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Re-issue of an earlier composition for cello and female voice, but I never figured out any real words for the soloist to sing, and then I got this brilliant idea to make it into a theremin. It's a bit of a lament. The title is from a poem I wrote. It's a bit of a lament.

You are in an unfamiliar wilderness, a desert canyon. You can feel the sun on your neck, and the sand under your feet. In order to move on, you need to turn the world upside down. Music from the video game "Percipio", a 3D puzzle platformer from Old Man of the Fire. Published with permission. "Desertum" is Latin for "Wilderness". Check the game out here: https://oldmanofthefire.itch.io/percipio Fo...

You are in a dark and lonely place. The air is so cold you can see your breath. The hair on your arm stands up. In order to move on, you need to turn the world upside down. Music from the video game "Percipio", a 3D puzzle platformer from Old Man of the Fire. Published with permission. "Glacies" is Latin for "Ice". Check the game out here: https://oldmanofthefire.itch.io/percipio Follow the Old Ma...

You find yourself in a thick forest. You can smell earth, sap, and resin. The sun filters through the canopy, and birds are singing all around. In order to move on, you need to turn the world upside down. "Arbores" is Latin for "Trees". Music from the video game "Percipio", a 3D puzzle platformer from Old Man of the Fire. Published with permission. Check the game out here: https://oldmanofthefire....

We are the leaves that float down the stream, sometimes slowly, sometimes over the edge.

I'm calling this a "Concerto" because the cello is the featured player against the orchestra, and "Fantasia" because it seems appropriate: many sweeping melodic themes, no discernable structure, and not part of a larger work Produced for the Composer Contests Facebook group Melody challenge -- all the melodies consist of six notes: C, C#, Eb, F#, G, and A. Painting by Paul Gauguin.

Molly Mullally has a magic bell That calls the boggles in the dell; All she has to do is ring, An’ through the window-cracks they spring, With mossy hair and acorn caps, Tied on their heads with clover straps. They help her bring in beets and squash, Churn the butter, hang the wash; They scrub the pots with bristle-reeds -- They're all the help that Molly needs; With freckled cheeks and beards of...

Rearranged tracks from The Unseen Realm documentary score. "Drive Them Out" - Joshua and the conquest of Canaan, "Day of Atonement" - the establishment of Yom Kippur. Copyright Faithlife Films. Used by permission. See the whole film on Faithlife TV: https://faithlifetv.com/the-unseen-realm

Sometimes it feels like you are in a losing battle with time. Are you waiting out the clock, or is it waiting you out? Composer Chords challenge - only chords rooted on B, D#, F, F#. Went for a lot of 6b5 chords for a nostalgic early 1900s feeling. B6b5, F#6b5, B6b5, F#6b5, D#m7, F#m9/13/D#, B6b5, Fm7b5, F#m9/11, B6b5, F#6b5, B6b5, F#6b5, B6b5; B6b5, F#6b5, B6b5, F#6b5, F#m6/9/D#, B6b5, Fm7b5, F#m...

A night time walk. For the Compser Challenges Chord Dice Challenge: only chords rooted on F#, B, D#, E# (how I'm spelling F because of the key). Main chord progression is: D# min - E# half dim (E# G# B D#) - F# maj - B maj A good number of diminished chords and added 6 chords for flavor.

Try to remain calm while everything falls apart around you. It's important that. You. Try. To. Remain. Calm. If you like Shostakovich or Prokofiev, you might like this. Image from Pixabay: https://pixabay.com/photos/sand-desert-drought-heiss-dry-2329153/

Wait, how can it be a waltz with five steps instead of three? Well, it's a thing. Tchaikovsky did it. Directions here: https://www.libraryofdance.org/dances/five-step-waltz/ Created for the Composer Club "Chords" Challenge, making a piece with only chords rooted on Ab,C,Db and D. So the piece is in Ab major, with a modulation to D in the B section.

An ingenious gentleman, who fights to the death, against all odds. So ingenious, he invents enemies out of thin air. I haven't read Don Quixote, but if I did, I would imagine music like this. Chords are all rooted on A, Bb, C, Db for the Composer Challenge group's chord challenge.

Work in progress. Doggerland was a prehistoric dry land area that connected the British Isles, Scandinavia, and Northern Europe. It was inhabited, probably by Neanderthals and modern humans. It’s now underwater. This piece imagines that prehistoric landscape, in a two-part form. The first half introduces a string of themes, and the second half repeats and expands on them. The first statement runs...

Otters are cute and playful, and also skilled hunters who are at home on land and water. In folklore around the world, otters are often associated with tricksters. [This is a work in progress.]

Made for a composer challenge: Only chords rooted on A, B, C#, and F. Chords are: Variation I A - Bø - A/C# - C# - A - Bo - A - Bø - A - Bo - A - Fo - A - C#7/B - A - C# Variation II A - Bø - A/C# - C# - A - Bo - A - Bø - A - Bo - A - Fo - A/E - F7 - C#7 - A - C#7 - A Variation III A - Bø - A/C# - C# - A - Bo - A - Bø - A - Bo - A - F7 - A7 - Bo, C#7 - Fo, A7 - Bo, A7/C# - F7 - A - Bo - A - F7 Var...

Score and parts available from http://www.gustholdmusic.com/ Wheels hammer lopsided rhythms down the track, repetitive yet evolving. Nnatural wonders parade by: wandering streams, shocks of birch and aspen, bear and moose under sprawling gray skies. We watch round every bend, as any moment it might peek through, a monstrous wave struck by a magic harpoon, frozen, cresting forever over the lonely t...

The entire piece, both solo and accompaniment use only 6 pitches: (C, D, E, G, Ab, Bb). Why? These are the pitches my wife and I have tattooed on our necks (but transposed down a half step so it doesn't have to be in C#!) Details on why those notes here: https://elievans.music.blog/2020/02/17/we-are-a-matched-set/ Sheet music available on request. Soloist in this recording is Juan Rosales from Cos...

The Unseen Realm (https://faithlifetv.com/the-unseen-realm) is a 2019 documentary film adaptation of the book by the same name. It covers biblical topics from a fresh angle. Parts of this track appear in the original score I wrote for the film. (Main title opening sequence.) Watch the film at https://faithlifetv.com today. POSTED BY PERMISSION of the copyright holder, Faithlife Films.

A sad, poignant song. Seems like it would be at home in a requiem. (I was probably thinking of Faure's Requiem some.) Created for the Composer Challenge: Dice roll melody challenge. Melodic notes are only E, F, G, Ab, and Bb. There isn't a key in this so much as a tonal center around Bb. The scale would be something like sharp 4+flat 7. All the chords are built from stacks of perfect fifths. Cello...

The Unseen Realm (https://faithlifetv.com/the-unseen-realm) is a 2019 documentary film adaptation of the book by the same name. It covers biblical topics from a fresh angle. Parts of this track appear in the original score I wrote for the film. POSTED BY PERMISSION of the copyright holder, Faithlife Films.

A ribbon of light stretching out in the darkness, maybe never ending, growing, shrinking, undulating. An old track, newly refurbished.

A loved one had a major mental health break, got some better medicine, and started back on a path to recovery. I wrote this in the middle of it all. Comes in three sections: 1) a little off; 2) increasingly manic; 3) reintegration. Duet for two flutes, in Bb major. Performed by ziczuc, who was timely and professional and very easy to work with. Find her Fiverr profile here: https://www.fiverr.com/...

Chorale and orchestra setting of the first of the seven utterances of Christ on the Cross: Father, forgive them, for they know not what it is that they are doing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayings_of_Jesus_on_the_cross

Composed for a Composer Club challenge from the prompt "Alice goes down the rabbit hole." I took the approach that I thought Lewis Carroll would -- absurdist commentary on contemporary society. I think you'll find all of this very thinly veiled. Story with timecodes that correspond to the music below. -- Down the [Rabbit] Hole [0:00] I was contemplating a nap on a Saturday afternoon, when a rabbit...