Original song. Recorded in audacity. I'm doing this alone. Yes there is clipping. Yes I wish there were drums (but I don't play them). Yes the latency had problems. Yes it is not mastered at all and my mic had issues. Yes there is background noise. But this was a labor of love longtime coming, and it's for you to enjoy. Please don't steal.

Asylum

Mozey

©P OpheliaZombie Music November 2014. All Rights Reserved. 
SATB Choral Composition. Words are adapted from the english translation of a Rumi poem of the same name. Performers as follows-
Soprano: Carmen Massey
Alto: Myself
Tenor: Max Kluger-Bell
Bass: Peter Ives
Thank you to all the singers for hard work and patience, not to mention heavenly voices. It was an honor.


When The Rose Is Gone

First track of the year - a work in progress I'm calling "Gone" for now. I tested out my new CAD u37 condenser mic for the first time today and it's...uh...really hot. Planning to re-upload later this week with the vox recorded about fourteen thousand light-years away from the mic, but I wanted to post at least a little something today. Aside from the apparent continuation of my reign as the queen of clipping, I feel good about this one :). Thanks to my dear dad for playing an extra groovy bass part. Happy 2017!

Gone (rough draft)

Composer: Sofia Avery
Text: Dylan Thomas
Performers:
Kyle Lang - Vibraphone
Sofia Avery - Voice 

Clown In The Moon is adapted from the homonymous Dylan Thomas poem. To me, the otherworldly timbre of vibraphone was the obvious choice to carry this text’s dissociative melancholy. The voice and vibraphone imitate one another quite a lot, but never lapse into homophony. This mimics the disorienting codependence of grief and beauty articulated in the text. 
I let the text guide my writing. A good example of how is my treatment of the word “rift”: it is separated from its antecedent phrase by a chromatic ostinato of syncopated 16th notes, then silence. The word itself straddles a fractured motif, too - the 16th note figure transposed down by a major 2nd, followed by a tritone leap into a static, fortissimo whole note. 
While the above is an extreme example, it is my intention that even the subtler gestures compel listeners to savor the dignity and importance of the words they exist inside.

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