Testing Sound Cloud
I’ve had an ongoing question about how to present large audio files on this site. Right now I’ve got small ones hosted myself that play as simple streaming files. For larger files, easier sharing, and on the general principle that you should embed media, not host it, I’m trying out SoundCloud today. They seem pretty...
Seafarer Old English recording
I’m still on a quest for an Old English reading of the Seafarer to post to this site to help give people some context for my piece. But there’s progress! Heather Thompson, of Caedmon Tutorials found this page from WW Norton. As part of their Norton Anthology of English Literature they’ve posted a ton of...
The Seafarer audio recording
A lot of people have been coming finding this site while looking for information about the Anlgo-Saxon poem, The Seafarer. I set the first half of the poem (in Burton Raffel’s magical translation) for acting cello, and a film version of the piece is nearing completion. (I swear! color, titles, and we’re done. I promise.)...
New Recording of Crystal Tresses!
Greg Jukes made this new recording on my actual birthday last month – June 6. (By the way, that’s also D-day and the birthday of Tetris.) The piece, Crystal Tresses in the Sky is a short vibraphone solo he commissioned a couple years back. It’s something he can take on the road and perform in...
The Stain of Love, streaming online!
I’ve just built streaming audio into the site! Now you can actually hear recordings of my music on here – revolutionary, I know. First up is Jason Buckwalter’s recording of The Stain of Love, the Williams song cycle he commissioned. It’s streaming now here. Pop over, have a listen, and let me know how you...
Theatre works pages are up
I’ve written and posted individual pages about my theatre works, as you can see. There are overall pages listing my works in other genres, but individual pages about those works, complete with media samples, will be forthcoming. January is going to be a bit busy at Meet The Composer, with several grant deadlines and work...
First post
Well, hello there. My aim is to blog with medium regularity about issues I’m facing in my writing. Hopefully this will help me work through compositional problems and let people who are interested in my music know a little bit more about it. The composition process seems so mysterious to people; it seems like a...
