My arrangement of Samuel Barber's Excursions, Op. 20, for quintet. Performed live at Sprague Hall for my Master of Music recital, Yale School of Music, March 24, 2015. Movement I: the "Boogie-Woogie" movement

Personell:

Ludek Wojtkowski - violin
Daniel Stone - viola
Samuel Bobinski - double bass
Joshua Anderson - clarinet
Kemp Jernigan - oboe

Engineering by Eugene Kimball and Matthew LeFevre

Samuel Bobinski: Master's Recital

Barber - Excursions - I. Un poco allegro

John Cage's 4'33" with a Huge Shitty Drop at the End

Premiered by the USC Thornton Symphony, conducted by Donald Crockett.

Several of my recent pieces concern themselves with dichotomies, or pairs of ideas that push and pull against each other. I find that I have difficulty writing unless I have at least two opposing concepts that I can somehow “compose between.”  Rest and Restless carries this process out with regards to emotional states – I would describe the piece as an “emotional landscape.”  The music slowly alternates, pendulum-like, from low angst-broodings to brighter hopes, back and forth, but without letting either mood "win" over the other. These forces eventually come to a head in a tutti explosion, followed by a stark coda that, to me, feels either optimistic or dejected, depending on what mood I am in. Whenever I try to write this program note my mind keeps coming back to an image of looking out my bedroom window at the evening clouds, my imagination being ignited by the simultaneously serene and troubled shapes of grey. Perhaps the music reflects that fantasy in some emotional fashion.

The piece was originally composed as a solo for double bass for a concert I was giving at university. Without any significant pre-compositional preparations, I set about writing the piece with only a few simple goals in mind: that the piece would be overtly expressive yet interesting to listen to, that it would be manageable for a player to learn quickly, and that it would demand a diverse range of a playing techniques from the single instrument. My decision to orchestrate the piece was based on the impression that the almost constant double stops and high range harmonics on the bass created a texture interesting enough to hear with an orchestral palate. I have tried to preserve the feeling of low, open strings throughout the piece, while adding a greater variety of timbres and layers to the melodic passages.

Rest And Restless (for orchestra)

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Episode 246 - Best of New England Live, Part 2 (9/19/18)

Ori and the Blind Forest
Composed by Gareth Coker
Arranged and orchestrated by David Peacock

Performed by WDR Funkhausorchester and WDR Rundfunkchor
Conducted by Evan Christ
Piano solo by Benyamin Nuss

Ori and the Blind Forest (Suite performed by WDR Orchestra and Choir)

U.S. Pacific territories: What are they? Why do we have them? And why is the U.S. Navy trying to drop bombs on a tiny, inhabited, volcanic island? Producer Chris discusses territorial activism on the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and resisting the Navy running amok there, with journalist Sophia Perez.

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Sophia's podcast, The Alternative Zero Project:
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Bonus: Chris Discusses U.S. Navy Bombing of the Mariana Islands

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296 - The Unsullied (3/11/19)

Wilbert Roget says writing the soundtrack for Mortal Kombat 11 was a thrill because it gave him the opportunity to write music for one of his all-time favorite franchises.  He's been playing the series since he was a teenager and he created the music to reconnect with what he loved about the game. He told me creating a unique theme for each of these legacy characters was really satisfying as well.

Wilbert Roget Reconnects With His Teenage Self For His Mortal Kombat 11 Soundtrack

A medley of various tunes from the Legend of Zelda Series. Commission for the opening video for the 10th anniversary of Zeldathon. Featuring:

Videri String Quartet:
Matheus Sardinha Garcia Souza - violin
Chris Ferrara - violin
Rosie Samter - viola
Jeremiah Barcus - cello
and
Sam Bobinski - upright bass, engraving for strings

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Barber - Excursions - I. Un poco allegro

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