An abstract imagination of a lush, broken music box.

Performed by SONAR New Music Ensemble and conducted by Courtney Orlando.

Decadent Music Box (2013)

This is the main theme to a sci-fi/RTS game called "The Quantum Principle" created by the very talented Tim Vanhoucke. Check out his amazing work here: http://www.quantumgamestudio.com/

 
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The Quantum Principle Main Theme  (Sci-Fi)

Magayon means “beautiful” in the Bicol language of the Philippines, and it forms part of the name of Daragang Magayon—literally “beautiful maiden”—the central character in the origin myth of Mount Mayon, an active volcano that overlooks my birthplace: the Philippine province of Albay. According to the myth, Magayon, having previously rejected many powerful suitors from distant villages, was set to marry the chieftain Ulap. But as preparations began for a grand, festive wedding, the jealous hunter Pagtuga intervened, holding Magayon’s father hostage and setting off a brief but deadly skirmish.

When all of the main characters died—most tragically Magayon herself, who was hit by a stray arrow—the entire village went from celebratory anticipation of the wedding to mourning. The maiden was laid to rest on a grave next to her husband-to-be, which the villagers were alarmed to find rising higher and higher each day, accompanied by earthquakes and muffled rumblings of the earth. At last a crater formed, spewing hot ash and rocks.

My piece is concerned less with depicting the myth in its entirety and more with the emotional journey that the story evokes. I kept in mind Mount Mayon’s near-perfect cone in shaping the piece: its three sections (fast–slow–fast) are of roughly equal length and form an almost symmetrical arc, flowing seamlessly from one to the next. I also place less emphasis on the tragedy of the myth, and more on my own sense of wonder toward the mythology of my home country; hence, the piece, though brutal at times, ultimately comes to a triumphant close.


Magayon (Juilliard Orchestra)

"Kaman Fantasy" (2014) for violin and piano, by Saad Haddad

Perusal Score, Program Notes, and Purchase Information: http://www.saadnhaddad.com/kaman-fantasy-for-violin-and-piano.html

Ambra Casonato, violin; Ava Nazar, piano; Nathan Prillaman, audio engineer
http://ambracasonato.com/
http://www.avanazar.com/
http://nathanprillaman.com/

Kaman Fantasy (version for violin and piano) [studio recording]

Pronto Movement 1

Staatsorchesters Stuttgart
Evgeny Popov, violin I; Christian Frey, violin II; Thomas Gehring, viola; Philipp Körner, cello; Manuel Schattel, contrabass

Commissioned by the Stuttgart Ballet, and scheduled for seven performances throughout the 2017-2018 season, "Even in the Oddest Times" is a piece dedicated to the choreographer, Fabio Adorisio. Through moments of clarity and calm in a persistently entropic, calamitous turbulence, this work illustrates the sense of direction and purpose one seeks in a personal odyssey. Elements such as extreme dynamism, irregular pulse changes, and varied texture are manipulated to capture the arbitrary, unforeseeable flow of emotions and events, whether it is absolute tranquility or utter chaos. Inevitably and repeatedly being plunged into states of disorienting confusion, then unmistakable lucidity, the listener must dance with a continual realism as the piece reaches a provocative, perhaps metaphorically temporary denouement.

Magayon (Juilliard Orchestra)

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