Overthinking - Sillythinking - dumb ideas  - FAB ideas - big messy funky plans mixing with mundane mediocracy.

Happy Friday

Made using field recordings and unused ideas for music I never made.

When Silly Thoughts Bump Heads

This is my saxophone quartet 'Roach' and it was composed during the initial lockdown of Spring/Summer 2020. This version was recorded [via multi-tracking!!] by my friend and excellent saxophonist Sam Gee.

The art is my own.

ROACH [for saxophone quartet]

Jerry's Trip to The Carnival

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/if-we-dont-find-love-tonight/id1062585458
The debut single from Barney Goodall & The NightHawks available on itunes. With thanks to Ocean Waves Productions

If We Don't Find Love Tonight

Barney Goodall & The NightHawks EP

Lost Boys Gone Midnight

Fire In My Heart

Written, recorded and produced by Joseph Mott
Additional instruments (organ, guitar) by Jack Lewis
Mastered by Pete Maher

Nirvana

Scored for six violins. A hybrid art form to accompany the Collage series by visual artist Louisa Chambers.

Collage, for six violins

Gaanam, the noun form of “singing” in Sanskrit, explores ways through which the treatment of the voice in Carnatic (South Indian classical) music can be incorporated into ensemble work. 
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I: The soloists’ alapanas (rhythmically-loose melodies) are rooted in idiomatic phrases of the raga, Kalyani (similar to the Lydian mode).
II: a few soprano and alto voices develop the alapanas of the soloists in the style of a vrittham (rhythmically-loose melodic phrases that set fragments of significant text). 
III: This helix continues while being punctuated by rhythmic syllables from the choir. The soloists then have the opportunity to sing of the power of music, but the rhythmic emphasis grows and eventually takes over, resulting in a recitation of the mora, a recognizable component of most Carnatic percussion solos. 
IV: In the aftermath of the bombastic mora, the choir ponders the concept of musical humility, culminating in a different kind of celebration.
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Text excerpted from poetry by legendary Carnatic composers Sri Thyagaraja and Sri Subramaniam Bharathi 

Conducted by Maestro Gabriel Crouch. Performed by the Princeton University Glee Club. Soloists: Sarah Kim Baber (soprano), Calvin Wentling (tenor), Eli Berman (bass)
Recorded live by Jim Allington in Richardson Auditorium, March 2018
Winner of the 4th ORTUS International New Music Competition 2020
ASCAP Morton Gould 2019 Finalist

Gaanam (2018)

composed by Martin Arnold (1992)
performed by Hemispheres (Nic Gotham - baritone sax solo)

Eyelids

RNCM's Brand New Orchestra performing the Symphonic Movement I wrote during my bachelors at RCS

Conducted by Omer Shteinhart

January 22nd, 2020

Symphonic Movement [2018] - Matthew Holmes

COMPOSER // DRUMMER // CONDUCTOR // ARRANGER

Currently studying Masters in Composition at RNCM.

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ROACH [for saxophone quartet]

Eden Longson // Musician

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