This is a Finale realization of an exploration of musical textures.

Etude In Colors

Drums - Vince Caiafa, Bass - Bob Brown, Guitar - Joseph Armetta
We were The Oppenheimer trio Project
Bob and Vince were gracious enough to allow me to subject them to my arrangement of Strawberry Fields and I am the Walrus.

I Am The Strawberry Walrus Sitting In The Fields Forever

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Brandon Falls up the staircase

Another homage to FZ. The "hero" in this brief allegorical tale is the name sake but certainly not FZ. The "hero" of this tale is enticed to attempt to ascend the social dance arena in 4/4 but fails miserably. He however becomes transfixed to the siren call of the angel of 5/4.

Frank In Dacron Hits The Dance Floor For The First Time

This is an older tune I wrote and recorded featuring Alan Heltzel on piano at his studio in southern Colorado. It's an attempt to mimic the feel of King Crimson's "I Talk To The Wind".

Washed Away - 8:30:23, 8.50 AM

This is a realization of this string quartet based on a Vivaldi string concerto and the usage of the seventh in the Beatles, Please Please Me and Stevie Wonder's, Sign Sealed Delivered. I hope to see what it sounds like with an actual string quartet.

Quartet In A Major 1stMvt

True to form, the second movement of a Vivaldi string concerto is slow with a solo violin in the top voice.

Quartet In A 2nd Mvt

This last movement is the faster of the movements, also true to form of the Baroque string concerto structure.

Quartet In A 3rd Mvt

This was a composition to explore using non-musical sounds. It was inspired by some of the techniques used by Varese, NIN, Marilyn Manson and the music from the original Matrix movie. The main riff was the first sound out of the box on the KORG Triton. I liked it so much that I decided to use it. This is all MIDI with samples. Composed and performed by me.

Cold fusion

This is all midi. It was written for a movie chase scene. I used Bernard Herman as a model. Perhaps it was North by Northwest.

Orchestrachase

This is a short 12 tone piece as an homage to Frank Zappa in the style of Anton Webern.

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