This is just a small demo track like all music posted on here. I would eventually like to get a band if my music is well enough. Everything is recorded and written by myself. Thank you for listening and I hope that you enjoy! 

Poem of Red

Devoted

Armor

Sons amoureuses

Link to the score for purchase: https://abundantsilence.store/products/forest-rituals

This is the premiere recording of Forest Rituals, which won 3rd in the Abundant Silence Composition Competition and received its US premiere in Denver, CO in January 2018.

The piece received its world premiere at the 2016 Zodiac Music Academy and Festival in Valdeblore, France on July, 14th, 2016. 

The piece centers around the idea of a pagan ritual at the time of sunset and moonrise by the fire. It depicts the singing, dancing, and chanting, full of life, energy, and reverence. On a personal note: Forest Rituals represents something of a new beginning as well. This piece was a turning point in my own musical style which saw a great personal growth upon returning from France. 

Performers: Sonya Yeager-Meeks (flute), Richard von Foerster (cello), Josh Sawicki (piano) of the Playground Ensemble. Recorded at the Abundant Silence New Works Concert (January 27th, 2018.)

Forest Rituals- Playground Ensemble (Denver, 2018)

Live recording of solo violin piece as performed by Sueh Ono. Composed at Zae Munn Summer Intensive, 2017.

Question

This is my recording of the premiere performance of my solo opera scene, Last Box. The libretto was written by Aaron S. and Michael Ricucci-Hill. Caleb Wenzel, piano. Aaron S. Ricucci-Hill, countertenor. This piece was written for and performed at the Oregon Bach Festival Composers Symposium in Summer 2018.

Last Box- Aaryn S. Ricucci-Hill (Live)

New track I made for the 'Snare-Up' Discord community! I thought it'd be funny/weird to sing the namesake and build the track around that repeated phrase, so here's what it transformed into! This track will be the opener on an upcoming cassette (!) called 'Snare Snacks' being released by Chicago-based Deep Space Objects. Preorder link here:
https://deepspaceobjects.bandcamp.com/album/snare-snacks

Nodens

Both/And, for 2 singers and 2 percussionists. Premiered July 3, 2018 by Sarah Grace Graves, Andy Leggett (vocals) and Ian Jones and Kathie Hsieh (percussion) at Oregon Bach Festival Composers Symposium.

Program Note: This year I embarked on a deep exploration of my voice. My first step was to explore the infinite color possibilities attained through the manipulation of breath. There I encountered a side of my voice that I use often in day-to-day life, but rarely in singing: the extreme chest register. And as I have explored it I have come to love it and embrace it as my own. 

As many of my vocal pieces do, Both/And explores the extremes of the voice, but this time I focus on the voice’s depths rather than its heights. It is through exposing these depths, raw and unfiltered, that I seek to reclaim a natural, powerful, and tonally rich part of the voice.

Both/And

Revival is a maximalist experiment inspired by my experiences with several distinctly different denominations of the Christian church – particularly, the contrast between the “passion” for Christianity and its original call for serious personal reflection (you know, the call to be better human beings). The piece is initiated with the chaos found in many Pentecostal services – a cheap imitation Hammond B3 jams, the drummer drives with a constant beat, and a preacher howls within the cacophony (the preacher is represented by a repeated trumpet line that uses a plunger mute for a talking effect.) Every time this event dips in energy, one can hear the preacher ranting and raving. Initially, the effect of the trumpet’s “preaching” is intriguing, but like listening to someone talk about the same thing hours on end, it soon becomes exhausting. When the energy recedes, a harmony emerges, coated with dissonance – a chance for serious reflection that is dripping with unease. When the preacher begins preaching again, mania soon follows. Although this piece is based on Pentecostal sounds, it does not necessarily have to be about Christianity; it can be about blindly subscribing to passions that feel good while avoiding the underlying causes that were originally created to help make the world a better place (and to help make us better people.) – Celka Ojakangas, 2019

Revival

Oboe solo composed 2017. Mateo Mendez, oboe

Also available for clarinet and soprano saxophone

Bootstrapping

CHASING SUNLIGHT for solo piano. Original version composed by Cait Nishimura in 2016; arranged for piano by Brian Barber in 2020. Reference recording by Brian Barber.

For more information and to purchase a copy, please visit www.caitnishimura.com

Chasing Sunlight (solo piano)- Cait Nishimura x Brian Barber

Sacramento-based composer/countertenor/electronic artist.

Sons amoureuses

Andrew J Leggett

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