NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139... Original Soundtrack

[D3] 14. Kainé / Escape - NieR Replicant ver. 1.22 OST

NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139... Special Soundtrack

3. Kainé - Another Edit Version - NieR Replicant ver. 1.22 OST

6. Emil - Another Edit Version - NieR Replicant ver. 1.22 OST

8. Song of the Ancients - Another Edit Version - NieR Replicant ver. 1.22 OST

[D2] 1. Kainé - Weiss Edition Arrangement - NieR Replicant ver. 1.22 OST

[D2] 5. Song of the Ancients - Weiss Edition Arrangement - NieR Replicant ver. 1.22 OST

Realm of Lies V.2

Premiered by Now Hear This ensemble on 12/11. 
Quinton Folks conducting.

“I was thinking about the idea of our real selves or some deep version of ourselves not being represented in language. I always feel it most extremely at a dinner parties, you know everybody’s talking... and you have this deep despair that you’re entirely unrepresented as a self at this dinner party, and it’s like a primal scream that goes on inside. But when you have children, I just become very aware that you are part of the original sin. You’re creating language for them, you help them make it, and you see this kind of wild thing become a citizen, a person.”
            – Zadie Smith

Original Sin

Rails On Red Skylines (Excerpt)

Completed August 30, 2020
Premiered May 6, 2022 by Osmo Vänskä and the Minnesota Orchestra as part of the 2022 Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute

Remember to Have Fun began its life as a mixed quintet written for conductor Matthew Jenkins Jaroszewicz. Started in the midst of an existential funk early 2020, the piece was intended to remind myself that I should, in all things musical, have fun. After all, the reason I had taken to music in the first place was because I had discovered in composing a wholly unique kind of fun that I could not find anywhere else. 

Cast in three continuous movements, Remember to Have Fun is best understood as a triptych recontextualizing a handful of simple motifs into three different kinds of fun: I. ‘Master of None’ is overly excitable, interrupting and tripping over itself as it tries to decide where to go with its cellular, half-step dominated main idea. II. ‘Think About What You’ve Done’ picks up the pieces after its exhausted predecessor, initially introspective but growing, with a twinkle in its eye, increasingly quirky and mischievous. III. ‘Remember to Have Fun,’ spurred on by the music’s increased confidence, takes the first movement’s main idea and sprints at breakneck tempo toward a rip-roaring, frenetic finish. 

The majority of the work on this piece was completed during a particularly dour and sedentary year. With all the loneliness, anxiety, and pessimism floating about, I wanted to create a piece that would be characterized by the exact opposite of all those emotions. The piece’s prosaic title ends up being many things: a title, yes, but also a word of advice to the conductor, an expression marking for musicians, a reminder to myself as an artist, a small instruction for listeners, and maybe even a bit of hopeful inspiration for you, the reader.

Random Stuff

Remember to Have Fun, for symphony orchestra

Rails On Red Skylines (Excerpt)

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