Very atmospheric. It sounds a bit like something between film music and ambient music. I like songs that develop for a long time and gradually build the atmosphere. I also make this kind of music, just in a slightly different style. Great music, congratulations :)

howl

Bonds

Commissioned by the U.S. Navy Band for Jonathan Yanik

Completed Oct. 17, 2023
Premiered at the International Saxophone Symposium on January 12, 2024 at George Mason University

As a child, I used to obsessively rewatch my favorite movies. Seeing the same sequences over and over, I would begin to notice little mistakes across cuts - misplaced items, inexplicable outfit changes, loose strands of hair - and I started to wonder how actors managed to keep their characters consistent if they could barely maintain their physical appearances. I soon realized that many actors, quite simply, did not. 

Continuity Errors, true to its name, celebrates the unexpected surrealism of inconsistency. The piece is filled with sudden, frenetic shifts in tone, register, and key, with these drop-of-a-dime changes kicked off by the clapboard-like ‘crack!’ of a whip. The solo saxophone is the star of the show, eager to shine but occasionally out of step with the whip’s cues. The music frequently invokes the stylings of grand, cinematic soundscapes, even as the soloist obsessively brings the music back toward a more mischievous, off-kilter dance. As the piece builds towards its relentless climax, it cycles again and again through the soloist’s dance, as though trying to rehearse it again and again. The piece ends explosively with a series of wild jump cuts, culminating in a final exhausted smack of the whip. 

Many thanks to Jonathan Yanik and the amazing musicians of the U.S. Navy Band for realizing this piece.

Large Ensemble

Continuity Errors, for alto saxophone and wind ensemble

A track from an unreleased Tape Collage For Eloise album where I was experimenting with a more drum-machine, synth and electric guitar oriented sound. probably recorded sometime in early to mid 2010's I'd imagine, using a windows XP PC (that was outdated even then) loaded with an old version of audacity . Pretty sure the instruments used were a Korg Volca Beats, rewired Casiotone MT-65 keyboard, a Yamaha PSR-36 keyboard, and a telecaster guitar

Lyrics:

Tear me up
the blue estate
that you forgot
I was waiting
by the railing
you were rotting away

beyond the perfect summer haze
you were pretending that the dead
remembered dreaming of
their styrofoam mistakes

father these
stupid songs
like they're here
like they walk beside me
round the shallow mere
the stagnant pond

beyond the perfect summer haze
you were pretending that the dead
remembered dreaming of
their styrofoam mistakes

Songs From The Swallowed Sea

Styrofoam

DCR - OUR HOUSE - DCOMPOSED

Old sayings about the end of the world

tio wedurora

Uasicerodua

Ononthercto

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