Danse de Cleves
Experimental composition, using the old dance tune
Danse de Cleves with added digeridoo.
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with musical impro
by D W Solomons
Hand to Mouth
(improvisation for hand to mouth sounds, guitar and other instruments)
Story behind the piece:
Well, it's just an improvisation... what can I say? I sampled the sound of my hand tapping my open mouth and it went on from there....
Octoboogy
for trumpet, electric guitar and jazz band
Story behind the piece:
A boogie woogie in Octatonic mode, with very slight cheeky hints at Cliff Richard's "Living Doll". This was originally written as a midi file for a "La Musique Petite" challenge. Thanks to the increased qualities of Finale 2004 it is now a fairly "respectable" mp3 file. It is not intended for live performance, for reasons which will be obvious when you hear it. However, this electronic version is fun and well worth the download!
Tree
Experimental composition, created initially as a midi file using a fractal music creation programme, using its "tree" parameters.
Once I had discovered certain DXi programmes, especially the Delay Lama, and soundfonts such as "skat", I reallocated some of the parts to those to create this soundscape which is half fractal and half improvisation, with a hint of a hornpipe. .
Palindromic cat processor
A soundscape starring Themba, the vocal one of the family
Dance of the Washerwomen
[based on the lute piece by Hans Neusidler]
arranged and complemented for various "ethnic" instruments.
Story behind the piece:
Hans Neusiedler [or Neusidler] wrote a lovely dance for lute [or vihuela] called
Dance of the Washerwomen -
but I leave that to the judgment of those more knowledgeable about such things . . .
The piece works nicely anyway! The form is a 4/4 theme followed by a 3/4 hupfauf [hop up] in faster tempo related to the first tune, then it returns to the original theme.
