Shut Up and Ask Her - My jazz combo of a few years ago, The Watchtower plays a composition of mine. I'm on tenor, Bryan Wong on alto sax, Justin Hellman on piano, Dai Chihara on drums, and the piano player was just sitting in with us; I can't remember his name. Not a perfect recording, and there's some slop, but I like this tune a lot. It's solidly in the key of F, but the only F chord is the very last chord in the piece. I used some tritone substitutions and other trickery to work around it. The piece was written and arranged by me in fall 2001. (8.3MB .mp3 file).
d/dt - Music from a picture. Somewhat weird academic-electronic-music composition of mine. The piece was composed by drawing a picture on the frequency/time plane of the sound-space; amplitude is given by pixel intensity, left-right panning by color, frequency is the vertical axis, time the horizontal. Then you just need to do a little inverse fourier transform and you're in business. It's not the easiest way to compose, but it gives you access to a very large sound-space, which includes a lot of sounds that are hard to come by using "traditional" means. (1.4MB .mp3 file).
Dots and Boxes (Multiple Choice) - More academic computer music, this one exploring the sound-noise continuum a bit. Careful not to play it too loud, as it has a bunch of non-rolled-off low frequencies that could damage your speakers even if you can't hear them. On the other hand, it's cool to watch good speaker cones move at 10Hz. Don't worry though, "normal" listening volumes won't damage anything. (3MB .mp3 file).
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The Cat - a twelve-tone setting of a translation of a poem by Issa, an 18th century Japanese poet, for voice (soprano) and bass clarinet. Part of a twelve-tone song cycle that I've been intermittently working on for quite some time, this is the only bit that's really truly finally complete for sure. If you're curious about what it vaguely sounds like, here's a midi file, though the computer can't handle playing back one of the out-of-meter figures properly, so it's slightly botched, and I'm not going to waste my time fixing it. *I* know what it sounds like :?).
