The Kübler-Ross Model for string quartet, I. Anger

Eat With Your Eyes

Ride

Crystalline

Electroacoustic Percussion Duo for 2/4 Channels

Fantastic Adventures

Atari Punk is an electro-Acoustic work inspired by the sounds from the 8-bit era of video games. The electronic part is made entirely from a home built step-tone generator, also known as the Atari Punk Console. Musically, the work is a perpetual motion piece that explores the relationship between performers and fixed media as a means of exploring our own relationship with technology. 

The recording is from a live performance by FiveOne Experimental Orchestra at Ensemble Theatre on April 8th, 2016.

For Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Cello, Bass, Percussion, Piano, Electric Guitar, and Fixed Electronic Media.

Atari Punk (live)

Rule of Thirds is in reference to the rule of photography which simply states an image should be conceived as nine equal parts by two equally spaced horizontal lines and two equally spaced vertical lines, with important compositional elements placed along those divisions. Doing this forces the viewer to not focus on the center of the photograph but draws them into the composition of the picture. This piece is an attempt to replicate the rule of thirds musically, informing the overall design, linear aspects, and harmony of the piece. This work makes use of interactive electronics where the computer program listens and reacts to the performer, hence no two performances will ever truly be the same.

The emotional content of this work was inspired by my relationship with my father(an avid photographer), who stopped taking photographs after his tour of duty in Vietnam.

Rule of Thirds

Composer, Conductor, Digital Artist - Michael Bratt has received numerous honors including official selection at the Foro Internacional De Música Nueva Manuel Enríquez 2013, Composer/Fellow for the Canton Symphony Orchestra 2008-2009, regional finalist for the 2008 SCI Student Composer Commission, 2007 Verdehr Trio Composition Contest, honorable mention at the 2007 Minnesota Orchestra Institute, and the 2005 Bain Murray Composition Award among others. He has been commissioned by many organizations including The Cleveland Museum of Natural History, The Cleveland Clinic, The Cleveland Public Theatre, The Cleveland Shakespeare Festival, and others. An immense advocate and supporter of modern music, Dr. Bratt is the co-founder and Board Chair of FiveOne Experimental Orchestra, a Cleveland based new music ensemble. FiveOne Experimental Orchestra is one of sixteen organizations chosen nationally for a SEED grant by the Robert Rauschenberg Society and has been hailed as a "fascinating mix of musical styles," (Cleveland Classical). Dr. Bratt has taught at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, the Northeast Ohio branch of Indiana Wesleyan University, Ursinus College and is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Mary Washington where he teaches Music Composition and Technology.

Michael Bratt

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