Tag: SounDevotion

Compo, Single Tracks, SounDevotion Competition

Lydia Valley and Lydia Cave

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For SounDevotion Competition Round 49, the round’s theme was orchestral instruments.

This was starting off to be a piece in four movements but I decided that it would be better to have two good and completed movements than four rushed and unmixed ones.

I. Lydia Valley
II. Lydia Cave

The first was supposed to be a Philip Glass or Terry Riley pastiche, but as it turned a little too RPG/Movie sounding I figured it would be better to abandon the proverbial rules and finish what I had than to ruin a style I only have a slight intellectual (not aesthetic) interest in.  In further retrospect, I should have made the mallets sound more accented although that isn’t in the minimalist style.

The second, I decided to take the dare from someone to make a big orchestral climax without the use of a drumset. In fact, I don’t think there is even a crash cymbal.

Holiday, Single Tracks

Darkest Night of the Year

chunter

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In a global culture that gradually moves itself toward 24-hour days that are, on a vast majority, spent indoors, the aspect that maintains our agricultural sense of the harvest is the collection of holidays celebrated around the world between October and January. It is no coincidence that Christmas is four days after Winter Solstice, and that we celebrate the beginnings of hope for a better life and a better world on the darkest night of the year.
An interpretation of Stille Nacht by Josef Moht and Franz Xaver Gruber.

I made this for SounDevotion’s holiday-themed round 34 last year.  There’ll be another for this year too.