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UPDATE: Much wider selection of (20+ full length) tracks now (4May2006) available at my tagworld profile.
I'm terrible at autobiography, so I won't waste your time or mine attempting one here. What I will try to do, however, is describe the pieces I've selected to upload. Due to unrelenting tendencies toward perfectionism, I'm never satisfied with any of my works, so it's very difficult to sort through my musical creations (attempts) and pick only four as representative. For this reason, I may from time-to-time rotate tracks out in favor of others, new or old. Fair warning, also: the sound quality on these recordings leave a bit to be desired since many of the instruments are unfortunately synthesized, as I don't have live/acoustic recordings for the orchestral instruments. But anyway, about the pieces themselves. The newest piece, "Ευτερπη" for piano quartet, was written as a gift for a friend; it's dedicated to her, musa musicæ mea, with the hope that she, and you, might enjoy it. Nevrosa, is a work for solo piano. Unfortunately, myspace won't seem to allow me to use the necessary unicode characters to show this track's actual title (thus the transliteration used here) or explain it in somewhat more detail, so, for the nonce, if you'd like to know more about this one---including the Romanian poem which inspired it (with a translation)---please feel free to read the related blog post about it on my tagworld profile. The third track, "Luctus", is a simple piano piece that was recorded this evening (July 2nd, 2005). Not the best of recordings, but as it's not the best of compositions, either, I suppose it's a good match. Cor carians, is the lengthiest of the four at 9' 3"; its instrumentation is piano, a bit of harp and strings. The piece is an experimentation with Arvo Pärt's technique of tintinnabulation, and an exploration of the C minor triad in that light; equally inspired by Pärt, it relies heavily on meaninful tacits and sustained notes. Speaking of---I should perhaps point out, as this seems to throw some people off, there's a somewhat lengthy tacit near the end (following what most seem to think the end) of this track, following which is a closing piano segment; which is just to say, if you actually manage to listen to that much of the score, please be aware that the termination of the strings is not the termination of the track. This piece was completed in Dec. 2003. Comments on any of these works are always welcome.
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