String quartet in E major [details] |
I've been quite happy with the music I had on myspace but it's always nice to make some changes, so I added this little excerpt from a string quartet I wrote as part of a fit to try to shake off the o...
Posted by Blunt Instrument on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 01:12:00 PST |
Ave Maria [details] |
In answer to the throng of intense apathy I have received these past weeks, I have added a new sound clip to myspace... The 'Ave Maria' is one of those texts that has a powerful place in religio...
Posted by Blunt Instrument on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 03:24:00 PST |
Freudian Slip [details] |
This piece is an exercise in vindictive behaviour. I don't remember writing it, but I do remember feeling sore at having my more tuneful efforts criticised in favour of dreary psychobabble-enhanced pi...
Posted by Blunt Instrument on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 12:49:00 PST |
Fugue 8 [details] |
I spent many long hours listening to fugues in my youth. This vice has stayed with me and I still recommend it as an alternative to tobacco. (Moving on to Bruckner symphonies was I guess the equivalen...
Posted by Blunt Instrument on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 03:14:00 PST |
Tota pulchra es |
A short a capella choral motet for 4 parts (SATB) contrasting paralell open fifths (for that special cod medieval sound that works so well in good acoustic) with episodes of imitative polyphony. Whils...
Posted by Blunt Instrument on Sat, 13 Jan 2007 04:04:00 PST |
Insolence [the details] |
Thought I'd better add something of an explanation of the Insolence track. Written for 5 specific performers: 2 flutes, 2 clarinets and 1 bassoon. It very deliberately uses the simplest and cheesiest ...
Posted by Blunt Instrument on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 04:02:00 PST |
Hey Tom, this is Jerry. I'm sure you'll end up great chums... |
Listening to Film Score Monthly's CD "Tom and Jerry & Tex Avery Too!" which is a compilation of Tom and Jerry scores from the 1950s composed by Scott Bradley. I bow down in the presence of a maste...
Posted by Blunt Instrument on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 06:00:00 PST |
A bit about you |
I live to serve thee, oh master. Let me grovel and kerplinkyplonk in your presence. Allow me to ravish thine squelchables and conglomerate your generables. Thou art sweet and wholesome, nature's fines...
Posted by Blunt Instrument on Wed, 03 Jan 2007 02:05:00 PST |
