Name: Synthophilia by travis-sullivan in Day 8 Playlist -- VGMA July Challenge 2020
Duration: 1 min 4 s
Description: Composed with layers around a couple of EDM drum loops.

Day 8 Playlist -- VGMA July Challenge 2020

Wild West - Town of a Dollar

Drive

Day 8 of The 21-Day Composition Challenge by VGM Academy
Topic: Curious yet Cautious

Day 8: Curious yet Cautious

Composed with layers around a couple of EDM drum loops.  

Synthophilia

#21DaysOfVGM - Summer 2020 - Day 08
Maybe we can try to hide in the bush, then throw a rope to climb the wall? No wait, we don't have a rope... Or throw a rock on the other side to distract them? It seems there's no rocks around here...

Challenge:
Pizz Off: Write an entire piece for strings, using the pizzicato technique for every instrument throughout the entire piece.

21 Days Of VGM - Summer 2020

Sneaking Past The Guards

Starting the second week with a bit more of a romantic era piece.

My dance prompt today was the sixth port de bras! This port de bras includes some interesting twisting and bending motions. There are also bigger movements from the rest of the body than with other port de bras.

My composer quest prompt today was "The Forgot Beats". The goal of this challenge is to create a piece where the melody begins on beats 2 or 3 of a measure.

Enjoy!
Corey de Baat

21 Day Challenge - Day 8 - Sixth Port De Bras

I failed yesterday :( and almost do it again but, I tried and maybe I invented a new rule: busy days I compose with Studio One patters electronic music. Two things I don't do a lot...

21DaysofVGM 8(2)

Original Clip - Ancient Factory

www.travissullivan.com: Zoho Music and Posi-Tone recording artist Travis Sullivan has earned a worldwide reputation as an alto saxophonist, pianist, composer, and arranger.  Embedded in the New York music scene for the past 20 years, he has been hailed by Jazz Times as being “…a gifted alto saxophonist and improviser who has also developed a strong and commanding voice as a composer.”
In 2004, his breakthrough came in the form of Travis Sullivan’s Bjorkestra, an 18-piece big band performing his arrangements of the renowned music of Icelandic pop goddess Bjork.  The Bjorkestra has acquired international recognition from performances with acclaimed jazz artists such as George Garzone, Dave Douglas, Kurt Rosenwinkel, and Donny McCaslin, and performances at the Montreal International Jazz Festival, the Jarasum Jazz Festival, the SF Jazz Festival, and the NYC Winter Jazz Festival, and the Blue Note NYC.  
Sullivan’s current projects include: Altoism: The Masters of Alto Sax  in which he interprets the music of some of the most influential alto saxophonists in jazz; SnapDragon, an avant garde jazz ensemble featuring Sullivan on both alto saxophone and piano with drummer Bob Meyer; and Squonk: A Jazz Tribute to Genesis a jazz quartet spotlighting the music of the progressive rock band Genesis.

Sullivan’s 2011 CD release  “New Directions,”  was his his debut on Posi-Tone Records, and presents eight of his original modern jazz compositions and quartet, as well as Rodgers & Hart’s “Spring is Here,” and his arrangement of the Tears for Fears classic “Everybody Wants to Rule the World.” In 1999 Sullivan’s self-release Travis Sullivan’s Project One: As We Speak featured his original music with a quartet that included guitarist Rez Abbasi and drummer Ari Honig.  
Travis has also performed and/or recorded with Phil Woods, Ambrose Akinmusire, George Garzone, Dan Weiss, Clarence Penn, Rachel Z, Avishai Cohen, Anat Cohen, Nir Felder, Donny McCaslin, Becca Stevens, Alan Ferber, Jane Monheit, Clark Terry,  Jason Miles, and Lukas Ligeti. He can be heard performing regularly in the U.S. at venues such as The Blue Note, Iridium, The Jazz Standard, and Joe’s Pub.  He has also appeared internationally at The Jarasum Jazz Festival (South Korea), and Aperitivo in Concerto (Italy), and as conductor for the Cologne Contemporary Jazz Orchestra (Germany), the Sicilian Jazz Orchestra (Italy), the Reykjavik Big Band (Iceland), and the Bohuslan Big Band (Sweden).
Enjoy the music!

Synthophilia

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