Thanks for scoping this page out. I am a North Carolina native, born and reared in the small town of Graham, twenty miles or so east of Greensboro. After torturing my family with music I heard in my head from infancy I was allowed to study voice, piano and clarinet. I was a composition major at UNCG under Jack Jarrett, Eddie Bass, Frank McCarty and Art Hunkins until my last semester there, when based on papers analyzing the finale of the Mahler Ninth Symphony and the third movement of Berio’s Sinfonia, I was granted a fellowship in musicology at UNC-Chapel Hill. I was invited back to UNC-G to become a faculty composer and accompanist for the Dance department from 1980 to 1995. Subsequent to budget cuts there I was employed by the physical plant at the university first as a landscaper and horticulturist, then as a custodian/florist/pianist for the Alumni House. When the Notion crew returned from India in 2004, Jack Jarrett invited me to check out the new software. I was so captivated by the intuitive ease and flexibility for entry and editing with sophisticated sampling in playback that I enthusiastically accepted the honor of working here as composer-in-residence. (Jack had also bestowed an honorary degree upon me at the end of my freshman year – a doctorate in taural scatology.) All of the little ditties here are completely realized in Notion and/or Progression. Besides accompanying dance at Greensboro Ballet and silent films at the NCSA film school, I have played free improv under the auspices of Meet the Composer at various venues on the east coast with the F-Art Ensemble, Eugene Chadbourne and in a duo with percussionist Murray Reams. I have composed and performed work for the American Dance Festival, over 150 dance scores and sound designs, student films, church and theatrical events in the Southeast. My specialties as a composer are obfuscation, procrastination, pedantic and obscene arcane references as well as an immoderate and immodest propensity towards self-deprecation & its tea-time (when is it not?!) so it may be best to stop.
for your personal listening pleasure i just uploaded two new tracks to the SECOND audio player on my profile (scroll down the page/below the video clips). one's called "beyond dreams" the other "man behind the window." feel free to check them out if you got a minute. and if you got two minutes, hit me back and let me know how you like 'em.
thanx so much for your time, and have a most wonderful day!!!
"DJ Monkey …soul-stirring, excitingly edgy music…just disturbing (read ‘mind-f**king’) enough to demand attention. There is a whole spice rack of auditory flavors here, served up like fractured poetry on a collection of intensely listenable Hallmark cards from Hell." Bill Margold, Cinema Seen, L.A. X..Press
merci pour l'ajout! vous pouvez également me retrouver sur: http://fr.akamusic.com/alexcor mon album est disponible en me contactant ou sur fnac.com,virgin... amitiés alexcor
1) Audiomachie (6:21) 2) Une ombre vacille en serpentin virevoltant (6:58) 3) Bruissement de griserie (9:55) 4) Propensity to go forward (7:36) 5) Drawing of a Back with a Mouth (4:24) 6) Second Life (3:50)
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- The project was about trying to explore different poetry styles, always with different instrumentations and musical structures because I don't want to repeat a single one - An album not directly linked to the four previous ones, but with the impossible to avoid come back to fetish themes - Second Life is about the technological phenomena, but I got better things to do with my life than spending it on the clone of a capitalist society - We might as well hope for a real bankrupcy for all of us, it would be worth it to kill capitalism
Most of you will just want to listen to the music made available. Well, here it is with great streaming (right after MA VIE est ICI which is a reminder of my previous album conclusion) http://www.freakywaves.com
Hi there! The Danish composer Per Nørgård's music has been much on my mind the past few years. Arguably the most important now living Scandinavian composer also has a remarkable output for the guitar. I spent a couple of years working with the composer on this repertoire, spanning from 1973 to 2000, in order to embrace the emerging performance practice associated with his work.
I have just uploaded 10 new tracks, all taken from "Tales From the North", my double CD box with the complete guitar works of Danish composer Per Nørgård. Also, in my latest blog you will find recent reviews of this release.
For further reading about the composer, this is an excellent website, with articles by a series of scholars and performers that have dedicated much study to his work:
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