Spirpercul [part 2]

This is one of the dungeon tracks of the previous unreleased game Anthador.
I tried to create a desolate mood, referring to the desperation of the prisoners who have been captured or even died inside the dungeon's walls.

Ancient Dust

Far from Shore

Porcelain Tuesday

This is the 1st track to be released from the Able documentary soundtrack. I was lucky enough to co write and record the violin and string parts with Patrick Zelinski on a selection of the tracks he wrote for this documentary. 

Link to the Able Documentary...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfwYGa0epbM&t=457s

Music Video for the track here...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O66b-3xNemk

The Accident (Able soundtrack) - Patrick Zelinski & Ryan Dimmock

Selected to be published in the Vibraphone Project's Centennial Compendium of scores in early 2023, this is a computer generated performance.

A streaming version of this work with an accompanying image montage to help convey more vividly the story of this music is found on my YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y372ReVfhY0

I composed this work as an expression of deep concern for our planet and its people in the midst of the global warming impacts unfolding before our eyes. One local example of the devastating and rapidly unfolding impact of global warming is Indonesia and its capital Jakarta. So severe are the city’s infrastructure and health problems and so quickly is Jakarta sinking below sea level, the Indonesia government is in the process of moving its capital from the island of Java to the island of Borneo in a yet-to-be built city named Kalimantan. 

Jakarta has recently been identified as the fastest sinking city in the world due to the disastrous combination of depleting ground water from the aquifer beneath the city and global sea level rise due to global warming. With the growing urgent problem of supplying enough potable water to the city, the aquifer beneath the city is being over used and causing land of the northern area of Jakarta to sink below sea level. With the world’s rising sea levels compounding the problem and no coordinated effort to address solutions for these problems, parts this city could be completely submerged by the year 2050. 

It is with this image in mind of Jakarta sinking that I composed this music. The vibraphone has instrumental cousins in the metal xylophones of the Javanese gamelan orchestra and I take advantage of this in suggesting gamelan-like music at moments in this composition. The vibraphone’s fan vibrato is used sparingly for strategic moments to suggest a feeling of watery emersion. The over-all tessitura of the piece descends from its beginning through to a climatic cadence on a closely packed aggregate of pitches suggesting an F minor/major ninth chord (F, G, A-flat, C) on the lowest bars of the vibraphone. After this doleful sunken cadence, a coda softly rises from the depths of this cadential chord to convey a sense of hope.

My Heart With Jakarta Sinks In Rising Seas

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Emphalr

Time Train

Erverse

The Plead of Angels

I compose concert music including solo works, chamber music and orchestral pieces.

Far from Shore

Linda Catlin Smith