i will wade out

So this piece took a long time to figure out in my head...like I posted earlier the Eric Whitacre version is so good and captures the feeling so well it was hard to find something new and different to say. But the poem is so beautiful and deep that I really tried my best to bring out the natural beauty of the text. I did some very different things than what i usually do. There's a lot more tonal shifting than I usually do, with a few really dramatic harmonic shifts. I'm really trying to expnad my musical language and this was just another step. I'm pretty happy with my work, and it can be found posted first on my myspace music page.

Frustrations

I'm trying to write a new choral piece, based on e.e. cummings poem "i will wade out" and it's frustrating as hell because all I can think of is Eric Whitacre's setting. I've already documented how much admiration I have for the man, but not only that, he does things with his music that are just so intrinsic to what I feel the lyric he's chosen needs. Like he just pulled out the most beautiful sounds of the text already, and I'm left with the leftover sounds. I love this poem though, so I'm mining the depths to see what I can draw from it.

Pieces and Twitter

I've been writing bits and pieces a bunch lately. I have a million ideas but not much that I can follow through with. If you've been following my twitter, it's been a cool resource for on-the-fly thoughts I'm, having. I do need to post here more, but I can't really report anything especially new musically. I'm having trouble writing instrumental parts (piano, etc) and I'm not really in a place where choral music is flowing freely.