I just delivered the first set of parts and score to Smith Junior High School here in Mesa, Arizona for a new piece I’m calling Lightworks. The piece is five minutes long, about a grade 3+ (okay, let’s just say it: grade 4), and doesn’t really know what it is. That is, no one seems to know how or what to classify it as. It’s sort of a blend of syncopated melodies, changing time signatures, a machine-like metric pulse, and is (as some have described) reminiscent of a “demented game show from the 50s … where somebody dies if you answer wrong.” 

Curious?

LIGHTWORKS PDF
http://blog.michaelmarkowski.com/media/lightworks_fullscore_20090311_noprint.pdf

LIGHTWORKS MIDI REALIZATION:
http://www.michaelmarkowski.com/music/lightworks.mp3