
Compositions
Here
are some of my Compositions! Enjoy
Works written with and for
young people
Gault Elementary,
Grade 1, Lisa Jones & Charlene Oatey, 2009
Corn
is the Corniest
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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.
Piece for saxophone quartet inspired by a dream I had where
there was this 2 foot long silver rainbow furred bug who existed between dimensionsand
would hang out on my arm and let me pet him while he game me advice, a very
important car mirror, and captain Jean-Luc Picard.
Someone played one of my string quartets! My hair was beaming
with joy.
Here's My New Saxohpone Quartet, or at least the first two
movements...
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.
Track
1 Narrator
Track
2 Lisa's Rant
Track
3 Stephen's Bag
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4 A Heated Conversation
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
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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
:)
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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

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