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Time: 10:02
Instrumentation: Piano, effects, cello, violin, tympani [currently]
Composed: Sunday, November 12th, 2006

I'm not sure what to name this yet. I'm working on the National Solo Album Month project of making a solo album in the month of November, from scratch. So I can't use my vault of hundreds of starters that I have. So far I've outlined three or four new pieces on the piano, and this is the most promising one.

I was improvising in the backyard of Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings (which is the 2nd movement from one of his string quartets). This key has some awesome power to it-- it's also used in Liszt's Pathetique Concerto, one of my very favorite pieces.

I haven't exited from it gracefully, yet, but the idea is that it will flow into another piece. The section at 7:00 will be expanded.

Additional horn and synth parts are going to be added throughout-- so far the cello is there, at least when it starts, to outline some counter melodies.

I'm very excited about this.

Composed: 1-8-2006

This is my most recent piece. It consists of a foundation of double-bass parts. Filling that in is an electric piano run through granular synthesis, and several multitracked tenor saxophone parts.

The tenor saxophone trails are whipped around into an additive reverse reverb that creates new harmonies from their existing chords.

In progress.

3 minutes.

The track:
Fleeting Harmonies