AmpleMen's "Umbrella Quartet" was devised in the process of instrument building which led to the creation of our instrument, the Redsolocupophone (see our two movement piece, "I Raise You Up," to see how it turned out).  The goal was to make music with household instruments.  Though where we ended up was somewhere entirely different, along the way we produced this: a quartet for four umbrellas.
This is a live recording.

Umbrella Quartet

There is just too much awful poetry out there.  We had to make a sequel piece!  This one, based on McGonagall's "The Tay Bridge Disaster," has some of the worst rhymes you will ever come across.
We will be performing the first Tragedy, based on the Marzials poem, live this coming Monday!  It will be AmpleMen's first live, concert performance!

A Tragedy 2: A Disaster (based on the Tay Bridge Disaster, text by William McGonagall)

One of our visiting guest artists joins us on trumpet to perform a new work, Fanfare By the Common Man! With this work, AmpleMen adds our entry into the esteemed and majestic genre of the fanfare. We hope you enjoy our brass stylings!

Fanfare By the Common Man - Single

Embrace the holiday spirit this year, with AmpleMen! This year, we share the gift of music to express our joy for the holidays. Accept this musical gift from us to you!

Jingle Postlude

Carol Of The Bells

Away

Silent Night - A Very John Cage Christmas

Quiet Night

Ding Dong - A Fantasy On A Christmas By Swearingen

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Jingle Prelude

We all know what it means to have "The Blues," plural. But what does it mean to have a Blue, singular? Just one blue? Our latest single strives to answer just that question, in a reductionist re-envisioning that brings hyper-minimalism to an American staple. Prepare to hear the Blues as you have never heard it before, and yet, as you have always heard it.

One Blue - Single

One Blue

We are Amplemen.
Our music is a contemporary redefinition of the possible, a diagnosis of societal strife in the key of innovation and Baroque masters.
10/1/2014

PAST:
We are AmpleMen. Our ongoing project is the "Good Pieces Not Worth Destroying Project", which began as a challenge to the statement that "Nothing created deserves to be destroyed."
We are John and Corey, with occasional guests artists joining us as well.

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