Space Adventure - Stealing Time

Beer Flight is a completely ridiculous and interminable thumbing of my nose at multi-serialism, complete with involuntary audience participation, composed in 2022 for a Post-Tonal Music Theory assignment when I was getting my Master's degree, and submitted appropriately enough on April 1st.

This piece is scored for two trumpets, horn, and tuba. The 12-tone series used for this composition is:
6	10	1	3	11	8	2	0	4	9	7	5
The duration of notes will be based upon the number of eighth note beats, starting with 0. So, 0 is an eighth note, 1 is a quarter note, and so on. The duration of a row's notes will be determined by the row beneath it or adjacent to it on the matrix. So, if the player is currently playing P4, the duration of the notes in the row will be determined by P6. If the player is playing I8, the duration will be determined by I6. Each player will play all twelve rows of the matrix, but the four players will travel the matrix in different directions. The first trumpet will play P, the second trumpet will play I, the horn will play R, and the tuba will play RI.
To the left of each player there should be a metal bucket. To the right of each player there should be a small table, with twelve 2 or 3 oz. glasses filled with a variety of beer selections. As each player completes their row, they shout the name of a beer and chug it, corresponding to the final note in that row (indicated in the score). The glasses must be labeled by number and filled with the following:
 
0 – Stout
1 – Doppelbock
2 – Porter
3 – Lambic 
4 – Bock
5 – IPA
6 – Dunkelweizen
7 – Wheat
8 – Amber
9 – Kolsch
10 – Lager 
11 - Schwarzbier
 
**Involuntary Interactive Audience Experience**
Each row of the theater will be equipped with a mystery box on the back of it. The boxes must be black, with a menacingly pink question mark painted onto them. The boxes will be distributed at random throughout the theater and in no predictable pattern. Whenever each row of the piece ends, the mystery boxes corresponding to that final number of the row will open, at which point a fun and exciting surprise will be launched at the audience member sitting behind that box. On the inside of the box, after the surprise has been revealed, a painted number inside will show the audience member which box they had, ultimately revealing to them P0, allowing them to share in the fun experience of 12-tone serialism.

The boxes will be spring-loaded with the following items, to be launched at the appropriate time according to the final number in the row (as indicated for the stage manager in the score):

0 - Banana Cream Pie
1 - A Live Chicken
2 – Gummy Worms
3 - Silly String
4 – Strawberry milk and Rainbow Confetti
5 - Shaving Cream
6 - A mixture of Lucky Charms, Rice Chex, Golden Grahams, Cheerios, Wheaties, Apple Jacks, Frosted Flakes, Grape Nuts, Fruit Loops, Cocoa Puffs, Frankenberry, and Cap'n Crunch. (Multi-Cerealism).
7 - Melted Rocky Road Ice Cream
8 - Lime Green Jell-O
9 - Cheese Whiz
10 - A full Surf 'n Turf Dinner
11 - KFC's Eleven Herbs and Spices

***Additional performance instructions:***

When a player shouts "Amber" any audience member with that name may slap the person next to them.

When "IPA" is shouted, any Canadians are permitted to leave and use the restroom.

Beer Flight

“A Toast to Disorder” is a contemporary avant-garde piece built on the foundation of the 12-tone technique. Inspired by a personal experience of unresolved conflict, this piece depicts the whirlwind of emotions felt from that moment including utter confusion, frustration, and panic that unfolded over 12 days (how coincidental!). The dissonant melodies and tritones mirror the communication breakdown, and feelings of being wronged and silenced from expressing my point of view, due to the other person’s evasive nature.

This piece explores the use of extended techniques like col legno where the string players are to hit the strings with provided rattan sticks, to act as a percussive element together with the concert bass drum and snare drum to drive the piece forward. Another unique element is the inclusion of 4 empty wine bottles, each carefully chosen for its distinct pitch from my personal collection. These bottles become unconventional instruments with unexpected timbres that serve as a metaphorical “toast” to this fractured platonic relationship.

As the piece progresses, generative music enters. The number “12” is visually mapped on Midinous, a generative music software, symbolising the significant timeframe of the conflict and the 12-tone technique itself. The ever-evolving melody generated by the software reflects the unpredictable outcome of the situation, with 12 relative positive/negative note changes. It is then layered with the winds playing contrasting melodies and rhythms, creating a complex micropolyphonic texture that mirrors the unresolved nature of the conflict.

While this issue remains unresolved just like the ending of this piece, composing “A Toast to Disorder” has allowed me to have my form of resolution, to forget the past and move forward.

A Toast to Disorder

This is a composition based on the new technique by Ballard for adding phasing as an added transformation to traditional 12-tone compositional techniques. Flavored with mallets, metal drums, organ and "taped" distorted guitar.

Phase 3 Audio

2005 song written, arranged, recorded, mixed and mastered by me, ZOiD.

I cycled around to the musicians houses and recorded them on to my computer with a basic mic and soundcard. prob mixed itb on cubase. 

musicians:
Jenna Harris - vox
Cormac O'Brien - bass
Sean Carpio - drums
Greg Felton - fender rhodes
ZOiD - guitar

Loka

Marais is one of my few atonal pieces, and utilizes a 12-tone pitch organization technique. I composed Marais for solo viola in the spring of 2015. The piece has a brooding and moody emotion. 

Marais

Berceuse[BeSecure] for octet

World premiere from Ottawa Guitar Society Gala, Dec 8, 2024, at Huguette Labelle Hall, University of Ottawa

Composition by Sundar Subramanian with the support of the Ontario Arts Council
Emily Shaw - guitar
Recording by Nathan Bredeson, engineered by Sundar Subramanian

Based on a 12-note series, this set of variations on a repeated ground explores harmonics and resonances on the guitar, particularly beat frequencies resulting from the combination of 'just' harmonics and equal-tempered versions of a similar pitch.

Première mondiale du Gala de la Sociéte de Guitare d'Ottawa, le 8 déc. 2024, à la salle Huguette Labelle, l'Université d'Ottawa

Composé par Sundar Subramanian avec le soutien du Conseil des arts de l'Ontario
Emily Shaw - guitare
Enregistré par Nathan Bredeson, mixage par Sundar Subramanian

Eu utilisant des hauteurs dérivées d'une série dodécaphonique, on étudie dans ces variations sur un ground les harmoniques et résonances de la guitare, particulièrement des fréquences de battements qui sont produites lors de la combinaison d'une harmonique et la version tempérée de la même hauteur.

Stranded (Emily Shaw, guitar) - Ottawa Guitar Society Gala, Dec 2024

Tone row for my new cello piece

Holly Roadfeldt, Piano

Hommage a Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998) was my first attempt at writing serial music. I wanted to write something that was not typical of the 12-tone style, and I think I succeeded with this work. The short piece is in homage to the late Japanese filmmaker, Akira Kurosawa. The delicacy, as well as the highly structured nature of the pitch material, reflects how I feel about Kurosawa’s films. The piece is also a mirror of itself – in other words – the second half of the piece is a mirror image of the first half. I felt this tied in with Kurosawa’s storytelling.

Hommage A Akira Kurosawa - Official Album Version

I am a British composer, who has studied composition privately with British composer Peter Nickol https://www.impulse-music.co.uk/peternickol/ (although I am largely self-taught). I have also studied piano (privately) with concert pianist Ekaterina Shetliffe. 
My music contains elements of impressionism, and musical modernism; I have also explored 12-tone composition. Recently, my focus has been on learning quartal harmony!

Composers who have influenced me include Schumann, Chopin, Schoenberg, and Ligeti; however my formative musical inspiration is the music of Debussy.

*My music and poetry is copyrighted.*

Composer, mathematician, visual artist. 
Seeks collaboration with performers and choreographers.

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ZOiD is an Irish electronic musician making music spanning techno, idm and jazz. He runs the Zoitrax label.

Releases: 
ZOiD Vs Musicians Vol 2 (Zoitrax) Forthcoming 2024
"Pin Row Acid EP" on Winthorpe Electronics
"Dexaphonic EP" on Dan Curtin's Metamorphic Records, 2 originals and remixes from Dan Curtin and John Tejada - Vinyl coming soon...

other labels: Zoitrax, JuJuMuzik, Zoitrax, D1, Diatribe, Alkalinear Recordings, Boy Scout Audio, Invisible Agent, and Hormonal Vibrationz.

Anthony Joseph Lanman is an active and passionate musician that divides his time between composing, performing, teaching and advocacy for new classical music.

As a composer, Anthony creates music that reaches general audiences as well as new music connoisseurs. Embracing influences that range from progressive rock and metal, to medieval and renaissance music, to jazz, to new classical, Anthony strives to create a sound that is his own. He has written for ensembles and soloists around the world.

Recent commissions include – E.G.S./A.J.L. for guitarist Matthew Cochran, Hear Us! for children’s choir and string ensemble commissioned by Otter Creek Middle School, Automaton – a concerto for 8-string electric guitar and percussion for Clocks In Motion, The Rag and Bone Shop – a song cycle for baritone and piano trio for Brian Lewis and David Small commissioned by the University of Texas Butler School of Music, Rush – a quartet commissioned by the Music Teacher’s National Association and the Indiana Music Teacher’s Association, Hommages for Piano, Book 2, for Holly Roadfeldt, and Damselfly – a duo for 8-string electric guitar and percussion for Kyle Lutes.

Anthony’s performing career began in high school while singing and playing electric guitar with his touring progressive band Canvas. His principle instrument changed to classical guitar during his undergraduate years at University of Texas at Austin where he studied with Adam Holzman. Through his graduate study at Indiana University he added renaissance lute and theorbo to his instrumental arsenal, studying with Nigel North. He has performed with the University of Texas New Music Ensemble, the University of Texas Early Music Ensemble, the Indiana University New Music Ensemble, the Indiana State University Wind Ensemble, and Clocks in Motion. He has also performed many concerts of solo and chamber music.

Anthony’s advocacy is life-long. In the nineties, he hosted a contemporary classical music radio show on KVRX in Austin, Texas. In the 21st century, he promoted fellow Indiana University composers through a web presence on Mp3.com (now defunct); created Guitar Heroes, a weekly presentation series in Second Life; and produced more than 100 episodes of his ongoing music-centric podcasts All the Cool Parts and the 1,000 Recordings Podcast. He has appeared as a guest on Soundnotion, Composer Quest, Classical Guitar Insider, Goes 2 Eleven, and The Portfolio Composer.  His new podcast 1 Track focuses on the music of the contemporary classical world.  In addition, he has exposed thousands of new listeners to contemporary classical composers by sharing this music to his more than 400,000 followers on Soundcloud.

Anthony has held several positions at multiple universities and colleges, as well as K-12 public schools. In 2016, he held an adjunct position at Butler University in addition to teaching choir and music at West Vigo Middle School. He holds a BM in composition from the University of Texas, and an MM and DM in composition from Indiana University.

Anthony currently resides in Bloomington, IN with his wife Jenna and their cats Silas and Bod.

New album: https://sundarsubramanian.bandcamp.com/album/opening

Composer, guitarist, theorist, educator, originally from Ottawa. Here, you will find a mix of acoustic and electronic compositions as well as demonstration recordings of more standard classical and jazz repertoire on guitar.

Compositeur/guitariste/théoricien/enseignant canadien, originaire d'Ottawa. Voici des compositions acoustiques et électroacoustiques ainsi que des interpretations des morceaux du répertoire standard classique et jazz.

Nouvel album: https://sundarsubramanian.bandcamp.com/album/opening

New tracks tagged #12-tone