In my composing work, I feel incredibly fortunate to have had most of the pieces I’ve composed performed at least once. This is a post about the opposite — pieces I’ve composed that haven’t (yet) been performed. A playlist of score videos awaits.
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Enter The Fadolín – Behind The Tracks – Midnight Suite
A “Behind the Tracks” post about Ljova’s three-movement “Midnight Suite”, and the atmosphere behind the music.
Enter The Fadolín – Behind The Tracks – Playground Móòd
A “Behind the Tracks” post about “Playground Móòd”, improvised in April 2020 during the height of the pandemic’s first wave.
Enter The Fadolín – Behind The Tracks – Going Home / Light
Continuing the thread of “Behind The Tracks” posts about my new album “Enter The Fadolín”, this post focuses on two tracks that go back-to-back, hand-in-hand:
“Going Home -> Leaving Home -> Finding Home Again” and “Light”
Listen to them both below as you read this post.
Low Gear jamming (Zoom >< Skype) with Ljova and Zisl
This image looks like two musicians on a Zoom call, but with a twist — we can play at the same time and actually hear each other! How is this possible? The answer, as the modern parlance goes, may surprise you —-> we’re also connected on Skype! Allow me to explain —
Music to Zoom By
As colder weather returns to the East Coast and the pandemic shows no signs of slowing down, I’m putting together this post to share with you the three pieces (so far) that I composed to be performed live, over Zoom..
The Early Voter – and a belated Happy Halloween
Friends, Today is the last day of early voting in NYC — polls are open…
New Interview: on film, music and the creative process
Friends — here’s a new interview in which I talk about film, music, and the…
Ljova’s Instagram miniatures
I’ve been using Instagram as my on-the-go sketchpad of sorts, making 1-minute (or shorter) loop-minded tunes — here are a few and I’ll add others as they avail themselves.
Meditation on Kol Nidrei
Doubt, confusion, an inner repentance – these were the themes I tried to work with in creating my “Meditation” on this most solemn prayer, recited on the Jewish day of Atonement, Yom Kippur. In my composition, the traditionally familiar motifs are fragmented, inverted, and fused together in a way that is connected by question marks. Will we be forgiven?