w00h00!! ! Atonal music!! !
I can't get musicians to work with on my atonal music, so I'm going the direction of electronic music. I'm learning how to use animation software to create my own visualizations so that my work is more of a multimedia rather than strictly sound art. I'm not a very good visual artist at all, but I figure if I at least try then that's better than nothing. Otherwise, I'm imitating space/ambient music in the vein of Steve Roach--floating soundscapes that are serially organized rather than the more usual tonal and minimalist works out there, and definitely not commercialized (though I don't think I'm above that sort of thing either). My latest creation can be found here if you haven't seen it already:
AngelRho's Space Music #3
I also compose handbell duets, both with my own self-produced tracks and with live orchestra instruments. Also play clarinet and piano, percussion (as long as it doesn't involve drum set), and electric bass. Have bachelor's degree in instrumental music education and master's in music composition and teach piano and violin lessons even though clarinet is my main instrument--working on getting a clarinet student.
If you think you'd like to compose for handbells or clarinet, I'd be happy to work with you and record a demo for you if you need one. I could almost guarantee a performance on bells if you don't mind writing something appropriate for a church worship setting. What I have learned, however, is that bells are extremely difficult to write for, and most of what I've done lately were impromptu 4-in-hand harmonizations of Christmas carols with our 4-in-hand range not exceeding a 10th. That's an easy, simplified technique, but we're more used to doing much more complex things using standard playing techniques such as weaving and switching (weaving is moving a bell to the next bell you want to play, ringing it, picking up the next bell, and returning the first bell to its original position. Switching simply means moving a bell from one hand to another). My handbell partner and I want to start learning traveling-4-in-hand, which is similar to normal 4-in-hand except with the added benefit of being able to change secondary bells in the middle of a phrase if needed, allowing extremely rapid playing. It is a difficult technique to learn, and writing good choreography for travelling-4-in-hand is extremely time-consuming.
On clarinet I can do multiphonics, circular breathing, quarter-tones, timbre variation, and pretty much any whacky thing you can come up with short of damaging the instrument itself.
If you have something on paper you'd like engraved, I'll be happy to do my best if you are able to scan your music and send it as a pdf. I'm not a very good engraver, to be perfectly honest, but I can get a handwritten score into professional notation fairly quickly with respectable results. Anyway I can help, just let me know.
22 Dec 2011, 9:40 pm
