New Piece — “Memento”
For the past two months, I’ve been working on adapting a more lyrical piece that I wrote for a short film, Sitting, into a more lyrical piece for concert band. After orchestrating a direct transcription of the piece, it sounded too “dream-waltzy” — fine for short, artsy film, but a little cheesy for a beefy band. So I scrapped the transciption and decided it would be more effective to start over and rethink the piece while still containing the melodic and motivic ideas in Sitting that kept haunting me. I’ve just completed a first draft of the piece and now I’m in the process of going back through it fixing orchestration and cleaning up the messy score, but I hope to have a final draft within the month. For a tease, below is a MIDI realization presented in MP3 format of the last two minutes of the piece **spoiler alert**.