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Jung Again

October 2006

Finished! Find the new release Jung Again here.

August 2006

One transition down, just a few to go. The main sections are written, so I'm writing the transitions as I enter and polish the final version in my sequencing software. Here's a clip of the first transition.

July 2006
I'm working on the first of what is now a suite of semi-related short pieces. The first piece will have four sections, all of which have been sketched. Now I'm working on the transitions which is where a composer friend of mine says the game is won or lost. Here's a clip of a chord progression I'll be using in the third section. True to my original intent, the chords are not simple triads but stack four or five tones instead.

June 2006

Change-up time. I've decided to make this a suite of semi-related short pieces. Movements in classical works don't always relate to one another musically but still manage to fit together anyway. Now that I've broken this work apart, I find myself anticipating later melodies in the subsidiary lines of earlier parts, so there will be some tying together and stitching into a whole. New territory for me; I haven't worked this way before. Kind of a middle ground between my usual episodic procedure (sections related by mood but not musical ingredient) and the systematic motivic development I achieved in March of the Triumphant. Here's a clip of a cool line I came up with.

April 2006

I finished generating new ideas and let my inner editor take over. I picked out 14 of the best ideas, which was still too much to work with. So I'm starting with just three ideas, which seem to make a beginning, a middle, and an end. Now it's a matter of finding ways to get from the chords in one section to the next and deconstructing the melodies to see what cells or patterns I can put to various uses. I also found some commonalities in the rhythms, so I'll be able to tie things together with that element, as well (unity and contrast, as always, being the goal). Percussion will be minimal as most of the ideas I got are very subdued. Click here to listen to a sketch of the beginning.

March 2006

After my latest release Reunion, I started working on a new piece with more complex harmony than I've undertaken before. I've gone just about as far as I can with simple triads. My goal in the new piece is to stack 4 or 5 tones (7ths, 9ths, whatever) instead of the usual three. I went through some Bach chorales, a Stevie Wonder book, and a Duke Ellington piece to see how they handled melody while using complex chords. I went through a jazz book to get some ideas for unique sonorities. I'm getting arrangement ideas from some Haydn scores. Lastly, I've gone through my synthesizer sound bank and selected a new set of sounds that I haven't used before. People like it when I write for percussion so I definitely want that in the new piece. I'm still generating ideas with all these ingredients and have not yet begun the process of winnowing them down and developing the good ones. Click here to listen to a sketch of one idea that may make the final cut.