I've always loved tango music - it's so diverse and full of life and drama. This is my first piece using the classic tango form. The title is an homage to my hometown of Sacramento, California. For years, it was a center for processing tomatoes grown in California's fertile Central Valley. Hence, it's nickname as the Big Tomato. It is for 10 performers - flute, oboe, 2 clarinets, bassoon, 2 violins, 2 violas, and cello. Score and parts are available through music publisher Universal Edition at https://www.universaledition.com/en/Works/Big-Tomato-Tango/P0334501. Enjoy!

Big Tomato Tango

This song I wrote is about How I deal with depression and what I got through everyday.

Darkness

Мій музичний намір.
Щастя даром.

Підпишись на канал My Musical Intention - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCo25ktQP0LJUK3vOYgsV1A/?sub_confirmation=1

Завантажити з Google play:
https://play.google.com/store/music/album/My_Musical_Intention_%D0%A9%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8F_%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BC?id=Bjalqawncvrykhckl5yrcf5au3a


Слова, музика, запис, зведення: Oleksandr Dolbnja


Yesterday, here was happiness for free!
but you...?!
Did not come again
All hope - your tomorrow
Whoever searched has found it.

My Musical Intention - Free happiness (Щастя даром)

Original composition.  All music composed and performed by Alejandro Gonzalez (Sabine Alexander).

Uxoriae

Written: 2019
Duration: ca. 12'
Instrumentation: flute (doubling piccolo), oboe (doubling English horn), clarinet (doubling bass clarinet), and piano (pianist plays from score)
Commissioned by the Exponential Ensemble, with funding from the New York State Council on The Arts (NYSCA)
World Premiere: Exponential Ensemble, Opera America, Marc A. Scorca Hall, New York, NY, October 30, 2019

MOVEMENTS
I. Pascal’s Triangle
II. Noether’s Theorem
III. Einstein’s Daydream
IV. The Hammers of Pythagoras

PROGRAM NOTE
Relative Theory is a four-movement, ca. 12 minute work for flute (doubling piccolo), oboe (doubling English horn), clarinet (doubling bass clarinet), and piano. Each movement is inspired by a mathematician or theoretical physicist. I was inspired by a story that the commissioning ensemble, the Exponential Ensemble, told me about how much they enjoy performing programs for children that relate math to music. In a fun, yet hopefully meaningful way, the movements of my piece are designed to draw parallels between these two distinct, but interrelated worlds.

The title Relative Theory is a play on words: it loosely refers to Albert Einstein’s famous Special Theory of Relativity, but also to musical theories and theoretical principals that are used between each of the movements. All of these movements are inspired by mathematicians or theoretical physicists, and their theorems and theories inspire the music itself.

In Pascal’s Triangle, triads and intervallic content are structured so as to use binomial coefficients in musical ways. In Noether’s Theorem, the music mirrors her theorem, which states that every differentiable symmetry of the action of a physical system has a corresponding conservation law. Einstein’s Daydream, perhaps the most fanciful movement, quotes a few themes from Beethoven, J.S. Bach and Mozart, three composers who’s music Einstein loved to play on his violin. The work ends with a movement entitled The Hammers of Pythagoras, inspired by a legendary, apocryphal but nevertheless playful tale of Pythagoras passing by a blacksmith at work one day, and discovering that musical notes could be translated into mathematical equations.

There are some fascinating programmatic relations that dictate how thematic materials are used in various movements. Albert Einstein thought very highly of Emmy Noether, a mathematician who never achieved the fame she deserved because she was female. In fact, some of her theories inspired Einstein. Therefore, some of the themes in the second movement are used in the third. Einstein and Pythagoras both figure prominently in music history, albeit for different reasons, so themes from each of these movements permeate back and forth.

Relative Theory was commissioned by the Exponential Ensemble, with funding from the New York State Council on The Arts (NYSCA).

LINKS
https://www.exponentialensemble.com/
https://www.robpaterson.com/
https://robertpaterson.com/relative-theory

EXPONENTIAL ENSEMBLE
Anna Urrey, flute
Kemp Jernigan, oboe
Pascal Archer, clarinet
Geoffrey Burleson, guest pianist

Relative Theory - I. Pascal's Triangle

leaving well enough alone

Just Another Love Song

Another song about friend(s) in need

LYRICS:

It seems to me that we’ve done it all wrong
It came to me when I was writing this song
Gonna start again and we can start at the end
Didn’t need to mend, think I just needed a friend

I’m falling apart
You’re driving a stake through my heart

You came to me when you were needing a hand
Afloat at sea, we put you back on dry land
You threw it all back in the drink
You blew it on smack and down your sink

We’ll try another time
Just one more time
One more time again

Dry Land (Try Another Time)

We redefine our place in time. No fault. No crime. 
Our sins... justified... The graves won't lie
We trade integrity to take it over.

Freedom, unity, but you must obey. Ignore all our past and what we do. Fifty stars and ten generations. 

We claw. We bite. We break. We lie. More graves. More lives. 
The hate. The climb. Absolve. Enshrine. 
We regret... not at thing, we've taken over. 

Freedom, unity, but you must obey. Ignore all our past and what we do. Fifty stars and ten generations. 

You see, the dead can take no spoils. You would be wise to take a seat and remain silent now. 

Mentioning our indiscretions? Stepping in the wrong direction. Automated targeting. Time to heed the warnings. 
This dream comes with a price. We got the money. It's our right. Paradise... tripping on the unmarked gravestones. 

Freedom, unity, but you must obey. Ignore all our past and what we do. Stars and stripes and ten generations. Right?

10 Generations of Monsters

Perpetua

Scorn

I haven't been mixing for 2 month, and decided that is a good idea to mix someone else song before mixing mine. That is the result, hope you'll enjoy it :)

Original song: https://theblackcrown.bandcamp.com/album/entropy
My version HQ download: https://www.patreon.com/VanLaff

Black Crown - Cage (ReMix by VanLaff)

American composer Robert Paterson is a true New Yorker—born and bred in Buffalo, he lived in Rochester and Ithaca for over ten years, in New York City for over twenty years, and now lives in Saratoga Springs, near the Adirondacks. Paterson’s colorful music embraces a wide variety of themes, everything from goddesses and online dating to mathematics and the environment. His music is filled with emotion and fierce rhythmic energy, marked by elegance, wit, and meticulous craftsmanship. Named Composer of The Year by the Classical Recording Foundation at Carnegie Hall, Paterson is the winner of the Alfred I. DuPont Award, and his opera Three Way won the Grammy® under Best Classical Producer of the Year. His music is often a Best of the Year pick on National Public Radio. His orchestral tone poem, Dark Mountains, regularly airs on NPR’s Performance Today. Three Way premiered with Nashville Opera, then BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music), and across the United States. Minnesota Orchestra, Louisville Orchestra, The Oratorio Society of New York, Buffalo Philharmonic, Albany Pro Musica, Albany Symphony, Musica Sacra, Austin Symphony, Vermont Symphony, and ensembles worldwide perform his works. Paterson gives masterclasses at the Curtis Institute of Music, New York University, the Aspen Music Festival, the Cleveland Institute of Music, and more. He is the Artistic Director and house composer for Mostly Modern Projects. Robert is a lifelong vegan and advocates for animals and the environment, celebrating the natural world with ground-breaking works such as his Triple Concerto, A New Eaarth, Listen, and I Go Among Trees.

Relative Theory - I. Pascal's Triangle

Robert Paterson Composer