The Licc

Reading with the NEC Philharmonia on April 27, 2018. Conducted by Hugh Wolff.

Program note:
I started writing this piece during summer 2017, which was a time when I was playing full- time in a funk/rock band - going on tour, writing pop songs, and recording an album. I had a substantial amount of material before starting my first semester at the New England Conservatory, a time of rigorous course work, learning about new music, going to concerts, and listening to my peers. I almost wanted to ditch the material I wrote during the summer - it's not good enough, I told myself. My best friend at MIT introduced me to the term imposter syndrome, which is apparently a common feeling at MIT, a feeling based on self-doubt where you feel like you achieved things through luck or deceiving others. I couldn't help but think about that term too while at NEC. Instead of ditching the material, I decided to repurpose it to build a snapshot of this time period, representing a clashing of worlds and ideas and of my own self-doubt and anxieties. It has been a cathartic process. This may have become a quite post-modern piece

I was inspired by jazz/gospel musician Cory Henry who wrote a short catchy melody he affectionately calls "NaaNaaNaa" that he would sing to himself whenever he felt stressed or anxious. A few years ago, I wrote myself a short 4-measure melody for the same purpose. I use this short melody in this piece all throughout, but is constantly warping in tonal language or rhythm, until it presents itself in its most recognizable form in the middle of the piece and at the very end.

syndrome (2017) - for orchestra

wlk away again

Premiered by Matthew Shorten and John Henderson in Summer 2018

Toy Boat - by OCEAN VUONG
For Tamir Rice

yellow plastic
black sea

eye-shaped shard
on a darkened map

no shores now
to arrive — or
depart
no wind but
this waiting which
moves you

as if  the seconds
could be entered
& never left

toy boat — oarless
each wave
a green lamp
outlasted

toy boat
toy leaf  dropped
from a toy tree
waiting

waiting
as if the sp-
arrows
thinning above you
are not
already pierced
by their own names

Toy Boat (tenor voice and piano)

The new single from Rebekah Fitch
Released 26.10.18

Premiered by FAME Magazine.

Need To Feel

it's only taken me like two years to actually finish this lol

The new single from Rebekah Fitch.

Released Friday 22 Feb 2019.

Poison

Weird 3

Jumpmaster

Tranquil Forest (RPG Game Music)

Level designer by day, composer by night. Angus Macnaughton is a Guildford based game developer, open to commissions.

Tranquil Forest (RPG Game Music)

Angus Macnaughton

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