What if? for bass/baritone, bass clarinet, percussion, piano, double bass and female chorus

1.  Prelude - Jacob Rhodebeck, piano; Mark Gustavson, percussion 

2. Scene One - (midi realization) the cello is substituting for the solo baritone/bass.

Text for scene one
When I was a windy  boy and a bit
And the black spit of the chapel fold, 
(Sighed the old ram rod, dying of women),
I tiptoed shy in the gooseberry wood,
The rude owl cried like a tell-tale tit,
I skipped in a blush as the big girls rolled
Nine-pin down on donkey's common,
And on seesaw sunday nights I wooed
Whoever I would with my wicked eyes,
The whole of the moon I could love and leave
All the green leaved little weddings' wives
In the coal black bush and let them grieve.

Lament - Prelude and Scene One

What is my music? To compose music that is as wonderful as the first works of music I ever heard. I’m trying to create an experience that I call the “musical experience.”  Part of the creation of that effect is making something unexpected happen. It’s a combination of using sounds you think you understand, to create a result you know you don’t understand. I want to compose music that puts me in the position of innocence and recreate the feeling of innocence. Simply, I compose music I want to listen to.