Tonight’s piece marks the first time I have recorded a piece with Saxophone in ten years. My old Sax had started falling apart, and the potential cost of refurbishment along with the Progressive Metal focus of the Cumulo-Nimbus years meant that I just never got round to doing anything about it.
I keep missing so many that I can’t keep track of the number I should be up to any more, so from now on I’ll just refer to them by their filename – which is the date they’re written.
This week’s effort is very short (40s), but it achieves the [...]
It’s Tuesday! (or it was, four hours ago) and I actually have a piece ready!
This was another 11 hour marathon, though I actually had all the ideas in place in the first hour. I’m not really sure what happened to the hours between 8 and 12…
Anyway – this [...]
This one is very short I’m afraid – once again I came up with a nice idea, but completely failed to develop it. However, since the spirit of this exercise is to produce something no matter how short, here it is.
It’s a quartet for cello, two flutes and clarinet [...]
So after more than two years, I’ve started the Tuesday Challenge thing (which I still need to find a better name for) again.
This one is just a short improvisation on clarinet and guitar, with a Pink Floyd influenced feel – so well and truly in my comfort zone.
The [...]
