Beautiful feelings evoked here... Love the violin! Really immersive piece, really evoking intergalactic travel 🚀💫

Nice chords. love the cello too. well done!

Gorgeous - you write for strings exceptionally well. Really beautiful piece.

I like it a lot. The beginning reminds me a lot of the music from Stargate.

Such a cinematic track! The strings, brass, drums...everything is so well done

Beautiful strings and a nice arrangement, well done!!

I love this the title fits the music bro🔥

Très belles harmonies, belles sonorités de cordes et orchestration grandiose. Bravo !

Love those borrowed chords a third apart!

Some people heard the original and wanted to hear some percussion to compliment the mix. So I delivered! Credit to my boi Nick Payne for the drum work!

Tasty Jam (with drums)

Deep Pools, Deep pools
Reflecting a perfect moon
In an empty sky
But where are the birds that fly
Why have they gone so soon

Deep Pool, deep pools
Reflecting the morning star
At the break of day
But how can it fade away
When it shines so far

Deep pools, the depths of those mystic eyes
Darker than midnight skies
Is where my love lies

Deep pools, I gaze into eternity
To where we will always be
Forever you and me

Deep Pools, deep pools
Reflecting the swaying tree
In the fading glow
Leaves falling like the autumn snow
Drifting endlessly

Deep pools, the depths of those mystic eyes
Darker than midnight skies
Is where my love lies

Deep pools, I gaze into eternity
To where we will always be
Forever you and me

Deep pools, in dark eyes
Falling so far below
From the world above
Capturing all my love
Surrounding all I know

Single (C)2021
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Lyrics, Instruments and Arrangement - Andrew Pickles
Vocals - Sumi (Sreyashi Mukherjee)

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14 Himalia

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a stroll in the rain

Burnout

www.soundcloud.com/ulv-orn-bjornsson. taking the lead here me on backing vox and bass.

Gone with The Birds (with The Fall of Saigon)

Road to home

Written: 2018-19
Duration: ca. 25'
Commissioned by J.K. Billman
Premiere: Euclid Quartet, Mostly Modern Festival, Arthur Zankel Music Center, June 25, 2019
Publisher: Bill Holab Music: http://www.billholabmusic.com
For more info.: https://robertpaterson.com/string-quartet-no-2

PROGRAM NOTES
In some ways, String Quartet No. 2 is similar to my String Quartet No. 1: the five movements are stylistically diverse, I use a few snippets of pre-existing music, and the music, while idiomatic, is technically demanding. As with my first quartet, this work explores technical and aesthetic ideas I didn’t have a chance to explore in other works.

The first movement, Colored Fields, is inspired by abstract expressionist painters such as Mark Rothko, Kenneth Noland, and Barnett Newman, but also pointillist painters such as Georges Seurat and Paul Signac. There are textures that emerge and submerge using articulations that gradually shift from soft to loud, or short to long, and there are a few transitions that utilize a technique I call pitch phasing or phase modulation, as opposed to tempo phasing. In these transitions, two or more instruments gradually modulate (raise or lower) notes, motives, or phrases by gradual, very refined, microtonal, non-chromatic increments, settling on new pitch areas that directly reflect the previous areas, just modulated up or town. The movement ends softly with a virtual desaturation of the rhythmic material. I remove notes, one by one, until there’s nothing left.

The second movement, Rigor Mortis, is inspired by a comic strip by David Lynch that newspapers ran for many years. In this strip, Lynch sketched a stressed-out, pitch-black dog, looking very mean and almost buzzing with anger; it looked like it was about to explode. Every strip began with an accompanying paragraph that read, “The dog who is so angry he cannot move. He cannot eat. He cannot sleep. He can just barely growl. Bound so tightly with tension and anger, he approaches the state of rigor mortis.” This made me envision musicians playing with such ferocity and tension that the music seems to eventually cancel itself out, anger imploding in on itself.

The third movement, Dolente, is sad, lush, and mournful. The only request I had when writing this quartet was to incorporate a Norwegian fiddle tune or theme by Edvard Grieg, so I chose themes from Grieg’s String Quartet No. 1. The form of this movement mimics the form of a song by Edvard Grieg’s entitled Spillemaend (Minstrels, or Fiddlers). The poem that Grieg set in 1876 as the first of Six Ibsen Songs (Op. 25) is based on the Norwegian folktale of the fossegrim, a male water spirit who could teach the art of violin-playing, but often at the price of personal happiness. In some versions of the story, the poor violinist drowns in the end. Like the song, and echoing the second movement, this movement beginning with the protagonist’s longing, his desire for the beloved. Next, he encounters the fossegrim, who promises that becoming a master of music will allow the protagonist to become master of his beloved. In the final stanza, the protagonist becomes a master fiddler, but he is now a cursed, wandering musician deprived of earthly love, so he drowns himself.

The humorous fourth movement, Scherzando, capitalizes on effects that at times, often make the string players sound inebriated. I make use of copious glissandi and tempos that fluctuate between 3/4 and 6/8, giving a sense of unease.

The final movement, Collage, is similar to the first movement in that it is inspired by the visual arts, and specifically, collage painting and works by surrealists. Many themes from the first four movements are brought together in this odd-metered movement.

String Quartet No. 2 commissioned by J. K. Billman and is written for and dedicated to the Euclid Quartet.

The Indianapolis Quartet: Robert Paterson - String Quartets 1-3

String Quartet No. 2 - III. Dolente

This is a project started so I could play with a few of my new toys.  In this piece you will find Albion One, Tina Guo Cellist, and the new Arkhis plugin from Native Instruments.  Really pleased with the outcome.  

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