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Hope

DanLisMusic Posted on July 28, 2018September 29, 2018

I’m a terrible activist. I make art instead. Perhaps that is the best way for me to make an impact.

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Stylistic Pluralism Within a Composition

DanLisMusic Posted on May 16, 2018

An investigation into what stylistic pluralism is in music.

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Ryan Carraher – “Alazia” Self-Analysis

ryancarraher Posted on January 3, 2018

Ryan Carraher just finished a new work for solo tenor trombone entitled Alazia. “I figured I would share some thoughts and formal processes I had during the composition process.”

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P.M. Joyce – FairyTale

DanLisMusic Posted on October 19, 2017

P.M. Joyce’s work “Fairytale” is a well-polished work that would work well in a film score.

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Timothy Lee Miller – “Divinitus”

DanLisMusic Posted on October 6, 2017

Firmly rooted in the American Mavericks tradition, this work fuses hymns with polytonality and misalignment, a la Charles Ives.

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Reilly Spitzfaden – Resonances

DanLisMusic Posted on September 23, 2017

Reilly Spitzfaden’s work Resonances is an interesting exploration of instrumental tone and gesture, a cat-and-mouse game of imitation.

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Mitch Weakley – Keys, Strings, Clothespins

DanLisMusic Posted on September 5, 2017

Mitch Weakley’s piece “Keys, Strings, Clothespins” investigates a C pentatonic scale with a flattened sixth step (Ab) through the lens of a prepared piano, and its consequent timbres.