NES RPG (Spring 2009)
Due to a burglary in my home, I thought I had lost the project I’d been working on for quite a while. I was feeling quite down, so I made NES music to cheer myself up. So this would be my score to a NES RPG if I were ever to make one. Interestingly, I found that writing super low-tech music freed me from many concerns about timbre, so I could focus more on forms and meters than in other “ensembles.”
NES RPG (zip)
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SUNDAY PARK (Spring 2009)
Chen Zou, the artist with whom I worked at the Global Game Jam in Paris, asked me to compose music for an animated short film which was a wedding gift for a friend. It’s a very cute short!
Sunday Park:
ANOTHER WORLD (Fall 2007 – Spring 2008)
My senior project was to write a large piece for the Student Wind Ensemble. I started by planning the project as a whole, and then I wrote the movements over the course of the year. I conducted it at the Student Wind Ensemble’s spring concert. The piece, entitled Another World, is in four movements and is approximately 12 minutes in length. Listen to it at my SibeliusMusic page by opening the “Other Music” book.
PIANO PIECES (Summer 2007)
I stayed on campus and worked with Mark Volker on a music project. My goal was to develop my melodic and harmonic writing by removing instrumentation as a factor. Therefore, I chose to write for the piano… This turned out differently than I thought, since the piano comes with a whole different palette of sounds and techniques. The project turned out to be more of a study of piano writing. I dislike one of the pieces I wrote, but two of them can be found at my SibeliusMusic page by opening the “Piano Pieces (Summer 2007)” book.
SKY COLORS (Summer 2006)
I stayed on campus and worked with Mark Volker on my first music project. This was a study in instrumentation, and I wrote a suite of three pieces for flute, oboe, clarinet, trumpet, horn, trombone, violin, viola, and cello (sorry percussionists!). The suite, entitled Sky Colors, was performed in the spring by university students. Listen to it at my SibeliusMusic page by opening the “Sky Colors (Summer 2006)” book.
