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It’s time to continue our new Composer Portraits episode with Eric L. Scott, today sharing a brilliant work “Industrial Depression”, here at Musica in Extenso.

It was an exciting and interesting Composer Portraits week, here at Musica in Extenso! Our guest-editor was the young and very talented composer, Eric L. Scott! ( @musicalcompositions--eric--scott​ )

It was really wonderful to listen such beautiful piano music! Thank you again!

You can listen Ascension, his new album here:

YouTube Music: https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mNA1PngFS57kBGwX6amNJ5EoR4Q_X0Oj4

This week our guest-composer is Eric L. Scott. He talks about himself in a short presentation:

“Acoustic guitar is my main instrument that I started with at 13 years old. In my late teens I focussed on electric bass, and played in a band for a few years. My interest in writing, recording, and audio engineering began around 16. When I was 25 I joined the Canadian Armed Forces, and served for 7 years. Music was sort of on the back burner for me at that time, but once I was released from the Military, I began focussing on composition again and started taking lessons on piano and cello. Right now Im working on my next album, which is fundamentally based in Guitar and other pitched percussion.”

Today we continue the album-journey with Left behind. This piece is the only song on the album based mainly in acoustic guitar, which is more of the direction upcoming releases will have.

Ascension is based on a descending-ascending piano progression that adds new voices and textures each time around. This song makes me imagine a person who struggles to connect with their reality, eventually discovers a way to escape, and finally ascends to a place that brings them peace from this world. Ascension has more instruments than any other track on the album; a direction I'm taking for upcoming releases. 

An Arch in Time and el Hero are my favourite solo piano pieces on this album. They both presented significant challenges to compose. While el Hero is structured as through-composed and features homophonic harmony and melody as well as some counterpoint, An Arch in Time has more of an Arch structure, with repeating sections, but no clear melody or counterpoint. I hear more of a sole harmonic progression with interesting embellishments.