Excellent work Martin.  I'm enjoying listening.

A powerful start to this section, transitioning into a hopeful and uplifting end indeed.  Good luck.

City Kids, album: On Parole, by Motorhead, Pink Fairies

Music, production: Verulium
Vocals: Amanda

https://amandasanderson.bandcamp.com/track/city-kids

City Kids

Soundings from the Heart’s Chambers is intended to be a hopeful and uplifting listening experience. The impact of the pandemic of the past two-plus years in combination with heightened political unrest and other simultaneous crises across the globe has challenged our expectations and worn down our spirits. With this in mind, I chose to respond to the Lowell Chamber Orchestra’s 2022 call for scores with a work intended to inspire hope and lift our spirits.  

Within its compact 9.5-minute time frame, this suite progresses through four brief movements: Hope, Waves of Doubt, Garnering Trust, and A Leap of Faith. To musically signal renewed hope, the opening measures of the first movement return in the final movement after this work’s climactic musical depiction of a leap of faith forward. The middle two movements of the work aim to convey progress back to a renewed state of hope and trust. 

The second movement’s lumbering two-layered bass line is anchored around E. The upper instrumental voices ebb and flow in a repeating musical gesture tethered to the bass and never escape the harmonic pull of E (as if immobilized in doubt). This movement ends with a rhythmically tenuous cadence on E minor further signifying the experience of doubt. The third movement gradually unfolds into a brighter mood and arrives at a strong confident final cadence on C major which sets up the final movement’s expressive sonic gesture of a leap of faith.

The audio here is produced with NotePerformer from my Sibelius score writing program.

Soundings from the Heart's Chambers

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A.I. voices came from dimension X. ^^

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Kosmisk Strålning II

I came of musical age during the Folk Revival of the early 60's. It was -- to say no more, because even this is in some respects already too much -- far from the worst time in which to be young. I'm not trying to bring back the dead: but this is a theme, and a treatment of it by an ensemble of unusual acoustic instruments (read their names in the additional tags) which would not have seemed out of place back then. But nor is it now.

She's a princess in exile, wants to bring me my joe,
I really can't see her as waitress, oh no,
There's a gleam in her eye and a tilt of her head,
Makes you know she was once rather different, instead.
Cause dreams don't die easy, and memories don't fade,
But all her princes have reasons they can't come to her aid,
And the minstrels are palsied, and the poets struck dumb.
There's no help for a princess in needs of a crumb.

She's a princess of music, and she can't find a fit
Between a soul that's too full, and a job that ain't shit.
And the arts, just like Ireland, have this renown
Of high praise from the children they've starved out of town
Where's the goal for her eye, where's the task for her hand?
But there's no help for princesses chased from the land
And no way to turn past triumphs to present gains,
So a princess in exile she is, and remains.
A princess in exile in the heart of the plains.

Princess in Exile

Orchestral track, inspired by the wonderful novel "The Invisible Live of Addie LaRue" by V. E. Schwab. Please remember to like, comment and follow if you enjoy, this makes me happy. https://youtu.be/gTu4VYGpsQE

Remember Me (video in description)

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Prevelen / Muttering

I am a composer that is classically trained with broad interest and experience in world musics. MM New England Conservatory '86, BM University of Massachusetts at Amherst '76.

My compositions have won awards from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, New England Reed Trio International Chamber Music Composition Competition, a Bryant Fellowship from Harvard University, and a certificate from the 21st Century Music Project Competition of the the International Center for Japanese Culture in Yokohama, Japan. My works have been performed across the United States, Europe and Japan.

As a composer, I am interested in considering commissions and collaborations. Performing scores and parts are available to all my works here on SoundCloud through Universal Edition, J. W. Pepper Music, Frank Warren Music Service, or by contacting me.

I hope you enjoy listening here.

Soundings from the Heart's Chambers

Martin Max Schreiner, composer

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