Hello everyone, I am new here. Here is an auto-bio: Cellist James Alexander is a performer, composer, improviser, and ethnosonicologist. Winner of the Eight-Minute competition at the inaugural Asian Classical Music Initiative International Conference,
I wrote this piece about 25 years ago and as part of a recent sweep through my older compositions have made some revisions, though it is largely the same as the original. Ballad is an attempt to write a slow romance kind of piece. I
Hello everyone, I'm Maltese and started composing in the early '90s with electronic music, still do today. However at a young age, I was fascinated by listening to soundtracks at the cinema, and today with the possibili
I know there have been a lot of fugues posted here of late and I don't mean to overdo it, but hopefully this extremely NON-Baroque take will be different enough to warrant a spin.
WARNING: If you are expecting a piece that "sounds like" Frank Zappa,
I'm on my never ending quest to make living classical music more popular, so...
I know I can create works that are equal in complexity, diversity and aurally enjoyable by writing everything in free form or a simple form like ABA. Is the sonata,
One of Bach's greatest creations certainly is his "Musikalisches Opfer", and in particular the Ricercare for 6 voices ("Ricercare a 6 voci"). But apart from one performace by piano I never heard a rendition which I really liked.
I still don't finding these pieces to show a subtle hand in the carving, but there are, it seems, some interesting twists and turns - as it relates to the promt.
although the convention for this forum seems to be to write short works, I simply don't operate like this and (apart from the occasional song or piano piece) always think on a larger scale. My latest completed work is as much influenced by the partic
A year or so ago I met a now dear friend of mine at an online film music forum. As it turns out, I had never met anybody so genuinely interested and knowledgeable about film scores in general, and John Williams in particular, who is al
I just acquired an iPad pro 11" with pencil as I'm starting a transition to audio workflows into the iOS environment. One somewhat related app I'm kind of curious about is Staffpad, particularly because it would enable me to compose at the pia
I generally write pretty cheerful music but I had an idea that sent me in the opposite direction a few years ago. Back when I was in Junior High School and devouring everything musical I could find, I had a number of real favorites that I had
The recent discussion about modernizing fugues inspired me to write something completely outside of my usual comfort zone: a borderline atonal piece that uses cluster chords as part of the fugue subject and disregards any vertical intervals between v
I hesitate to post audio files of vocal pieces here since I have to use choral ahs for the vocals, thus imposing yet another layer between the audio file and what an actual performance would be. But such files p
I've come across a call for scores which specifies that they are "seeking a song with a beautiful, mystic melody and lyrics in the the class of the Nancy Sinatra performed ’Summer Wine’ (written by Lee Hazlewood) or ‘Bang Bang’ (by Sonny Bono). Accor
