Christo Morehead - Xenochronic ICS Day Session #16 July 2013

Nincomsleuth

Chutzpah for my Chimera

Afterwit

My contribution to the ICS Pseutopia project for Reinier Loopik! Written and recorded in 2 and a half hours. Lyrics courtesy of Brother Sewing Machine. Chord progressions courtesy of Random Cards.

Pseutopia - A Simple Life

Lucky 7

An early LIVE recording (I was here only 16 years old).

Scriabin: Etude in D flat major Op. 8 No. 10 "thirds". Terhi Dostal, piano LIVE

A recording from Duxbury Wind Ensemble at the Exchange Concert 1/15.

About the piece:

This piece is truly an experiment that I conducted to see if I could blend two seemingly opposite styles of music together: wind band music and heavy metal (progressive metal, to be specific). The music starts with low winds playing the main “riff”, which features a unique rhythmic drive and and serves as an unmistakably progressive introduction. As the work develops further, more and more aspects of rock begin to appear. The clearest hint is the snare and ride cymbal groove that starts in the second half of the song, and that’s also where the music starts to get crazy with the time changes. There’s even some moments with polymetric patterns that are a clear hail to progressive metal. And finally, the piece concludes with a wailing clarinet solo over the main riff of the song. There’s plenty of pitch bending and all sorts of shredding to properly emulate a metal guitar solo. An Experiment for Winds and Percussion makes it clear just how well the musical elements of rock and metal can translate to the wind band tradition.

I’d call this experiment a success.


Enjoy!

~Jake

An Experiment for Winds and Percussion (2014)

A rare prog-rock composition by Bunny Knutson
Featuring:
Christo Morehead - Guitars, Piano
Demise O - Drums
Bunny Knutson - everything else

Nova Blister - 2015 Mix

Sounds from Friday afternoon

Become One with the Couch

Realm Of Forms (in Technicolor)

Speed compositions from Bernie Griner and Christo Morehead, Xenochronic Lodge of the Immersion Composition Society in Atlanta, GA. - Decatur/East Side