Shows
ParticiplesLongingwherein each of 12 performers plays, as slowly as possible, 11 semibreveworths and each pair play 3 semibreveworths together
2020-11-0925 min
ParticiplesMutatingQuiver mutations are algebraic operations on certain types of directed-edge vertex graphs. One may take melodic lines (typically from works employing species counterpoint) and condense them into 'quivers', whereupon they may be mutated. This is such an experiment on the beginning of a 1640's Pavane by C T Padbrué. See
https://mi.doh.so/2020/10/quivering-recreations.html
for the maths!
2020-10-0301 min
ParticiplesHarmingAll seven possible 7th chords turn up in the harmonic minor scale.
Here's a romp, by horseback.
2020-08-1904 min
2020-07-0503 min
ParticiplesBlockingBased on a 22 block combinatorial design of hexachords where each pitch class turns up in 11 of the blocks and where each of the 66 pitch class pairs turns up in 5 of them. Strings slowly and quietly play mainly diatonic triadic subsets of the hexachords, and the winds romp around, Iveslike, with the remaining debris. Thanks very much to Tom Johnson (http://editions75.com) for introducing me to block designs.
2018-08-0403 min
2018-02-2601 min
2017-12-0103 min
2017-09-1803 min
ParticiplesDerangingAn oboe plays an initial derangement (4527136) of an ascending Lydian scale iterated upon itself, producing five further derangements 7156423, 6413752, 3742615, 2675341, 5361274, to end up at 1234567. The bassoon lags a bit, utterly missing the point by playing retrogrades of the oboe's part.
2017-08-0900 min
ParticiplesFloutingExercising woodwind solo kontakt library and musescore software with complex scoring
2017-07-0901 min
2017-06-1408 min
2017-04-1204 min
2017-04-0505 min
2017-03-2403 min
ParticiplesDominatingSestri-Ponente, Genoa, February 1917. The dismal waterspout sucks the tonic water to the dominant overcast.
2017-02-2604 min
ParticiplesLiftingA rework of my earlier 'Stepping' made more appropriate for the kind of anodyne light jazziness expected to lay underneath youtube explanations of how to do things which you really ought to have looked up in the manual
2017-01-0802 min
2017-01-0204 min
2016-12-2012 min
2016-12-2004 min
2016-11-1102 min
2016-08-0405 min
ParticiplesMarinating63bpm dirge in a repeated 8 chord pattern Bbm Gm Eb Cm7 Fm7 Absus4/Db F#m/C# Fm7 celebrating the gradual passing of the Martian machinery
2016-08-0103 min
ParticiplesSploringA submission to Charlie McCarron's Composer Quest Podcast as Quest 19. Under two minutes, midi tracks supplied to some other quester for remix without hearing original mix.
2016-06-0201 min
ParticiplesBackslidingThe percussion part is written for the principal beat/pulse only. Percussion section is centre stage. Saxes and trumpet should form a trio at one side of the stage. Horn and trombone pair off at the other side of the stage. Drummer is expected to do what a drummer does, ad lib, at roughly ten second intervals. Each clique shall be self-contained and unconcerned about the other, although all players will naturally attend to the drummer's pulse.
2016-02-2802 min
2016-02-0505 min
ParticiplesCrumblingSixteen minutes of slow disintegration implemented by a twenty-four piece orchestra
2015-12-0515 min
ParticiplesFallingA brief autumnal piece for Alto and Tenor Saxes, Trombone, Synthesiser and Wildlife.
2015-11-0303 min
ParticiplesSaturniningSix minutes of ambience with Plogue.com's Alter-Ego. An estimable - and free - singing human voice plugin.
2015-10-2306 min