Piano Etudes

Piano Ètudes by Jason Freeman è un altro esempio di opera aperta via web in cui l’utente crea un brano seguendo un percorso fatto di frammenti. Andate qui.

Notate:

  • dopo aver scelto uno studio, cliccando “settings” potete vedere le note o il piano roll
  • cliccando “sharing” potete salvare la vostra creazione
  • potete apporre il vostro nome come autore accanto a quello di Jason Freeman cliccando “Anonymous”

Note dell’autore:

Inspired by the tradition of open-form musical scores, I composed each of these four piano etudes as a collection of short musical fragments with links to connect them. In performance, the pianist must use those links to jump from fragment to fragment, creating her own unique version of the composition.

The pianist, though, should not have all the fun. So I also developed this web site, where you can create your own version of each etude, download it as an audio file or a printable score, and share it with others. In concert, pianists may make up their own version of each etude, or they may select a version created by a web visitor.

I wrote Piano Etudes for Jenny Lin; our collaboration was supported, in part, with a Special Award from the Yvar Mikhashoff Pianist/Composer Commissioning Project. Special thanks to Turbulence for hosting this web site and including it in their spotlight series and to the American Composers Forum’s Encore Program for supporting several live performances of this work. I developed the web site in collaboration with Akito Van Troyer.

Prior Art

Prior Art è un bel brano per 10 strumenti di Jason Freeman. Si tratta di un pezzo raffinato e delicato in cui, dietro all’apparente facilità delle parti, si nasconde un complesso equilibrio dinamico e timbrico.

La formazione è

  • flute
  • oboe (doubles on metal wind chimes)
  • bass clarinet
  • horn (doubles on suspended cymbal)
  • piano
  • percussion (vibraphone, crotales, snare drum, tam-tam)
  • violin, viola, cello, and bass

È anche possibile scaricarne la partitura, sia pure in una versione di studio con watermark.

Jason Freeman – Prior Art (2004), performed by Ensemble Surplus, James Avery, conductor, September 2005, Stuttgart, Germany.