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Everything Will Make Sense Given Time

Posted in electronic, fixed media, multi-movement piece on February 21, 2015 by Jacob Feinberg

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1. people are gone too MP3 Duration: 1:32

2. band (a) / exhale (sweet dreamer) MP3 Duration: 6:53

3. reprise / (b) MP3  Duration: 7:58

4. everything remembered / closer dream desert (unexplained) MP3  Duration: 8:54

5. preludes (like morning) / transport (heavenfire) MP3  Duration: 15:00

6. burning, sweet as day / water, nothing unravels MP3 Duration: 8:28

7. watchmaker’s paradise MP3 Duration: 4:44

Total duration: 54 min

Year(s) of composition: 2005-2008

Like Summa de Nada, Everything… collages compositional etudes and rock songs. Some of the collaged materials found on Everything… were already collaged for earlier pieces so the end result is partially a collage-of-collages.

 

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For Melinda Rice

Posted in electronic, violin on February 21, 2015 by Jacob Feinberg

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Commissioned by Melinda Rice and premiered by her on Jan 22, 2006.

MP3 of first performance

Duration: 22:17

Year(s) of compostion: 2005

For Melinda Rice is an electro-acoustic piece with a modular violin score and multi-track recordings of violin which create a dense drone.

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Eight Systems

Posted in 'cello, viola on February 21, 2015 by Jacob Feinberg

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Composed for a concert of new short works performed by Cassia Streb (viola) and April Guthrie (‘cello) on October 12, 2005.

MP3 of first performance

Duration: 5-6 minutes

Year(s) of composition: 2005

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See You Soon

Posted in 'cello, piano, song, voice on February 21, 2015 by Jacob Feinberg

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A setting of a poem by Mazarine Treyz.

MP3 as performed by:

Soprano – Kris Wildman

Piano – Danny Holt

‘Cello – Aniela Perry

Duration: approx 4:00 (this recording 4:06)

Year(s) of composition: 2004

The performers begin and end each phrase together but intentionally drift rhythmically in-between.

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A door just opened on a street…

Posted in 'cello, piano, song, voice on February 20, 2015 by Jacob Feinberg

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MP3 as performed by:

Soprano – Kris Wildman

Piano – Danny Holt

‘Cello – Aniela Perry

Duration: 2:50

Year(s) of composition: 2003, revised 2005

A setting of an Emily Dickinson poem. One of five such pieces used in Solitude, a collaborative project with five filmmakers. The original vocal line, which contained the words of the poem, was moved to the ‘cello part and the poem’s stanzas are not sung in the revised version.

A door just opened on a street–
I, lost, was passing by–
An instant’s width of warmth disclosed
And wealth, and company.

The door as sudden shut, and I,
I, lost, was passing by,–
Lost doubly, but by contrast most,
Enlightening misery.

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Summa De Nada

Posted in electronic, fixed media, multi-movement piece on February 20, 2015 by Jacob Feinberg

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Suite 1 

1. For Melissa MP3 Duration: 4:19

2. The Same MP3 Duration: 2:14

3. Radio MP3 Duration: 3:21

 

Suite 2

4. The Wind Blows Us Elsewhere MP3 Duration: 9:39

5. Counting Sheep MP3 Duration: 3:24

6. Danielle And Ginger MP3 Duration: 6:57

 

Suite 3

7. You Know My Secrets MP3  Duration: 2:22

8. Broken Flowers (Science Fiction) MP3 Duration: 9:13

9. Torn From Live Space MP3 Duration: 6:20

10. Lying Still MP3 Duration: 4:27

 

Suite 4

11. Palace of Echoes MP3 Duration: 3:04

12. If Only To Be Numb… MP3 Duration: 5:18

13. Ghost(s) MP3 Duration: 5:30

 

Total Duration: Approx. 67 minutes

Year(s) of composition: 2003

Summa de Nada is largely drawn from the same sessions as Junesong but the pieces (some collaged and others free-standing) are arranged into 4 suites.

Like oddball extended techniques? Listen for me playing an electric razor through humbucker electric guitar pickups.

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Junesong

Posted in electronic, fixed media, multi-movement piece on February 20, 2015 by Jacob Feinberg

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1. Tonight as the sun goes MP3 Duration: 16:06

2. Junesong & the samsara blues MP3 Duration: 14:05

3. Conjure me MP3 Duration: 10:19

Total Duration: 40:30

Year(s) of composition: 2001-2002

Junesong is an assortment of sonic experiments, compositional etudes and psychedelic rock songs structured in 3 movements.

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Searcher, Portrait in 12-tone

Posted in piano on February 20, 2015 by Jacob Feinberg

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1999 version premiered by Bari Mort.

MP3 of Midi Realization

Duration: 9-10 min

Year(s) of composition: 1999, revised 2000

 

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A Walk Through The Gardens, Hazy Morning

Posted in electronic, fixed media on February 20, 2015 by Jacob Feinberg

walkA Walk Through The Gardens, Hazy Morning MP3

Duration: 5:52

Year(s) of composition: 1999

A Walk… features my first use of a process I call collapsible form.

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Ripple In Empty Pool

Posted in electronic, fixed media on February 20, 2015 by Jacob Feinberg

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Duration: 7:24

Year(s) of composition: 1999

Ripple contrasts sections of minimalistic expanding/contracting meters with rhythms commonly found in drum-and-bass electronica. More conventionally “pretty” than many of my pieces.

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