When the spring rains pause and the clouds part to show you a tiny patch of bright blue sky... do you ever feel a sudden wish to float away on the wind?

Sheet music now exists for Prismatic. Sometime in the next few months I hope to upload a better recording and maybe tweak a handful of notes in the sheet music as I notice the opportunities. ( Read more... )

Ah, modesty among artists. Sometimes it makes me feel like I'd be prying if I asked to see more of their work-and so I hesitate, or I swallow my curiosity and let it itch.

And as an artist myself, I've certainly been on the other side of it and could guess at the causes:

• I'm reluctant to display the work that doesn't meet my own standards.
• I'm ( Read more... )

Prismatic
Performed on piano by Andrew Geng (Length 00:03:15)
Copyright © 2011 by Andrew Geng
Ogg Vorbis (1.8 M)
MP3 (3.0 M)
Small MP3 (766k)

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Hey, artists! Has anybody ever told you to "learn the rules before you break them"?

I think this is extremely poisonous advice.

As a young artist, it hurts to hear that your work has no value until you spend years learning the right way to do it. The implication that you should refrain from even trying until then is nothing but discouragement.

I ( Read more... )

When I begin a new composition, I'm sitting on an unsteady mixture of emotions. The first exhilarating rush of inspiration is followed by heavy questions: Should I focus on works in progress before turning to this new idea? Will it one day see an audience? Can it develop its own identity amidst the patterns that previous works have already etched ( Read more... )

Piano sheet music is online, at a part of Melon Island that I've managed to raise from the dead. Orchestral sheet music will take me a bit longer to finish. That (perhaps with the exception of the first violin part) won't be posted, but I'll be happy to send it to whoever asks.

The audio is done at last! Sheet music (orchestral score, individual parts, and a slighly-updated piano solo) will take a few more days; I need to clean up the notation in Lilypond.

Since Melon Island appears to have vanished, the files are posted on my MIT space for now. I recommend the copy in Ogg Vorbis format, but if your computer can't play ( Read more... )

The sheet music for the piano solo version of "Stella Nova" is now finished. You can download it here:

• http://pteromys.melonisland.net/stella-nova-piano.pdf (261 kb)

I apologize for the lack of a matching audio file. There will be one available for the orchestral version when it's done.
( Some Background Ranting )