Shadow Scores

In this episode of Shadow Scores, SRNMC steps behind the score of Shadow Interludes: Six Movements for Woodwind Quartet , the next release in the Shadow breathing cycle. Diving into Ventus I–VI, the episode explores the most literal instrumentation in the cycle so far: flute, oboe, clarinet, and bassoon shaping breath into structure. From 60 BPM design logic to the intimacy of instruments that can...

In this episode of Shadow Scores , SRNMC steps behind the score of Shadow Intervals: Six Movements for String Quartet , the next release in the Shadow cycle. Expanding from solo piano to string quartet changes the mechanism: bows sustain what keys can’t, breath cues become distributed across four voices, and structure lives in the space between events. The episode unpacks the Chorda listening map...

In this episode of Shadow Scores , SRNMC takes you behind Shadow Etudes: Six Movements for a Quiet Mind and the mechanics that shaped it: solo piano, everything in C major, and a 60 BPM pulse where one beat equals one second and breath becomes form. Time signatures shift inside a single shadow arc, while a bassline motif rises, sustains, and descends to quietly guide the mind.

What happens when equations start to dance? In this debut episode of Shadow Scores, I take you inside Newton’s Laws Dance Suite by SRNMC, a composition born from the collision of physics and music. What started as a university project has since been expanded, orchestrated, and reimagined into a full suite, where inertia pulses in hypnotic quavers, force explodes in sforzandos, and action and react...