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ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS
Spectacle Décalé - Trombone Duet
$7.00
Spectacle Décalé is a fun and quirky duet composed to portray the different aesthetics that one would experience at a touring French circus, which was common in America during the late 1800's. These shows would include seemingly strange, mystical, and often very cultural performances put on by the large European circus companies. People from all over came to the large cities to see these shows and these unique people. Much in the same way, this piece was composed to create a very normal, yet still strangely unique duet for both the performers and the audience.
Clown Car - Trombone Quintet/Quartet
$10.00
This lively piece will have the audience in a light mood. Clown Car portrays an unexpected disaster that lead to a less-than-optimal road trip. After a great Thanksgiving break,
a group of five trombonists, including me, were traveling back to college from Orlando, FL to Columbus, Ga for finals week in two separate cars. However, one of the cars got involved in a wreck, resulting in all five trombonists getting into one small car. This would not have been much of a problem, but because of our trombones and luggage, it was a very tight fit. This created a miserable, yet slightly humorous ride, as well as the inspiration of this piece.
a group of five trombonists, including me, were traveling back to college from Orlando, FL to Columbus, Ga for finals week in two separate cars. However, one of the cars got involved in a wreck, resulting in all five trombonists getting into one small car. This would not have been much of a problem, but because of our trombones and luggage, it was a very tight fit. This created a miserable, yet slightly humorous ride, as well as the inspiration of this piece.
This piece originally premiered as a quintet, but has also been reduced to a quartet. The quartet version was premiered at the 2015 Third Coast Trombone Retreat after winning the composition contest for this festival and both versions could be yours for only $10!
mEReLy dUsT - Trombone and Electronics
$15.00
mEReLy dUsT was composed to be a commentary on the often romanticized value of a person's last breath. With the notion that a final breath is simply another breath; instead of being a graceful movement into afterlife, a last breath has no more meaning than the hundreds of thousands breaths that preceded it; these breaths are the ones that matter in a life, not the last. From a compositional viewpoint, the piece was derived from a hexachord based off a pitch class system stemmed from the DNA structures that genetically determine a person's life span, called telemeres. Apart from this hexachord, the composition hints at many Japanese musical ideas such as pentatonic scales and sounds resembling a taiko drum. In Japanese, the number four, used prominently in this composition to determine pitch class, sounds very similar for the Japanese word for death, thus creating superstition around the number four. The orchestration of the tape sounds came from sounds created on a trombone in non-conventional ways, (dragging the bell section across a waxed floor, spinning a rotor cap on a table, popping the slide section, etc.) These sounds were manipulated in ProTools Software and mastered to create the prerecorded accompaniment.
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