What a semester! It literally has been three months since I have posted but I have an excellent excuse. I am nearly done with my doctorate but something came up in the process of completing it. My advisers discovered that I had not taken any courses in electronic music composition! Now, as much as I wanted to be done with course work, this is something I have not done (except once and rather amateurishly). It is something I really needed in my education. It added just a little more to do than I normally like. That made the past three months way too busy.
Holy cow though, I am loving learning new things. While this next video does not have any electronic composition elements, it does include something I have learned about: de-noising software. Most of my videos have not included that kind of software and boy some of it could use it. At some point, I will post the new piece that I am creating, which has been a unique experience as a composer. And it is thoroughly an organ composition realized electronically.
This improvisation comes from my time practicing at Holy Spirit Episcopal Church in Missoula, Montana where I played my Sonata No. 1. Dr. Nancy Cooper was my first organ teacher and since my family return there every summer, I have made it a habit of playing there yearly. Of course, with this wonderful Richard Bond neo-Baroque tracker rebuild, it was hard not to play around with it after practicing for a few hours. The key word there is tracker; much the previous post from the tracker at St. Paul Cathedral here in Pittsburgh, it is really fun to play with slowly lifting and depressing the action.
The 8′ Principle is such a lush stop on this instrument. It was hard to ignore!