"Psychopomp" by Paul Castles for solo recorder player (alto, soprano, tenor recorder). This piece doesn't use many extended techniques employed in a lot of contemporary recorder pieces, but Paul did want to include an interesting playing technique...playing 2 recorders at once! It certainly tests the performers coordination. 

Psychopomp

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Sapa, Vietnam; Daniel Goldaracena Book of sound.

I’m not afraid of your hate
Your distain

Your constant blame
The worry from before is no more

Dropping those things from my past
That would have me believe they 

Were me
Were my identity

Were my make up
Were, my destiny

I’m okay if you hate me
You don’t have to like me

I don’t need you to accept me
Or give me attention

Or demonstrate your love
Because I already do that

For myself
And when I am that

That recognition of love
I am that for you

And I don’t need to 
Demonstrate that

Show you
Tell you

Prove to you
Because it’s already happening

When something is already happening
There is nothing to get

There’s nothing to convince
There’s no choice in the matter

It already is
And I’m fine with that

So go ahead and hate me if you need to do that
I don’t wish it for you

But if it somehow helps you move through your pain
To help you recognize yourself

Hate me more
Twist It 

Bring it on
Because, this fear that was

Is dropping.


Not Afraid Of Your Hate

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amor azul sera
Mi mar es Luz
aroma de su soñar azul"

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"Soñar azul"

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Tadow (Featuring FKJ)

Electroacoustic study with granulation and LFO.

Music composed for the short film "Interior. Noche" - dir. Soledad Violeta.

Available at: https://www.yauala.mx/no-6-interior-noche

Inside Out Beach - Electroacoustic Study III

Keith Fullerton Whitman “En la Parc de la Ciutadella”

TRAN

We Shall Never Surrender is the first original work I've published since I was around 12-14 years old (that was a pretty easy piano ragtime piano piece I submitted to a competition with a lot of help from my piano teacher at the time).  Since that age I had been focused mostly on relatively strict interpretation of classical piano music.

If there is enough interest I would publish a score but not for free since it would be a lot of work to put together since it would require figuring out how to do a lot of non-traditional notation.

(By the way the picture is of my lab-mix Ace. I got him from the Humane Society of ATL about a year ago. Was looking at buying that tract of land since it was zoned as ag-res property but it would have taken all my savings so I decided to find other living arrangements.)

I'm a piano performance undergraduate at Georgia State University. Would by no means call the production on this track polished. However I've pretty much only performed recorded and performed classical piano pieces by other composers, so glad to finally put out something original.

The one "vocal performance" is a sound bite from the famous speech from Winston Churchill from WWII. There have been some personal music experiments leading up to publishing this, and in general I have liked including small sound bites from these kinds of speeches because it's  a cheap way to add tension to my music, since those words are loaded with historical and emotional significance. Also an added plus is it's in the public domain. Would love to sample classic hiphop, rock, ect but don't want to hire a lawyer or spend extra $$$ on that right now.

The piano ostinato (what you hear before the snapping comes in) actually would require two pianos if I were to perform this live. And then obviously the other piano parts has a crap-ton on post processing effects, mostly reverb since recording a piano is difficult and I need to invest in some better microphones/audio interface for that. I actually recorded that part with the built in microphone on my laptop.

Speaking of the snapping, I did that because the ostinato is actually a sample 

Will need to figure out how to perform live considering the piano part has a lot of processing. Probably would require some audio programming.

This work/song/track is short, less than a minute. The hope is to eventually release an album distributed through DistroKid so I can have my music on Spotify/Apple Music. Since it's the first original music I've published, I might in 3 months or a relatively short period of time not think it's quality enough to publish. But if I do, the plan is to publish it almost like Chopin's Op. 28 Preludes or J Dilla's Donuts. These may not seem to have much in common but they are both collections of relatively shorter works. Donuts is 31 tracks, all around 1 minute 30 seconds. Yuja Wang's performance of Chopin's 24 preludes is 38 minutes, so again that's approximately 1 minute 30 seconds. 

There's 3 reasons why I want to have the album this way:

1) For me, It's actually very difficult to finish a longer work. I might have some inspiration for some little idea. But if you look at a longer work like a sonata or a concerto, well you have to take that little idea and develop it, maybe change the key. That's the hard work for me. But I'll look to tackle that challenge at some point later.

2) People these days have short as hell attention spans (including me). This means more $$$ for shorter tracks versus trying to publish a track that is 10, 20, or 30 minutes like a lot of classical music recordings.

3) Spotify/Apple Music/ect all calculate stream counts by a listener listening to a track for a minimum of 30-45 seconds (something in that range). So if you think about it, everything after that is a waste in a way, since you could move on to another track and get another stream count, which equals more $$$.

We Shall Never Surrender

750 Héctor Murrieta 120720

https://hectormurrieta.bandcamp.com/

Discography: 

"Of City Blurs", music by H. Murrieta - 11 tracks, songs about love, rage, hope, loneliness, companionship, abandonment. 

"De Oriente a Occidente: musica del siglo XX": "3 pieces for guitar" by C. Chavez, "All in Twilight" by T. Takemitsu, "Preludios Epigramaticos" by L. Brouwer & "5 Preludios" by H. Villa-Lobos. 

"Entre Senderos" includes "Homenaje a Debussy" by M. de Falla, "4 pieces breves" by F. Martin, "Suite for guitar Op. 164" by E. Krenek, "Sarabande" by F. Poulenc, "In the woods" by T. Takemitsu & "5 bagatelles" by W. Walton.

"Ascension: musica del barroco" includes Suite in E minor BWV 996, Suite in D major BWV 998, Suite in A minor BWV 995 by J.S. Bach & Sonata #1 by A. Falckenhagen.

All or individual tracks available through iTunes, AmazonMP3, CDbaby, Napster, etcetc.

"Soñar azul"

Hector Murrieta

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