New Works
Driving in the Air (2012) by Chelsea Reisner
"Driving in the Air" brings together an odd combination of musical elements to paint a picture of flying cars on a busy airborne highway made of light. The opening undulating gesture on one pitch represents the throbbing, humming energy of the glowing highway as the car gathers speed for lift-off. The catchy rhythms and melodic figures in this fun piece evoke the frenzied nerves of high-speed traffic mixed with the euphoric freedom of flight.
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Thick Line (2012) by Alex Temple

"Thick Line" can be performed by any number of wind or brass instruments, from a trio to an entire concert band. No matter how many musicians are playing, they all read from the same line of music. But it's an unusual sort of line: it's got rhythms, dynamics, character markings, and the general shape of a melody, but no specific pitches. The performers get to choose the pitches themselves — so each note becomes a rich harmony, and those rich harmonies move up and down in parallel. It's as if the melodic line of the piece were drawn not with a fine-tipped pencil, but with a thick piece of charcoal.
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Listen to her recording in our Soundcloud link below
Official Website: http://www.alextemplemusic.com
SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/eclipsewindtrio/thick-line-eclipse-wind-trio
I Just Lost to Myself at Hide and Seek (2012) by Justino Perez
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"I just lost to myself at Hide and Seek" is a prelude and fugue in the neo-baroque style, based on the work of Johann Sebastian Bach. While striving to imitate the complex contrapuntal precision the master produces in his music I also strove to incorporate my own playful style,and use techniques of modern music.
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Four Caricatures from Building 1438 (2012) by Max Pankau
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I've always been fascinated with the art of caricature. The aesthetic of taking prominent features of person and grotesquely accentuating them (often to convey a subtle message) possesses so much potential for creativity and fun for the artist . My mom is a very gifted artist and often drew caricatures of me and my siblings when I was a kid. So when I was asked to write a piece for the Eclipse Wind Trio, I decided after much deliberation to try my hand at creating caricatures of people through music.
Caricatures are frequently humorous, so I chose the zaniest group of people I could think of as my subjects: my former fellow soldiers in the 76th US Army Band with whom I lived in building no. 1438 at Coleman Barracks in Mannheim, Germany. Each caricature in this piece uses quotes from specific songs that the respective friend of mine was particularly fond of, or is constructed in a way of recreating a 'vibe' reminiscent of that person's musical tastes. For example, the first movement, "Hammer Toss", uses a compressed and contorted quote from The Cars' 1978 punk hit "Just What I Needed." “What Else?” uses tonally disguised quotes from the famous Martin Luther hymn “A Mighty Fortress is Our God.” “Ok, Maceo!” is somewhat of a stylistic parody of the New Orleans Jazz-style Vegas entertainer, Louis Prima (by whom my friend is very musically influenced), and the last movement, Delta Boy, exudes a very laid back, Pat Metheny-esque pentatonic vibe. Youtube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/mrpankau?feature=mhee |
4WD (2012) by Eric Knechtges
A number of sources indicate that the average person spends about 7% of their lives traveling in a vehicle on the road. Thus, it is no surprise that so many roads have been memorialized in song -- "Route 66", Ventura Highway," and "Penny Lane" are just a few. This piece is a homage to four different roads, and what they mean to me.
The first movement is named after Interstate Highway 75, epitomizing the stretch of highway between Toledo and Dayton: over two hours of driving time past small towns and farmers' fields. This drive can seem eternally long, surprisingly short, or both, depending on how one can alter their perception of the passage of time. The second movement is a tribute to Indiana State Route 46, a winding route is through echoing forests and open fields that forms a major segment of the trip from Bloomington, Indiana to Cincinnati, Ohio. I've driven many nostalgic trips on this road since finishing graduate school. The third movement depicts 14th Street in downtown Cincinnati. This street is in "Over-the Rhine," a neighborhood which saw its heyday as a destination for drinking and debauchery around the turn of the 20th century, but which has been in a constant state of decline since Prohibition. Currently, 14th Street is surrounded by low-income housing and abandoned buildings -- Cincinnati's Music Hall is the only reminder of the street's former glory days. The fourth movement portrays A 27, an autobahn in northern Germany. With no posted speed limit, the autobahn seems like the "wild West" of highways to many Americans, although the truth is far from this. As a teenager staying in northern Germany, my host family mentioned that when there is a super-high speed accident on the autobahn, ambulances are rarely sent to the scene, as the victims are most likely already dead. I think they were joking, but that frightening image stuck with me. |
Movement I. "I-75"
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Precise Allies (2012) John Clark
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