d. alatas (g), m. garruccio (dr), g. goeb (k), j. goltz (tb), m. mainusch (tr), c. paulssen (b), a. schimpf (sax),

Out of the Trunk

Funky Flav

e9 allstars - Funky Flav

I produce music using samples (or loops) just like for House Music in the 80/90s. House Music is often associated with electronic sounds. This track is here to prove the opposite using accoustic recordings 🙂.

Photo by Alexandre St-Louis on Unsplash

Rock Me - Unplugged

Hi all! 

This is the Single version of Cameron & I's song, Silica. 

Hope you dig it!
Releasing everywhere 4/20!

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Lyrics:

Pictures ripped apart a thousand ways
Tearing up the colors you erased 
Ink stains your finger tips, the colors of your lips
We thought you'd stay instead you ran away

You runaway...

Escaping everything, unknowing
The scribbles that you wrote this morning
Quiet, constantly exploring
Where you'd go without a warning
Start a fire and keep it burning
Shattered pieces, everlasting
Silica things you were staining
To keep what's worth to you remembering

Memories torn apart and tucked away
Your evenings only view when you stay'd awake
Make up your whitest lies, and kiss your truth goodbye
I thought you'd care enough to stay and wait

You ran away 

Escaping everything, unknowing
The scribbles that you wrote this morning
Quiet, constantly exploring
Where you'd go without a warning
Start a fire and keep it burning
Shattered pieces, everlasting
Silica things you were staining
To keep what's worth to you remembering

Where are you going
What colors are you staining

Escaping everything, unknowing
The scribbles that you wrote this morning
Quiet, constantly exploring
Where you'd go without a warning
Start a fire and keep it burning
Shattered pieces, everlasting
Silica things you were staining
To keep what's worth to you remembering


Escaping everything, unknowing
The scribbles that you wrote this morning
Quiet, constantly exploring 
Where you'd go without a warning
Start a fire and keep it burning
Shattered pieces, everlasting
Silica things you were staining
To keep what's worth to you remembering

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Silica (Single)

Silica

-Streaming-

Cassandra

This song let you feel light. Almost like birds flying in the sky.

LeichterSinkflug

Thursday
for Soprano and Piano
Duration: 12’
Text by Kenny Berkowitz and Bridget Meeds
Performers: American Modern Ensemble; Nancy Allen Lundy, Soprano, Blair McMillen, piano
Publisher: Bill Holab Music: http://www.billholabmusic.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=103_137&products_id=889
Online Perusal Score: https://issuu.com/robertpaterson/docs/thursday.fs.all.bound
For More Information: https://robertpaterson.com/thursday

PROGRAM NOTES
The text for Thursday was conceived and written by two close friends, Bridget Meeds and Kenny Berkowitz, both excellent writers who possess an acute and often exquisitely wry sense of humor. Each movement attempts to paint a literary picture of the central character by introducing various people who are related to her. The work has six short movements, each one representing a different character.

Winter Songs

Thursday - 2. 9:15 am

Wind Quintet
Duration: 18'
Commissioned by Quintet of the Americas; Underwritten by the American Composers Forum with funds provided by the Jerome Foundation
Publisher: Bill Holab Music: http://www.billholabmusic.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=103_137&products_id=909

PROGRAM NOTES
All of the movements of this wind quintet are connected and inspired in some way by American icons, surrealism, collage, post-1950s imagery and suburbia.

The first movement, Andante, begins with the ending and ends at the beginning. Some instruments mimic others and just when you think an idea might go in one direction, it goes in another. I gleaned many of my ideas from studying cinematic character development and the unusual forms used in many modern films such as the 1994 film Pulp Fiction by Quentin Tarantino.

The second movement, Suburban waltz-fantasy, contains quotes from 1960s-70s TV show themes: The Jetsons, All in the Family, Green Acres, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Brady Bunch and Leave It To Beaver. The movement begins with a waltz-like feel and two of the players mimicking “suburban chicken lady housewives cackle-gossiping across a backyard fence.” An obnoxious stray dog interjects with loud barking and then the movement takes off in a different direction. Some of the quotes are re-composed to sound like bird songs, others are textural and a few are so subtle that they are not easy to discern. Some of the parts even sound like they are mocking each other. This movement is a strange, surrealist collage.

The most immediate and obvious reference in the title of the third movement, Melting Clocks, is to Salvador Dali’s famous 1931 painting The Persistence of Memory in which there are images of melting or limp watches. I imagine a room full of clocks all ticking away, yet slightly inaccurately, the “baby clocks” a little faster than the “old grandfather clocks.” The middle section contains a few brief quotes form the first movement, and the “slightly melted” end of the movement brings back the cuckoo, but this time it melts as if it is in a house consumed by fire.

The fourth movement, Klezmeshugeh, derives its title from my combining the words ‘klezmer’—which is a combination of the two Hebrew words, kley and zemer, meaning ‘instrument of song’—and meshugeh, which is a Yiddish word meaning ‘crazy’. Essentially, this made-up title means “crazy instrument song.” In this movement, there are a few “wrong notes” that allude to the players pretending to sight-read. The end also concludes with a few thematic fragments from the second movement.

Wind Quintet was commissioned by Quintet of the Americas and underwritten by the American Composers Forum with funds provided by the Jerome Foundation.

Wind Quintet - I. Andante

LOVE

The tale of a slow bus journey to work one morning when I wasn't feeling very good about my job at the time in particular and life in general. With hindsight, I was having a bit of a panic attack. These women on the bus just didn't stop talking shite all the way and I just couldn't 'tune out' in the panic. Everything was winding me up. Every spot of rain, every sneeze, every cough. I like the tune and sound of the guitar more than the lyrics.

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Shadows

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.

Wind Quintet - I. Andante

Robert Paterson Composer