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Today we have a submission from Julia at clarinethero.

This is for clarinet, bass clarinet, and bassoon. Personally I think this sounds like a song you would get in a Fantasy type video game. I composed this originally for my college composing class. I was studying music at Stevenson college in Edinburgh in Scotland. I’m really pleased with what I’ve composed. I originally wrote this for clarinet and bass clarinet but then added the bassoon for more support on the bass line. I play clarinet myself so I thought it would be appropriate to write music for it. You can find the score here and the rest of my compositions here on my soundcloud page.

Today we have one more submission from danielgilliam.

This is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless, Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done, Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best. Night, sleep, and the stars. - Walt Whitman

this is the first movement of a three-song cycle. the other two songs: A Night Song and Sleeping.

Today we have a submission from Dylan Neely at potentmedicines.

I’m submitting a multimedia piece entitled “Rat King.” It is a collaboration between myself, a violinist and composer, and the video artist Alex Nathanson.

Here is a direct link to the video: http://vimeo.com/43942454

Rat King is a darkly comic investigation of paranoia, inspired by the experience of sharing one’s living space with rats. Presenting its video using a four-way split screen, reminiscent of a security camera monitoring station, the audio correlates with a variety of soundsources - live contact noise, looped electric violin, prerecorded synthesizers, and processed sound.

Musically, the form of the piece was created in relation with the static and repetitive nature of the video. Transitions are intense or non-existent and thematic ideas return in chaotic guises. Absurdity and anxiety swirl around each other, though I do not know if their relationship is competitive or amiable.

The piece has been performed in a range of venues, including bars, experimental music spaces, squats, and art galleries. It’s been performed in cities including Berlin, Brno, Budapest, Ljubljana, Zagreb, and Vienna.

Today’s submission comes from thetunnelproject.

A few years ago I wrote a series of short solo pieces to be performed in nearby tunnels. I think I had some lofty conceptual statement for it all, but really I just like the acoustics. Still, there is this idea that the main point a tunnel is to get from Point A to Point B, and how often does someone walking through one make a conscious effort to stop in the middle and listen (or just breathe)?

Only one of the pieces made it to performance in its designated tunnel before logistics and time got in the way of the others. It was a clarinet solo called “Child’s Discovery” for Cordonices Park in the Berkeley hills. As a kid I was briefly convinced that the tunnel had monsters in it. So the piece is sort of a dialogue between the excitement of being a kid on an adventure and the fear of getting eaten by a bear or something hiding in there.

http://thetunnelproject.blogspot.com/2011/01/tunnel-project-childs-discovery.html

Today’s submission is from danielgilliam.

Here is one of my songs, “Sonnet” with text by Sharon Cumberland. Gilda Lyons, soprano and Robert Frankenberry, piano. http://soundcloud.com/danielgilliam/sonnet

I feel I should apologize for the lack of posts. I’m currently on holiday and forgot to set up a queue, so you’ll have to forgive me.
A big hello and welcome to our new followers though, and to those of you who still haven’t seen their submissions featured, bear with me, I’ll make sure everything is posted as soon as I get back.
Much love,
-A. 

Thanks to our friend bpcookmusic for today’s submission!

http://soundcloud.com/b-p-cook/is-it-nothing-to-you-all-you

“Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by?” is an electronic piece written specifically for listening while on a Long Island Railroad Train running between Jamaica, Queens and Penn Station, New York. It is somewhat of a personally experienced installation. It is recommended that the listener sit in a window seat and remain extremely observant. Awareness of external sounds and movement is also suggested, however, a more meditative approach may also be taken. At some points, the two may even go hand in hand. I suggest an express train. I also suggest reframing from listening to any other music before or after this piece, at least during this specific segment of ones journey.

All of these sounds come from a single short sound source of tapping on glass. We are often most intimate with glass when riding the train; we are protected in our own little world by this translucent liquid barrier. An imperfect palindromic form encompasses the piece and represents the glass. It also represents a round trip journey, where during the return everything is very different.

Although the title is taken from the bible, the piece is not necessarily intended to be religious. It is, however, intended to provoke thought and reflection.

I have not affiliation with the Long Island Rail Road or the MTA. I have no affiliation with any religious organization. I am not responsible for any injury or inconvenience that may be caused as an alleged result of listening to, or attempting to listen to this piece. I am not responsible for any injury or inconvenience that may be caused as an alleged result of following or attempting to follow this piece’s complementary instructions. Please listen responsibly.

Video version to hopefully come soon!

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