Sacred Embers, performed by the UT-Tyler Saxophone Ensemble.

Sacred Embers

Tico Tico No Fuba (Sparrow in the Cornmeal) is a crowd-pleasing arrangement for saxophone quartet, but also fun for the performers. This is a high-energy Grade 5 soca (soul-calypso) guaranteed to add variety to your program. Duration: 2:30.

Instrumentation: Soprano Sax, Alto Sax, Tenor Sax, Baritone Sax.

Sheet music available at:
https://www.lostkeymusic.com/saxophone-quartet

Tico Tico No Fuba - Saxophone Quartet

Written for & performed by RNCM Brand New Saxophones, workshops February 2024.

These three excerpts are part of a longer work, and includes some ideas inspired by film-making techniques.

For example, the fast material in very close canon overlaid with slower, fluid lines is a musical translation of a film technique called step-printing, which can create a slow-motion blurring effect produced by overlapping duplicated (or triplicated) frames; this can be used to give the impression of one character being in slow motion while a surrounding crowd is blurred and moving at double speed; the filmmaker Wong Kar-Wai was a pioneer of this technique; the effect was also more recently referenced in Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022).

Composed by Isla Jasmine Blake

Snapshots - Excerpts (2024)

This is the premiere recording from the 2025 North American Saxophone Alliance Region 7 Conference in Knoxville, Tennessee! Program notes coming soon!

Reiterations for Sax Ensemble - Darius D. Edwards

Darius Edwards is an award-winning saxophonist and composer based in Nashville, Tennessee. He graduated from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville with a Bachelor's degree in Music Education with an emphasis in Saxophone Performance and a minor in Music Composition.

Isla Jasmine Blake is a composer from the UK. She often seeks to weave depictions into her music, taking inspiration from nature, film, literature and art.

She has previously created soundtracks for short animated documentaries 'Tryweryn' (2021) youtu.be/tHljFFdQYDs and 'Rhannwch y Baich' (2022) youtu.be/EbJp_kNXZXM by animator Osian Roberts.

Isla has enjoyed writing for a variety of student and amateur ensembles including saxophone ensemble, string octet, percussion quartet, piano solo and more. Her recent projects include a new soundtrack for F. Percy Smith’s 1911 nature film 'The Strength & Agility of Insects', premiered at the RNCM in February 2024, and 'Snapshots', a current work-in-progress for 12 Saxophones which incorporates inspiration from film-making techniques.

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