For euphonium and fixed media.  Featuring Matt Fountain on euphonium.

Ascension

The music for THE UNPURGED IMAGES OF THE DAY is constructed in seven sections played without pause.  Each section takes its inspiration from a line or snippet of poetry of William Butler Yeats:
I.	…of hammered gold and gold enameling…  (Sailing to Byzantium)
II.	 …the ecstatic waters laugh…  (News for the Delphic Oracle)
III.	  …caught in the cold snows of a dream…  (The Road at my Door)
IV.	  …caught in that sensual music…  (Sailing to Byzantium)
V.	 …in pity for man’s darkening thought…  (Two Songs from a Play)
VI.	  …the brute blood of the air…  (Leda and the Swan)
VII.  …in glory of changeless metal…  (Byzantium)

These fragments of texts provided both sonic imagery for each section and a shape for the flow of intensity of the piece as a whole.  Also, several of the bits of text seemed to speak of characteristic sounds of the trombone and piano (“hammered gold”, “changeless metal”).  Hence there is no specific story depicted by the music; rather the sound world and the flow of musical events is shaped, in a more general way, by the images and associations that seemed to flow through the words.  The title is also from a Yeats poem (Byzantium).  The electronic sounds are all derived from the trombone (and trumpet in a few places), the piano, the human voice, and the bicycle.  Hence the sound world is largely homogeneous, and the effect might be thought of as a meta-ensemble (or perhaps of a duo of the future with cyber-enhancements).  At times it may be difficult to tell who (or what) is producing the sounds of the moment.

This recording features friends and colleagues JoDee Davis, trombone and Robert Pherigo, piano.

The Unpurged Images Of The Day

A production cue I scored to a trailer for the 2007 film Sunshine. Guitar, Euphonium, and Drums performed and recorded by myself at Feirstein Studios in NY.

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sheet music:
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Ascension

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