May 19, 2008

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Rhythm -- Tonight I found myself thinking about a piece I wrote in 2004 called The Rhythm Variations. It's a series of variations on George Gershwin's I Got Rhythm for solo piano. It occurred to me that this 60x365 is not my first exploration of short forms. One variation lasts only 20 seconds.

So I pulled out that variation (cleverly titled The Shortest Variation) and made three quick recordings of it. These are heard back-to-back over a collage from another piano recording of mine. Enjoy.

(If you are interested, you can see a score and read more about The Rhythm Variations here.

January 17, 2008

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Nostalgia - I don't usually like to post works-in-progress here, but time's gotten away from me so I'll put this piece up now and polish it more later. Stay tuned.

December 30, 2007

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Grow -- With today's piece I enter the second half of this podcast project. I decided that this is the perfect opportunity for me to compose a piece using notes and pitches rather than simply using sounds and samples. It may seem like a subtle and meaningless different for the listener. For the composer though, there are some important differences, the foremost being that I first created a notated score from which I performed the music for this recording. Enjoy.