As much as older-school composers (or at least, composers who came up before, say, the 90s) decry the ability to playback from notation programs, I have noticed–I guess I have always noticed this but especially recently–playback has shown me that my harmonic rhythm is usually way too fast. I don’t think this occurs to me […]
This is 1 piece in my Dream Sequence meta-work, consisting of a series of large-scale works. (Also including Dream Mornings for orchestra — completed but never performed, Le Grand Guignol for orchestra with 5 conductors — and Radio Dish, which I am now (2022) working on.) A lot of my music, especially from the past 10 […]
Here is an image with a bit of analysis of the pitch structure in Abstraction 6 for Saxophone and Electronics, specifically the opening few measures. Based on a 9 -voice array. Which is actually 3 3-voice all-partition arrays in counterpoint ( 1 for the SHORT sax notes, 1 for the LONG sax notes, and 1 […]
This is a link to 3 essays, which basically add up to my dissertation paper from 2002. I’m not sure if I will bother to move this into WordPress, but in any case, you can read the paper(s) here.