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Suite for String Orchestra

https://apricitymagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Suite_for_String_Orchestra_and_Piano.wav 'Suite for String Orchestra' is a an original contemporary orchestra composition score with audio. Creator Commentary Patrick Riley, though an undiscovered compositional voice, has been a very active educator and performer of music throughout his career. As a composer, Riley often attempts to incorporate elements of the styles he performed frequently, which include jazz,… Read More

A Sound Premise

Creator Commentary Patrick Riley, though an undiscovered compositional voice, has been a very active educator and performer of music throughout his career. As a composer, Riley often attempts to incorporate elements of the styles he performed frequently, which include jazz, Latin, and rock. Riley’s compositions are vastly worthy of musical and intellectual analysis for his… Read More

Tendai Rinos Mwanaka Compositions

These Imitations https://apricitymagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Tendai_Mwanaka_These_Intimations_Instrumental.mp3 Logbook Written By a Drifter https://apricitymagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Logbook_written_by_a_drifter.mp3 Huya Titambe https://apricitymagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Huya_Titambe.mp3 These compositions consist of Marimba inspired music, that combines several keyboard sounds like Flute, Horn, Harp, bells, sticks, drums etc and poetry Credits Tendai Rinos Mwanaka is a multidisciplinary artist who works across several forms, literary, musical and visual. Tendai Rinos Mwanaka Compositions… Read More

long radio

‘long radio’ is a sound tapestry marrying analog feedback and electronics with manually arranged loops, originally recorded on cassette tape. It features FM radio, feedback mixing, saxophones, micro cassette, the human voice, and a hardware synth keyboard burying and reviving each other in a rotating manner.

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Incomplete Hexany Chord Catalogue (9:11:13:15)

Incomplete Hexany Chord Catalogue (9:11:13:15) is a multimedia piece inspired by composer Tom Johnson's piece "Chord Catalogue," which explores a microtonal tuning system devised by Erv Wilson called a Hexany. This video was made with Unity and Pure Data. It plays through all possible 2-note chords, 3-note chords, 4-note chords, and 5-note chords, followed by… Read More

Larghissimo in G minor

The composition is written for a chamber orchestra of violins and cellos. The performance is by electronic sound. Photography is credited to Suchoon Mo. Request for sheet music may be sent to: Suchoon Mo - suchoon@aol.com. Credits Suchoon Mo: Music Composition, Photography Larghissimo in G Minor (after Tchaikovsky's Barcarolle) About the Artist Suchoon Mo lives in… Read More

China Chalet

China Chalet Full Score Artist Statement: My scores are created to be inhabited by the imagination. I create a balance between enough and not-too-much information that allows the player to push out into corners, feel comfortable, and almost luxuriate in musical space. With certain aspects of notation left purposely open, the player’s memory must fill… Read More

The Web Opera

Episodes 1 - 3 Music: Michael Roth Libretto: Kate Gale Director: Kate Jopson Cast: Reuben Uy, Adam Von Almen, Stephanie Cecile Yavelow, Molly Connor, Loren Battley, Joyce Lai  Additional texts: Michael Roth, Alex Syiek (Ep2) Director of photography: Dana Fytelson Motion graphics: Lisa Glenn Armstrong (Ep1), Yiyi Shao (Ep2), Christopher Gaal (Ep3), Crazybridge Studios Sound mix:… Read More

Buddha and the Monkey King

Tête à Tête Opera Festival 2020 Composer: Anna Vienna Ho Librettist: Michael CT Lam The Monkey King: Lixin Liu The Buddha/Ruanist: Michael CT Lam Piano: Lingling Yu Conductor/Wooden Fish Player: Anna Vienna Ho Venue: The Cockpit, London Date: Saturday 19th September 2020 Description An adaptation of ‘Journey to the West’ by Wu Cheng’en, one of… Read More