Woodwind Recording Session: February 6th, 2013

Here's my new piece for Woodwinds. It's a cue called "Travel Music" from an imaginary documentary called "Stephen A. Douglas: An American Portrait".  It was recorded at Studio X in Seattle, WA. The Engineer was Reed Ruddy. Hummie Mann was the conductor.

It calls for 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, and 1 bassoon. The players were awesome and I was tickled with the outcome. Of special note is that all of the chords are related chromatically. They don't have a classical relationship to each other but are related often by thirds. Some jazz players refer to this as chromatic mediant progressions, but in this case it's not always by a third. I've included the score in the video and it follows the notes on the track.

Special thanks to Sean Osborn, Robin Peery, Alicia Suarez, and others whom I didn't see because I, for work reasons, couldn't even be there! Special thanks also to Hummie Mann and my fellow students who did production work in the booth on this one.