Sounds For Friends is my recital composition for the Spring 2021 semester. It was written for the titular friends, Jack Ford who plays clarinet, Sam Stein who plays viola, and Noah Reedy who plays saxophone. With myself on piano, we recorded this piece at the end of March, but it doesn't sound very good.

Sounds For Friends [MIDI]

Living In The Corner, for the album O Berlin!, is a song I started writing in the wake of the COVID shutdown. Its repeating chord progression is entirely based on a medieval-era song that I never performed because COVID cancelled that concert. The text is based on the idea of a neglected mind. When you don't use the gifts you're given and don't exercise your brain, the result is this dark and sometimes nonsensical rambling. Lastly, this song is written as a fusion of acoustic rock and classical music. One can imagine nonexistent guitar, bass, and drums accompanying the track.

Living In The Corner

This was my midterm composition for Electronic Music. I created the track with four instruments on Pro Tools, one of them being the theremin. The title comes from the names of the other three instruments, which all had a marine theme, and quadrophonic refers to the use of four instruments as drones.

Marine Quadrophonic Radar Test (Album Version?)

For my final in Electronic Music, I created this! I took all the tracks I'd accumulated throughout the course and distorted them using reverb, SansAmp, and BlueCat Flanger. The distorted audio gradually becomes various static samples, all taken from Freesound and distorted like the rest of the audio. The track ends with an undistorted dial-up recording from Freesound.

Chaos Theory (Album Version?)

One of my Electronic Music assignments was to include spoken or sung words in a track. So, I wrote this text and plugged some strings and a one-handed piano into Pro Tools and made this. It's not quite timed right. I intend to rerecord with proper timings and actual instruments. But for now, this sounds quite nice.

Requiem For A Dying Man (Incongruous Version)

A piece created for Culmination of Haas in spring of '22. I took four recordings of myself speaking and making various vocal sounds. The four recordings were mixed together for the final product. Because it sounds nowhere near my original idea for the piece, and because I realized the potential for this medium, this will hopefully be the first in a series of similar works.

Mutterances I

This short, simple string quartet piece was written for my Orchestration class on September 22nd. It's fairly standard classical chamber music, like something you'd hear at a 17th-century social gathering. Something that Mozart might write. The title is long but it states exactly the feeling I was going for. You can dance to it, listen to it, have it in the background, or ignore it entirely. Check it out!

Middle Movement Of A Non-Existent Chamber Suite

Steel Wood Wind Would is the second project I did for my Orchestration class. My professor praised this work for its variety of textures and the unique sound of the piece overall.

Steel Wood Wind Would

This was my third project for Orchestration in the Fall 2020 semester. I must have been very tired when I wrote it because I hardly remember doing so. Probably why the ending is so abrupt. The title is a reference to my first brass quintet piece , which is the only project I've ever abandoned. The score has an instruction which reads "The most experienced player begins by stating the title, as if there had been prior failed attempts, then counts in the ensemble."

Let's Get It Right This Time

Opus No. 44
This is a piece I wrote for Beginning Composition several semesters ago. It was my first time setting existing poetry to music. In this case, the text is a five line poem by Randall Jarrell. There are a few performance aspects that can't be heard on the MIDI, such as a keyboard explosion and whispered vocals.

The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner

I write music, mostly rock, classical, and avant-garde. Over 80 compositions in progress.

Evan Scott Rognholt

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