Name: underpass by matthewbrown
Duration: 3 min 20 s
Description: Words & music Copyright ©2021 by Matthew Brown. All rights reserved.

underpass

This track is from the album Though Love Be a Day and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/antiochchamberensemble1

A Red, Red Rose

City Of Thieves

An improvisationary reflection of moments of love: pleasure, pain, joy, sorrow, gain and moreso loss.

Thoughts of you.mp3

Calm, Ethereal, a journey into the realms of bliss.

3/ 10 / 2018

The Ambient Testament

This music is a salute to our warriors; the men and women in the service. The soldiers who give their lives for the lives of their country and its boarders. Men and women who give their lives for peace. Its is a depiction of the yearning for their coming,  a foreshadow of their home coming, in body and in spirit.

The Coming

This piece is the second piece of a set of Retrospections I intend to write over the course of my life. This piece's vast array of subject matter includes the events of the last few months, traditionalism, Romanticism, beauty, peace over conflict, and God's love as depicted in Isaiah 43: 1-4. It is scored as a single movement for two violas. It was performed during June 2019 at the Walden School by Victor Lowrie Tafoya and Katie Palka.

Retrospection II

Demon by Matthew Brown 
performed June 2, 2019
Inversion Ensemble
Trevor F. Shaw, artistic director

DEMON by Matthew Brown
performed June 2, 2019
Inversion Ensemble
Trevor F. Shaw, artistic director

Text: Marcus 5:9
Legio nomen mihi [Our name is Legion]
Est multi sumus [For we are many]

DEMON was written and premiered on Saturday, October 15, 2015, presented to an audience of film and video game composers as a
demonstration of novel vocal techniques. My challenge to myself was to write a piece with zero specific pitches or texts; previously, I had
experimented with such techniques only within the context of more “traditional” choral pieces, such as Pacem. As the piece began to take
shape, I realized that the addition of an appropriately spine-tingling text would complement the sound world which was emerging. The
Latin included in the piece is taken from a biblical story of demon possession. Asked for a name, the response is: “Our name is Legion, for we are many.” Although this piece may be performed with smaller choirs—perhaps even as few as eight or twelve—I imagine it becoming
increasingly effective (and impactful) with greater numbers, given the techniques employed. (A Roman legion consisted of about five
thousand men at the time of the story, for what it’s worth!)

Demon by Matthew Brown June 2, 2019

A sonic image of March 15 - May 15, 2020 from my apartment in Brooklyn, NY during On Pause orders as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. 
It combines sounds heard from my window each day and evening from this time period, sounds from a collaboration with choreographer Kelly Bartnik, and my own musical responses.

In My Room

Alloy (Metal Etude No. 2) – The process of making an alloy involves combining different types of metal to create a material with new properties.  In Alloy, I joined the sounds of metal percussion, metal piano strings, and heavy metal music to create a music that displays elements of each and also has a make up of its own.  This is the second in a series of pieces exploring the mixture of the heavy metal music I loved in my youth with the electroacoustic music I write today.  The first more overtly references heavy metal music.  Alloy takes a more subtle approach.  The most obvious reference comes when the energy of the piece is at it's highest point.

Alloy

I created the Guitar part many years ago and my good friends Darcy (Cello) and Carolyn (Violin) breathed life into it.  They deserver a lot of credit for this. We played this piece many times when we were in the trio "Flight of Fancy.

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