Look Again was written throughout the winter of 2012-13 for Ensemble Paramirabo and premiered at Winnipeg Manitoba's acclaimed Cluster Music Festival (March 2013).

Program Note:
Look Again was written amidst a series of milestones events, which effectively bookended an era of my life. During this period, I perceived how disorienting change can be, especially when it’s unexpected or not wholly welcome. I realize- through our own resilience- we manage to adjust, but the immediate onset of change can be dizzying. I could not help incessantly looking back to that former reality, which I had come to identify with so comfortably. Look Again is an homage to that line of retrospection.
This piece comprises a progression of 5 chords that are transposed in three different ways over the course of the piece. This progression is sectioned into three repetitive fragments.

Look Again (2013), Ensemble Paramirabo

Pierre Jalbert - Sonata for Marimba, Mvmt. IV

Updated audio mock-up of my 2019 composition 'Borrowed Reality.'
Program note:
Borrowed Reality (2019) is a duet for marimba and vibraphone based off of rumba columbia rhythms, specifically as transcribed from "Blasfemadores" by Clave y Guaguancó, and a toque for the santerían orisha (deity) Obatala from the batá oru seco. Both of these sources are based in clave africana, the rhythm which starts the piece. As the composer, and borrower of these rhythms, I am not religious, but have used material based in religious practices. Through belief in religion, spirituality, science, culture, or any other discipline, we find ourselves understanding reality in ways which don't coincide with alternate beliefs. Yet as musicians, we often perform and study music rooted in belief systems incompatible with our own, and genuinely enjoy them. This piece functions as a door to an alternate belief system. It entices the listener and challenges the performers to enter a new world, evoking a temporary new reality.
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Borrowed Reality - midi mock-up

Basic Research 2 (premiere)

The Bon Odori is a dance that people do in Japan during the Obon Festival, a festival that welcomes back the spirits of their dead ancestors.  This piece depicts the awakening of the spirits, fearful at first, but ultimately at peace as they see their descendants again.
This piece is for tank drum (e minor pentatonic) and electronics.

Bon Odori

Composed for the 2015 Nief Norf festival.
Violin-Sarah Compton 
Viola- Amanda Smith 
Cello- Hannah Mayer
Bass- Frank Meadows
Percussion- Abby Fisher

Madness and Motion of Heavenly Bodies

I. isn't funny
II. silken bunny
III. to see

From Erin Graham: 
"silken bunny and other tales of woe was inspired by a certain genre of self-indulgent, over-dramatized writing which appears under the guise of “vulnerability”. I often think about the act of composing and its potential to turn into precisely the same phenomenon. In this case, it occurred to me while I was searching for solutions to an unexpected output. When I began sketching ideas for silken bunny, I found it surprisingly difficult to escape a certain kind of diatonicism which often leads to clichés from popular music. This sort of musical language corresponds nicely with the aforementioned literature; they both exhibit a sort of amusing superficiality. As it didn’t seem that I could escape this language in writing silken bunny, I tried to work with my ideas to give them a sense of self-awareness. The result is three contrasting, highly tonal movements, each with a degree of snideness."

silken  bunny and other tales of woe- Erin Graham

Limbic resonance can be described as “a symphony of mutual and internal adaptation.” The premise that humans will subconsciously synchronize with others closest to them is explored quite literally here, as musicians gradually move out of hocket to new mechanisms within their instrument families, and then ultimately create uniformity across the ensemble. Each section of this piece is modeled after one facet of a sound amplitude envelope, or ADSR (Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release) and altogether displays a transition from non-pitched sound to wholly sympathetic vibration.

This piece was written for and premiered by the NYU Contemporary Music Ensemble.

limbic resonance

The single from the upcoming release - The Cold Sun EP

Music composed by Jonathan Rodriguez

Trumpet - Ryan Montaño
Tenor Saxophone - Zuky Au
Guitar - Claudio Tolousse
Upright Bass - Matthew Jaeger
Drums - Jonathan Rodriguez

Music composed by Jonathan Rodriguez
Executive Producer Ryan Montaño

Avenida Gee

2018 PASIC Clinician and Presenter and Birmingham Conservatory (U.K) Master’s Student Gloria Yehilevsky talks about her (then) upcoming PASIC presentations (03:30), growing up in San Diego and Belgium (21:30), drum corps years and doing her undergrad at Morehead State (KY) (40:45), the World Percussion Group tour in 2017 (59:00), and goes all in on the Random Ass Questions (01:19:05).

Finishing with a Rave on the classic movie Good Will Hunting (01:52:15).

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Borrowed Reality - midi mock-up

Gloria Yehilevsky

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