November 2011
5 posts
Luke Bergman, December 4th, 2011
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Lately at Racer Sessions I have been focused on improvising with a simple approach: beginning to play without planning anything and taking whatever it is that I play in the first couple seconds and using only that idea for a long time. I like to think about stretching the phrase length out to infinity and developing my initial idea with a rate of change that’s very...
Ivan Arteaga - November 27th, 2011
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I do not consider myself any form of composer, and hardly think of myself yet as a student of composition even though I just started composition studies at the UW. I realize however, that the way in which I think about music and improvisation - even how I’ve been rehearsing in the past - is very compositional. For my session, essentially I am going to share the work I’ve...
Brandon Lucia - November 20th, 2011
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I will be presenting two new pieces of music this week.
No Air, Movement 3: Light and Motion
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When I last curated the Racer Sessions about 6 months ago, I presented a piece called No Air. No Air was written for the Chango, which is a program that I made...
Brennan Carter - November 13th, 2011
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Greetings!
Recently, when sitting down at the piano I have been really drawn to the sounds of polytonality. I would like to explore these sounds in ways other than my left and right hand, and include other musicians. I will have a structured form for a poly tonal “free” piece. The instruments will be divided into bass instruments and treble instruments, each...
Greg Campbell - November 6th, 2011
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We’ll be doing two pieces, each inspired by ideas from different composers.
The first piece has two inspirations. The first is Henry Threadgill, who has offered the compositional world many ideas over the last forty years or so, and I’m borrowing only one — the ideas of pairs within a larger ensemble, creating tiny “sections.” (Others have...