Posts Tagged ‘quartet’

New Quartet Arrangements

November 18th, 2013

First of all, some exciting news… I’m engaged! We’re currently in full wedding-planning mode with the date set at March 29th. Part of the ceremony is going to involve the Echelon String Quartet, including two new arrangements. In the spirit of getting things DONE, I completed both in a stupidly busy week.

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New of the North Videos

March 15th, 2013

There are three new Of the North videos after our last gig, which was March 14th at the Up and Under on Brady St. Oh, and there are two bonus videos of the Echelon String Quartet performing some of my arrangements as they opened up for us! We had the full 7-piece band, now including Tyson on additional percussion, and we even closed the show with two Of the North songs that I arranged to include quartet. Read the rest of this entry »

Maps

April 22nd, 2012

An arrangement of “Maps” by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs for string quartet. The MIDI rendering was done through EWQL Symphonic Gold and the performance is by the Echelon String Quartet.

MIDI Rendering

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Swallowed

April 9th, 2012

One of my favorites but an overall lesser known song from Bush, “Swallowed” was a lot of fun to arrange for quartet. The original has some interesting tertiary harmonies which I extended in some parts of the arrangement.

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Cosmic Love

September 15th, 2011

I arranged Florence and the Machine’s “Cosmic Love” for the Echelon String Quartet and they have since added it to their regular repertoire. This video comes from a Halloween themed event called the Barn Owl Ballyhoo in October of 2011.

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Inside and Out

March 8th, 2008

This piece is my first attempt at writing for string quartet after years of experience playing in quartet settings. I decided to focus on ostinato and repeated material throughout the piece, hence the title. I created scales for each movement by using pitch sets separated by a major second, beginning with minor third sets for the first movement.  Read the rest of this entry »

Serenade in F Minor

February 11th, 2008

Revolving around only one pitch set (F, G, A-flat) which is transposed throughout the piece, this serenade might be the pinnacle of consistent composing and artistic expression in my serenade writing.

Serenade in Fm rendered through EWQL Orchestral Gold:

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