Track 4 from the self-titled, 12 track début album

浄土の学校 (Jodo School) by Shitamachi Mandrill

Spiraling
No such thing
On the ground
White and brown
Fool in frost
Is it lost?
Ever my
Lighthouse eyes
Drive in doubt
Stars are out

Written, recorded, and mixed by Roundbarn
Mastered by Jason Koth

Jason Koth: Acoustic guitars, electronics, mellotron
David Voss: Mandolin, piano, pitch pipe, violin, vocals
Sam Genualdi: Electric guitar, rubber bridge guitar, vocals

Snowfields

Open the window
Fury of life
Give up your weapons
Lay down in light
You seem so hollow
Like streets at night
Am I still present
If not in sight

Life is just changing
And nothing more
Like trees in winter
Always reborn
Open the window
Fury of life
Give up your weapons
Lay down in light

Written and recorded by Roundbarn
Mixed and mastered by Jason Koth

Jason Koth: Acoustic guitars, bass, drums, percussion, synths, vocals
Sam Genualdi: Electric guitars, synths, vocals
David Voss: Keys, mandolin, pitchpipe, vocals

Includes a sample of "Kogarashi" by David Voss as performed by Leo Sussman, Zelda Younger, Jacob Fernandez, and Kennison Ther

Of Life

My arrangement of the traditional Assyrian Wedding Song "Hay Moyyalan" for orchestra and traditional instruments.

In some ways, this piece is an homage to Geoff Knorr, the composer behind the Civilization 6 game. As a huge fan of the Civilization franchise, especially as a musician, I came to this arrangement as an exercise to imagine what the Assyrian theme would be when playing the game.

Assyrian Wedding Song

Cover of Chemical Plant Zone Act 2 from Sonic Mania, all transcribed from ear. Made using VOPM because I felt like bending the rules a little bit.

Sonic Mania - Chemical Plant Zone 2

Jordan Alexander Key (b. 1990): "Meditation after the Death of Stephen Hawking," trio for soprano, flute, double bass, and fixed media on digital excerpts from Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking, Richard Dawkins, Malala Yousafzai, Jane Goodall, and Wangari Maathai.

Thank you, Stephen Hawking, for being an inspiration throughout my life, showing me the value of lifelong learning, impassioned teaching, unabashed imagination, and perseverance in the face of adversity.

Written for the Fonema Consort

Premier: March 29, 2019, The University of Florida, Friends of Music Room
Performance: The Fonema Consort

music by Jordan Alexander Key:
https://www.jordanalexanderkey.com/

for a score/performance video animation with subtitles see:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiQSqwP5R-A

for a complete score see:
https://www.academia.edu/38897013/Meditation_after_the_Death_of_Stephen_Hawking_Trio_for_Soprano_Flute_Double_Bass_and_Fixed_Media

Meditation After The Death Of Stephen Hawking - Trio for Soprano, Flute, Double Bass and Fixed Media

Performed by NOW Ensemble live at the Red Note New Music Festival

Blind Eye (Live Performance by NOW Ensemble)

Performed by the Contemporary Music Ensemble of Northwestern University with Elisa Sutherland (mezzosoprano), conducted by Joe Higgins. May 31st, Pick Staiger, Evanston. Text by Sylvia Plath.  

A Birthday Present

Nebal is a scholar, poet, and composer whose works focus on the profundity of pitch, semiotics, and esotericism to create artworks that transcend the physical and foster cosmic connection towards the realization of radical unity.
 
Their most innovative work creates a process that engrains western style counterpoint in Arabic Music whilst maintaining the latter’s distinct microtonality. Synchronizing both principles of counterpoint through negotiating elements of Spectralism, Pythagorean tuning & philosophy, western concepts of harmony and eastern concepts of Sayr (tr. Flow). This work has led to new possibilities in Sufi numerological ritual, and further opportunities for experimentalism in both occidental and oriental musics.
 
Beyond their research into Islamic esoteric philosophy and its manifestations within the field of Arabic music, the composer is also equally if not more adept at conventional Western music as well. Nebal has written in a wide variety of genres ranging between tonal, minimalist, abstract, graphic, and electronic within the realm of Western music as well, and ultimately finds their home at the intersection of these distinct styles. Their 3rd Piano Sonata, Bedtime Stories for the Inner Child showcases the composer’s passion for long-form music, dexterity of style, and rigid control of form. Similarly, al-Wahdat al-Wujud showcases the composer’s creativity in the realm of graphic notation, electronic manipulation, and religious exploration outside the context of Islam. 
 
The composer’s current projects include Kitab al-Tabaqat (tr. The Book of Layers), a treatise on counterpoint in Arabic music that takes inspiration from Rameau’s Treatise on Harmony, Fux’s Gradus Ad Parnassum along with al-Farabi’s Kitab al-Musika Kebir (tr. The Great Book of Music) and the philosophies of various Sufi schools and scholars including Ibn Arabi and al-Bumi. Out of principle, the composer does not share any pronouns, images of themself, nor educational background as to insist that the music and music only be concerned when engaging with the composer in a professional capacity.

Assyrian Wedding Song

نِبال

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