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New uploads - Tonal
Posted on June 25, 2012 at 6:53pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
Just uploaded a few of my strictly "tonal" pieces at request of friends here. However I reserve the right to use any idiom that suits the need and situation!
Music for Art Exhibit: Memoir of the (20th) Century
Posted on March 17, 2012 at 2:00pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
The music I just uploaded was written in 1980 for a large art exhibition in London titled Memoir of the Century -- by visual artist Felix Topolski http://www.topolskicentury.org.uk/ We worked together from 1978-1980 to envision a "sound-scape" for his Memoir.
I developed this music to match the architectural aspects of the murals as spatial/architectural music -- similar to the concept Giovanni Gabrieli used when he wrote for…
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- What have you composed for? Or what medium do you work around?
- Television, Multimedia, Choir, Small Ensemble, Songs, Contemporary Ensembles, Other
- What is your favorite genre or style of music?
- most everything if its good!
- Is music your main income source?
- Sort Of - Music Related
- Where do you live?
- California
- About Me (MUST be more than 10 words to be approved):
- In brief I have been a musician since childhood, play several instruments, have taught music for 3 decades, studied composition for 12 years with a master composer from major symphony and have written a modest amount of music for several idioms. I've had a career in television production and am just lately returning to composition after several years break.
- Website:
- http://www.creativefilms.com
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I enjoyed the variety of your music. Thanks a bunch!
P.S. I also wanted to thank you for your explanation of the significance of the individual pieces from "Memoir." I am sure hearing the work in its fully complexity-- various parts from different angles, in the context of an exhibition-- is a wonderful experience (perhaps a bit like seeing/hearing the early public audio-visual work of Edgar Varése).
Hello Bentrup Gray,
It's fortuitous that you just left a welcome message on my page. I was thinking of leaving you a message just yesterday after I heard parts of your Memoir. (I don't recall how I stumbled onto your page). I started with the violin and synth, then listened to the 02 War Years, and ended with Memoir 01 Voice. They were all superb, I thought. I most enjoyed War Years and Voice. The mix in War Years of Buddhist chanting, marching, German and Italian oratory, sirens, crowds yelling slogans and operatic aria was most effective and moving. I listened to that several times. The voice in 01 was most plaintive. I heard that one twice. I am impressed with the work. What was the question you had for me, though? Something about the profile page. "Meaning?" The page has just been started, and I am learning how to set it up. I am sure what you want to the know the meaning of.
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