Sparks Clean Slate
This track is a sample of a more popular style – an R&B/Electronic mashup that features a recording of a heartbeat as the basis for the tempo and feel. Created on Logic with mostly standard sounds/loops and a custom drum...
Project Type: Music Composition
Vidi Aquam
Vidi Aquam was composed for the Ukrainian Chorus Dumka. It is based on sacred texts and written for SATB. The piece will premiere some time next year.
Series in Five
Series in Five was written for the New Jersey City University undergraduate guitar ensemble, but never performed. This piece was inspired by the music of Leo Brouwer mashed with a drum corps. bass drum line. My idea was to treat...
The Allegory of the Cubicle
The Allegory of the Cubicle is my first foray into composing for film, and composing using Logic rather than Sibelius or standard notation. The film is by NJCU Graduate student Raul Garcia, and was originally created with no sound –...
String Quartet No. 1
My first string quartet is based on Winter’s Sky, a piece that I originally composed for my high school woodwind ensemble. The musical ideas, however, were always conceived for strings. As a project for my first year at NJCU M.M....
