December 2010
11 posts
WatchMy niece, who is an accomplished classical pianist attending Mannes in NYC, and I had some fun re-creating a compositional technique known as a phasing pattern on the piano. Listen to how phasing creates or unveils other patterns we are not “technically” playing. For more information on this awesome phenomenon. Look up “phasing” on wikipedia. The relevant subject includes the...
Improvised sketch: “Peace”. Written...
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Malice's Book Vignette # 1 →
Malice (Clipse) is releasing a book called WRETCHED PITIFUL POOR BLIND and NAKED! He is promoting this release with video blogs and book vignettes. He asked me to help him flesh out a melody he was hearing. This short piano idea supporting the vignette is the result. Please check his website out. It’s intensely moving. The thing about faith is, you can never argue with someone about it...
Winter.
Dressed up in my mind I watch the winter waves crash And dive underneath Swim until I can’t Clothes become the end of me Cold in, cold out, I’m done Sinking feeling now Return to where I belong I have loved the sea Welcome me home please Darkness cover me like sleep Sweetness of relief.
“To die, to sleep
No more – and by a sleep to say we end
The heartache and the...”
– Hamlet