Kòu was composed for Christopher Belt in the Spring of 2013. This work incorporates many of the different musical styles associated with the electric guitar and expands upon them. Since my first exposure to music as a child was listening to the radio when my parents were driving I found that the characteristics of that genre were already apart of my vocabulary. Using this as a point of departure enabled me to create very unique timbres and textures that work for and against the sound of guitar. Although a twelve-tone row was part of the initial compositional design the piece is not serial, rather pitches were chosen aesthetically and used almost thematically throughout the work.

Translations focuses on the struggles of communication across cultural boundaries and reflects on how commonplace behaviors in one culture are unacceptable in another. Through the course of the work a simple idea is broken down and restructured multiple times. Each time it is reassembled the idea is both recognizable and unfamiliar.

Translations

Help, Lord, for no one is faithful anymore;
those who are loyal have vanished from the human race.
Everyone lies to their neighbor;
they flatter with their lips
but harbor deception in their hearts.
May the Lord silence all flattering lips
and every boastful tongue—
those who say,
“By our tongues we will prevail;
our own lips will defend us—who is lord over us?”
“Because the poor are plundered and the needy groan,
I will now arise,” says the Lord.
“I will protect them from those who malign them.”
And the words of the Lord are flawless,
like silver purified in a crucible,
like gold refined seven times.
You, Lord, will keep the needy safe
and will protect us forever from the wicked,
who freely strut about
when what is vile is honored by the human race.

Psalm 12 (live)

Algorithmically generated midi trained with video game music from the Nintendo Entertainment System.

Vidja Gmae

In, on, and Around was created using the built-in metronome sounds in Logic Pro. Throughout the duration of the work this seemingly simple sound is manipulated through various filters and distortions to create unique timbres and textures.

In, on, and Around

Red Tape, Negative Space is an exploration of varying amounts of intuitive composition inside of a highly restrictive compositional system.

RED TAPE, NEGATIVE SPACE

I saw a Buzzfeed article that listed My Name Is by Eminem as one of the top songs used by the CIA to torture (interrogate) their prisoners. I imagine this is close to what it would sound like after hearing that song on repeat for days.

Torture Music

This is my contribution to the 2015 Bury the Flag project, it reflects upon the history of the confederate flag through using multiple source recordings of the song Dixie. While many views can be taken from the music, it was not written with any specific political leanings of any kind.

DixieRemix

Etude for Solo Microphone was composed in Pure Data. The sounds heard are produced from performing live dsp on audio feedback. This work is a reflection on the isolation created by our techno-centric society.

Etude For Solo Microphone

Skiptest

Jeremy Adams is an internationally recognized composer whose music has been performed throughout Europe and the United States. From works for large ensemble to solo works to electronic music, Adams’ works seek to incorporate modern compositional techniques into an idiom that relates to both the audience and performer. In June of 2013, Mr. Adams received his international debut when his fixed media piece, Synthetic Backdrops, was selected by the ARTos foundation for the First Annual Electronic Music Festival in Nicosia, Cyprus. Another recent work, ABACE, was premiered by the H2 quartet at the Paragraph Gallery in Kansas City, Missouri in October 2013. In 2011, Mr. Adams composed a work for the University of Central Florida’s wind ensemble; the resulting composition, And then there was Silence, was performed in the fall of 2011 under the direction of Dr. Scott Tobias. Mr. Adams’ compositions have also been featured at/performed by the 2013 INTIME symposium in Coventry, England, the dissonArt Ensemble (Greece), and the University of South Florida Percussion ensemble. Sheet music of Adams’ works is available internationally from Steele Press (ASCAP).
 

Currently, Mr. Adams is pursuing dual M.M. degrees in music composition and electronic music from the University of South Florida. Additional honors include the ASCAP Plus award which rewards writer members of all genres whose works were performed in unsurveyed media as well as writer members whose catalogs have prestige value, a teaching assistantship at the University of South Florida, and the University of Central Florida Wind Ensemble Composition Competition.

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