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Monthly Archives: November 2011
Friday’s Sounding #14
This is a midi realization of the first one minute of Wheel of Fortune for hi hat and contrabass. The piece is ten minutes in duration. [audio:https://www.markgustavson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/wheel-sounding.mp3|titles=Wheel of Fortune excerpt]
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Tagged bass, contrabass, double bass, duo, hi-hat, jazz, Wheel of Fortune
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Friday’s Sounding #13 (Turkey Ringtone)
[audio:https://www.markgustavson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/new-turkey-ringtone.mp3|titles=Turkey Ringtone]
Posted in Friday's Soundings, Music & Nature
Tagged ringtone, Thanksgiving, turkey call
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Walden Pond
Here is a photo of Walden Pond at dusk.
Friday’s Sounding #12
I composed this one minute piece in 2002 for Chinary Ung’s 60th birthday concert. The piece is titled for chinary and it is for clarinet and percussionist (marimba and vibes). It’s really a study but I would like one day to … Continue reading
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Tagged Chinary Ung, clarinet, commission, for chinary, marimba, percussion, vibes
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Friday’s Sounding #11
[audio:https://www.markgustavson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/sounding-11.mp3|titles=Sounding #11] This is the opening of a piece I composed in 1981 titled A Ray of Rattle, performed by The Performer’s Workshop Ensemble. The piece explores transforming a simple and pure sound, the octave, into a complex sound. As … Continue reading
New Song Using a Bit of Text from “Walden”
Using a bit of text out of “The Ponds” section from Thoreau’s “Walden” for a new song titled As Above, So Below for my Fisherman Songs cycle: Sometimes, after staying in a village parlor till the family had all retired, … Continue reading