Text by Pania Papa
Rowena Simpson, Soprano
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Hamish McKeich
Recorded by Radio New Zealand Concert at the Michael Fowler Centre as part of the 2015 SOUNZ-NZSO-RNZC-Recordings
Commissioned by Rowan Johnston, Mark Bennett and Westlake Girls High School. First performed by Michaela Cadwgan and the Westlake Chamber Orchestra. 

Tiaho Mai

Sergei Rachmaninoff plays his Etude Tableaux Op.39 No.4, on Ampico 69593.
Re-recorded in 2016 by VViljanen (by permission)from the digitized copy of the original reproducing piano roll with virtual Grand Bluethner Model One, tone/sound modified/designed by VV.
COMMERCIAL USE PROHIBITED. 
Basic info of the original piano roll:
ETUDE TABLEAUX (PICTURE STUDY) Op. 39, No. 4, B minor
Roll Number: 69593, 69593H
Composer/Creator: Rachmaninoff
Pianist: Rachmaninoff
Roll System: Ampico
Country: US
Date: February, 1929
Category: classical
Original Price: $2.00

Rachmaninoff: Etude Tableau Op. 39 No. 4, Sergei Rachmaninoff on Ampico 69593

Everywhere I'm Happy

Commissioned by the SEC Band Directors Association
I've always wanted to write an "easy piece" for winds that explored the kind of long lines and introspective expression I tend to work with in the majority of my music. When this commission came along, the partners and I were excited at the notion of creating something in that vein for the many great high school and middle school groups as well as for the second and third bands at the fabulous universities across the southeastern united states. 
It was with that in mind that wrote My Eyes are Full of Shadow.

"My eyes are full of shadow, and my part
Of life is yesterday."
—Edith Nesbit
I've always been a person prone to melancholy. My mother used to say that I had periods of sadness interrupted by periods where I was happy about being sad.
As an adult, I've learned to be contented in these low periods and in those moments I seek out the healing power of music and poetry. Edith Nesbit's "Age to Youth," from which this work's title is taken, describes looking back on a moment of pain in the past and an inability—an unwillingness?—to move beyond it.
Finding this poem brought me great joy in connecting to its sadness.
My Eyes Are Full of Shadow opens with an optimism of a new day but as the cadences are consistently left largely unfulfilled, we realize something is amiss.
Each attempted restart of the opening results in another aborted cadence and now they are frequently interrupted by a simple, sad chaconne. Reflecting the poem's insistence on living in the past, this interrupting chaconne grows more insistent and eventually gives way to a return to the opening but now colored by the assertions of the chaconne.
My Eyes are Full of Shadow was commissioned by the SEC Band Directors Association for its members.

This is a live performance from the Palmetto Concert Band with Cormac Cannon conducting.
Find out more at joelpuckett.com

My Eyes are Full of Shadow (Premiere)

January 25, 2016

I finished writing this Brazilian choro serenata in April 2017. It has traditional choro form, but also a heavy dose of Debussy. Fun fact: it contains chord roots from all 12 notes in the chromatic scale - I couldn't stop it from modulating all over the place! 

Performed June 4, 2017 on a composition recital at MacPhail Center for Music, Antonello Hall.

Anelante (Wistful/Wishful)

So, I got some new virtual instrument softwares on Black Friday (I didn't leave the house PS) and got a chance to use them for the Ludum Dare 40 Game Jam!

Pixel Forest (named after the fact) was my first attempt at music for our game. Turned out a little too happy and "foresty" for our game (very grateful to have a team who is honest and will speak up when their BS meter goes in the red), but that doesn't mean you can't enjoy this silly little chippy tune :)

Full story at thosewhomakesound.com

Pixel Forest

Experiment

"Sub.mission presents Agency Showcase: Ternion Sound, Dillard, Sortof Vague" June 22nd 2018

Tracklisting: https://youtu.be/AXNLaXmfHv0

Still shaking (probably because of the bass) over the opportunity to headline The Black Box with homies Dillard & Sortof Vague. We wrote a bunch of VIPs, Bootlegs, and Tunes just for this show and playing them for Denver was so so so worth the effort!

Huge shoutouts to Nicole, Max, Sub.Mission, and everyone who came out to see us play!👊👊👊

TRACKLISTING

Live at The Black Box (JUN2018)

Clarinet Quartet in D Minor

"Change Come" explores the power that we have in choice as we face never-before seen challenges both personally and collectively. 

Lyrics available below and on Genius

"Change Come

Hook (Mama Rose)
Daddy told me I should sleep with the lights on.
Mommy told me she just wants a beat she can cry on.
Daddy said to keep a dream alive I can die on.
Mommy said this is the change come.

Daddy told me I should sleep with the lights on.
Mommy told me she just wants a beat she can cry on.
Daddy said to keep a dream alive I can die on.
Mommy said this is the change come, now.

Verse (Mama Rose)
How ya gonna do all of the things you were gonna do?
Runnin' through the plays of all the days you were runnin' through.
Now you gotta whole lotta pain and don't know what to do
Can't wash it away and it stains and now it's showin' through. 
Now you gotta whole lotta friends that don't know none of you.
Now you got a whole lotta friends. 
Now you got a whole lotta friends. 
Now you got a whole lotta friends. 
Holy hearts and holy hands can't touch one another when we're stuck under this travel ban.
Got this martial law upon us, gonna leave my house regardless. 
I am one with dirt and water.
Holy children, Holy Father, Holy Mother. 
I think that I'm prayin' harder.
Cryin' out for all the right reasons now.
Gotta use my voice to guide freedom now.
Got a new song for each season now.
Gotta get off of my knees somehow.

Hook (Mama Rose)
Daddy told me I should sleep with the lights on.
Mommy told me she just wants a beat she can cry on.
Daddy said to keep a dream alive I can die on.
Mommy said this is the change come.

Daddy told me I should sleep with the lights on.
Mommy told me she just wants a beat she can cry on.
Daddy said to keep a dream alive I can die on.
Mommy said this is the change come, now.

Verse (Tomtom)
Bow, I am not a ruler.
Meet a leader, they'll fool ya.
They all feindin’ Kamasutra.
Kilometers far from saint but I'm still inchin’ toward the gates.
Milestones for me are marked by folks I've passed
Some truth in hopes to break the fall.
Catchem all, ashes fade, catch a virus.
Asked to stay contained I guess this ain't a game.
Division forced by fear of plague.
Collisions forged by pure intent 
to peg the hand responsible for fear of death.
My momma told me do your best 
to lift the Veil on your head.
The vile spread you better fend for family.
My father said, “I gave you life right, play your dice right, break your night light, stay in bed.”
Chase those dreams might take a life time choose the right guide til the end.
And never bend that knee.

(Mama Rose)
Bow to no ruler that doesn't come from within. 
You are a million years of ancestors. Wisdom in skin. Reminders in my pen. 

Hook (Mama Rose)
Daddy told me I should sleep with the lights on.
Mommy told me she just wants a beat she can cry on.
Daddy said to keep a dream alive I can die on.
Mommy said this is the change come.

Daddy told me I should sleep with the lights on.
Mommy told me she just wants a beat she can cry on.
Daddy said to keep a dream alive I can die on.
Mommy said this is the change come, now."


Vocals: Mama Rose and Tomtom
Instrumentation - Electric  Guitar: Tomtom
Production: Ackronem

Special thanks to Kevin Moore and Nassim Haramein for the vocal sample by Nassim Haramein from "Physics of Spirituality and Channeling Nassim Haramein" Episode 18 "They Call us Channelers" of "The Moore Show" which can be found on YouTube.

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@ackronem
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Change Come

Change Come - Mama Rose & TomTom prod by Ackronem

Bryan Schumann is an award winning composer and singer/songwriter based in St. Paul, MN. An eclectic composer, Bryan embraces an immense spectrum of genres and styles while writing songs and creating music and sound design for video games, film, meditation, and the concert hall.

Bryan's music (sheet music & audio) is available for purchase at www.bryanschumann.com

Pixel Forest

Bryan Schumann

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