A piece written for and performed by yMusic.

If And Only If

Ben Morris is a composer whose music tells unconventional stories and crosses genre boundaries. He is Assistant Professor of Composition at Stephen F. Austin State University.

Daniel Nash is an half Asian-half caucasian American contemporary classical composer and performer. He was born and raised in Colorado, studied in Utah, and is currently based near Los Angeles. He’s classically trained in violin, piano, voice, and electronics and his musical influences stem from minimalism, musique concrete, and 20th century compositional techniques. 

Lately, Daniel has been improvising along with classical/jazz clarinetist, Spencer Danielson,  and percussionist, Alex Williams, to create some unique improvisations. Albums with names such as Daxer or Dancer are blends of the names of the different improvisers.

He also has a passion for interdisciplinary collaborations with physicists, poets, computer scientists, and dancers. For example, in the piece Gravity - Live, the piece was performed live with a cello center stage and the other revolving around it and the double stops the cello is playing matches the gravitational constant.

He did a music business internship in Estonia where he got to do work for Peeter Vähi and Arvo Pärt doing sound engineering and archival work. 

He studied under composers Neil Thornock, Christian Asplund, Micheal Hicks, and Sam Richards at Brigham Young University. 

For some time, his interest was in video game music composition, but has since transitioned to a much more introspective and free approach to music composition. Though, tracks where he felt he had more creative liberty can still be found here.

I want to die!
Or at least cry and hide!

...
Aaaaaaa
crazinesssss!
Don´t want to study!
Misssssss youuuuuu!

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You're a sweetheart!
Of course I love!
(Sorry that voice was so boring
and I was speaking such a bad icy!)
Kssssksss!

...
Tkk!
Á St!

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Do you know.. 
I actually think..

That you're starting the best time in your life 🥲 
You're ready for this, finally! 
I am very proud of you! 
YOU ARE HONEST! 
To everyone and to yourself! 
It will be only better from now on! You will see! 
I feel that you understand yourself better 
than you ever did before! 
You will not carry the heavy moon-stone.. 
baby, it will be good! 

(((I just greedily hope 
to be somehow the part of your new, pretty future! 
One way or another, just somehow some day!)))

Hey! You did it!
And you're so damn beautiful!

Lv! So much!

If And Only If

Nathan Thatcher