The Art of Noise by Meerenai Shim Purchase the score and performance media here Program Notes Mercurial is a journey leading towards serenity. The plaintive tune at the beginning of the work is accompanied by ominous and unsettling flute moans. Suddenly a rhythmic groove erupts and pushes the soloist into a driving and forceful state of mind. The soloist strives for the contemplative music of…

Some behind-the-scenes from a quadrophonic fixed media piece of mine (a little less than a year old)

jaybatzner · Roger's Thesaurus Revised score coming soon Range: F4 – F5 “Roger’s Thesaurus”In order to grow, expand, widenhis lexicological corpus,Roger bought, acquired, purchaseda synonymopedia, a thesaurus.In order to grow, expand, widenhis lexicological corpus,Roger bought, acquired, purchaseda synonymopedia, a thesaurus. Soon, presently, without delay,he no longer ran out of things to…

jaybatzner · Selecting A Reader/A Widow Download the score – Selecting a Reader/A Widow Range: D4-F-sharp 5 Program NoteI have this collection of poetry from Pitt Press that I’ve been reading and reading since about 1992. A few poems by Ted Kooser caught my mind and I filed them away for a future text setting. When Katherine Crawford asked me to write a piece for her and electronics, I decided…

jaybatzner · Flute Download the score – Flute (fixed media track available upon request) Program NoteComposed for Katherine Crawford and given its premiere performance at Electronic Music Midwest in 2013. The poetry is by Robert Fanning and is included in the score. Special thanks to the Freesound.org users ethang, laureci, ephemeral-rift, and sandyrb for their sonic contributions and to Laura…

Getz Variations — Dexter Morrill

Recently I’ve been working on a very interesting piece for tenor saxophone and fixed media by Dexter Morrill called “Getz Variations.” The piece was written for Stan Getz in 1984 and features samples of Stan himself playing in the audio track. The score has very little notated lines for the saxophonist to play, and instead functions more as a ‘map’ of what’s going on in the audio track. The…