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Joel's Compositions Joel's Performances
Here are some of my Compositions! Enjoy
The Cannabis Cantata
These recordings are from the 4/20/2007 performance. Read My Thesis Essay for details on this composition. Here is a PDF of the score.
More Tracks to follow as I finish mixing.
Antecedent (score) was performed by New Music Works at their Sound Horizons 2006!Antecedent is an indeterminate game piece for 1-25 musicians. They didn't play it by the rules exactly because they didn't have much time to rehearse it. To see the piece and the rules, download the pdf of the score here.
Movement III For Shiva is in progress
The Great River is a setting of a rabindrinath Tabore poem for the above ensemble sans saxophone plus cello and Sheila Willey as mezzo soprano. This is the final performance of the piece at a New Music Works Concert April 1st 2005. An earlier reading of the piece for the Sound Horizons 2004 competition is here
A sunny Day was a project I worked on long ago with My good friend Celeste Lear. <---(her website is so cool!) Its Electronic and Accoustic elements make it a unique and worthwhile piece.
Meson Cannon is one of three (so far) of my "Cannon Canons." - For 6 pianists on 2-3 pianos. (This is a midi rendering, so keep an open mind)Want to play it? It's tough I think. Please contact me if you do. Please please please. And here's the score.
Limilate is a Saxophone Quartet I wrote. It is based on a 5-note Berber scale - Do Re Fi Sol Ti -
or 0 2 6 7 11 for you pitch class people. This recording was done at my UCSC senior recital 4/4/04 and is cut off at the end (GRRRRGARAGRGARAGAAAAA!) but gives a good idea. I will post the sheet music for this quartet some time. Contact me for the score if you want to play this :)
NounVerbNoun (the title is a mad lib with suggestions taken from the audience) is a conducted improvisation I put together for any amount of instrumentalists and audience. This opened my recital. It's me on Soprano sax solo, Rebecca Stuhlbag (my sweety) on voice solo, Ebba Peterson on ContraBassoon solo, and Harlan Otter on Piano solo. Will post this along with some other improv games soon as well. Contact me for the score if you want to play this :)
The Northeastern Distributions of Jellybeans is found here hin 9-part saxophone format as performed by the UCSC Saxophone Ensemble. It is basicaly a funk tune as a programmatic setting for a children's story which is an allegory for the continual evolution of the doctrine of spirituality. The story goes : These people made some jellybeans in Mane. "These are very good jellybeans," they said. Their friends liked them too! They took the jellybeans to the king of candy. The king put the jellybeans to a test. First, the jellybeans were tested for texture and consistency. Then they were checked for color and shape. Finally...they were eaten! And the jellybeans were good. The King declaired that the jellybeans would be the new national candy for one year's time. The maker of 'Mango Rope' was a little sad, until he tried the jellybeans. He xclaimed, "jellybeans for everyone!" And there were. (here in the piece, jellybeans were distrubited to the audience). Back to the factory...
Shadowflight Movement 1 Is a combination of music I wrote for a video game project I was involved in years ago with my friends Lion Kimbro and Marcus Slagel. I arranged parts for the UCSC Wind Ensemble directed by Robert Klevan (I had the honor of conducting this performance) and added much new music to it, with aeleatorics and such. There are two other movements on the way.
Waking the Jaunt and Zedzig is a piece describing a pleasant day in Big Sur, California. It is for Saxophones, clarinet, flute, harp, piano, percussion, violin, bass, and maybe some other things. I wrote this for New Music Works, directed by Phil Collins. They gave it a reading at their 2003 Sound Horizon's competition. If you have an ensemble that would like to play this, LET ME KNOW!!!!
joel.ford@gmail.com
