2013, fixed media

Over the last several years, I have worked to simplify my music as much as possible--at first from a desire to avoid cluttering it up with "extra notes," and increasingly out of an impulse to get down to the most basic, essential idea I can. Pentecost is one manifestation of that drive. Its genesis lies in the contemplation of a handmade tapestry I own, a deep blue field divided by two interlocking grids of white lines. My first quick sketches--wavering pencil on blank paper--tried to take in too much; but, as I pared it down, I came to a band of interweaving lines moving across the page, individual and yet one gesture.

The title Pentecost refers to both the event and the feast in Christian tradition: the descent of tongues of flame onto the heads of a waiting, wondering band of disciples. The weaving lines of my sketches circle and descend, a moment suspended in time, imagined in sound.

(the present version of Pentecost is a stereo remix based on an octophonic remix I did in February 2014, replacing the original stereo file from October 2013)

Pentecost

Pentecost (2013)

I want to make music that will inspire our generation to look out for each other and to love one another. 

Lets give a shit. 

Violinist for Seattle Philharmonic, Outlaw Space, Townsend’s Solitaire, Sam Lachow, Prismia, Nobi, Pacific Northwest Opera, and always open and looking for additional projects to add my sound to!

The music you’ll find here—as of 17/12/22—is old covers of video game music I did for Materia Collective before they shit down. I also have some student electronic works here.

Composer, percussionist, and guitarist. Ears wide open. Recently a professor of composition and music theory at Washington State University, currently catching my breath.

Lots more here: linktr.ee/scottblasco