Name: Hotel (MIDI) by Daniel Moore
Duration: 7 min 30 s
Description: a MIDI realization of my chamber ensemble arrangement of Tori Amos's song Hotel. Some of the subtle timing near the end doesn't play nice with the DAW, but this is a rough idea of the piece.

a MIDI realization of my chamber ensemble arrangement of Tori Amos's song Hotel. Some of the subtle timing near the end doesn't play nice with the DAW, but this is a rough idea of the piece.

Hotel (MIDI)

Parasol

This was performed and recorded at the Wintergreen Summer Music Festival by the very talented Aurelius String Quartet on August 2nd, 2016.

Graffiti for Idealists

There are three sinks in the men's restroom at The Pub at Overcup Oak.
The first two faucets sound like typical faucets.
But the third faucet has a beautiful singing voice.

The Pub Faucet Melody

This piece, written for solo piano, is about symmetrical auditory reflections and playing with their sound.

I got the pitch material in this piece from a palindromic, 7-note scale. This scale is used in two specific transpositions at the piano (key centers D and G#), both of which have visual palindromic symmetry to match their auditory symmetry. The melodic motifs in this piece were written in accord with this concept and are often mirror images of one another. The overall structure/form of the piece also conforms to this theme, as it too is roughly palindromic. 

Performers:
Piano - Spencer Channell

Scales used:
[D, Eb, F#, G, A, Bb, C#]
[G#, A, B#, C#, D#, E, F𝄪]

FUN FACT: The combined pitches of these two scales—the tonics of which are a tritone apart—only comprise 10 out of the 12 total chromatic pitches. The residual two pitches, F and B natural (also a tritone apart), appear in the penultimate rising phrase of the piece, completing the aggregate of all 12.

[Written summer of 2016, performed December of 2016]

Mirrors

This piece is part of a collaborative project with visual artist Hannah Klepper, originally premiered at the Cohen Memorial Hall Art Gallery in conjunction with a Dadaist exhibition of artwork. 

See the accompanying images here: http://eternalhum.weebly.com/

The Eternal Hum Of The Universe

Patricks On Parade!

Silhouette, The second movement of Pentachrome, for woodwind quintet, composed by Sean William Calhoun, played by the Tennessee Valley Woodwind Quintet — Carolyn Treybig, flute; Jen Case, oboe; Andy Hudson, clarinets; John Gattis, horn; Gabriel Beavers, bassoon.

Hotel (MIDI)

Daniel Moore

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