Muse Demo

Spread culminates a long process of compositional exploration for me. Much of the material has been created through algorithms guided by intuition to meet intuited aesthetic goals in the compositional process, specifically the vertical expansion or compression of harmonic and rhythmic materials. The challenge has been to create an organic flow, one that walks a line between the outpouring of musical texture and expression of melodic material. Harnessing tension, release, and subtle, nuanced changes of emotional tones, Spread represents the first movement in a series of envisioned works manipulating harmonic material in similar ways.     www.bradrobin.com. https://www.universaledition.com/bradley-robin-8356/works/spread-34462

Spread for piano

Shimmer is the sequel to Spread. I take favorite moments from Spread and transform between them, providing musical commentary as desired. I love this piece; I wrote it while in Vienna in August of 2022 when I came to perform at the Golden Key Piano Composition Competition Awards ceremony at Ehrbar Hall. It was then that I fell in love with Vienna, and had the vision to join Universal Edition.

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Shimmer

Spatter for orchestra was originally conceived as "Fractured Fragments,"  a piece for piano, drumset, and fixed media. Since, the materials have been reorganized for orchestra, creating a new realization. Though certain fundamental structural elements have remained the same, what was previously the fixed media has in some cases been transcribed, rethought, or eliminated entirely. What remains is the beginning of a new thread - woven into a new fabric, Spatter.
The original piece, "Fractured Fragments," can be heard at: https://soundcloud.com/bradbard/fractured-fragments

Brad Robin Spatter

commissioned by Taylor Barbay Assad : https://www.taylorassad.com/ 
performances: 
New Music DePaul, Chicago, IL,  5.8.2018 
North American Saxophone Alliance, University of Cincinnati, OH, 3.8.2018

Torrents Mastered 2022

Becoming

Videos of the dancers and background are controlled by the attacks of the piano, whereby MIDI is routed through Max/MSP/Jitter patch controlling the playback region. Sounds were recorded by exploring the inside of a grand piano then granulated using software I created through Max/MSP.  Final production was done in Logic. Source videos were produced by Tami Herbst and Sarah Joyce Church, the latter whom performed with me the first act of Becoming at the 2019 International Computer Music Conference 2019 at NYU, and the first and second acts at the Oh My Ears festival in Phoenix. Mommification  is the third act in the multi-movement interdisciplinary work Becoming for live piano, voice, and dance, with pre-produced immersive audio and video.

Mommification

Emergence

Feb 08, 2015 Baumer String Quartet

Jazzzforstrings

Chakra

Henriet Fourie live at De Paul University  

Voices

Performed at Ecos Urbanos Mexico City, 11.23.2017

Consumption explores various means of transformation beginning with the creation of a sound object, giving it life and eventually situational mobility,  meaning the ability to transcend its environment or setting.  With this in mind, the piece provides a narrative on human instincts - an insatiable hunger for more that can drive humanity to satisfy its instincts, recklessly without wisdom, seeking satiation and bliss.

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