Music In Me
arrangement for soprano and piano, with optional flute
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Music In Me
Sonnet 8 / Music (Susan Maurer)
Rockin'
Flute Club
Flute Club comes from the tradition of composers working with popular dance forms. From the minuet and the gigue, to the waltz and the foxtrot, to the bolero and the tango, there is a rich history of music written in these forms. Now, one of our modern forms—the dance club—is explored as the basis for a new work. The thumping “four-on-the-floor” bass pounding out every beat, the droning, looping synth lines, the harmonic stasis, and the seemingly boundless energy of this style come to the fore here.
Caffeine Jitters
Belding is a small town in West Michigan. In an effort to create more awareness and appreciation for jazz, the high school's band director (Jonathan Schnicke) instituted a concert series that emulates a coffee house setting for the music. The band takes over the school's cafeteria, decorating it in a coffee shop motif. The art department sets up a display of students' work (often for sale). And a coffee counter—selling brewed coffee, espresso drinks, and various cold beverages—is set up to one side.
Flurotica
Flurotica was composed for Rebecca Ashe to play at Electronic Music Midwest in 2010. She is a performer with a distinct performance presence and the ability to pull of a piece with some crazy staging. I took this opportunity to compose something a little different, something that includes some theatrical staging and performance. For this project I repurposed the musicI had created for Two Burlesques, eliminating the video and adding a flute part.
Solace
Composed for the Bateira Trio’s Fifteen Minutes of Fame
Survival Machine
Commissioned by Dr. Susan Fisher at OSU for her biology course, this piece used Max/MSP to generate music based on DNA segments. The music does not have a one-to-one correspondence with segments of the DNA code, instead it will use the process of DNA translation as a metaphor for the compositional process.
