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As my grasping promo paragraphs suggest, yours portly has some new music out there, with Triple Deluxe releasing this Monday, 15 September on Bandcamp and all streaming platforms.  I’m also currently working on Spooky Season IV, which is running a little behind schedule—gulp!

SSIV likely won’t be as long as SSIII, which clocked in at nearly forty-two minutes.  But it will hopefully capture the fun, spooky, ghostly feel of Halloween.

My fiction writing has cooled considerably, but I did finish a draft of “Tap, Tap, Tap,” a creepy little short story about a telepathic beetle that feeds on human emotions; I’ll likely upload that as a PDF and/or in-body text for paid subscribers in the near future.  I’m also working on a pulpy barbarian story, although I have not been putting in my daily quota of words in weeks.

Otherwise, I’ve been keeping busy with school.  I’ve got two solid ensembles this year, and my Middle School Music Ensemble in particular has impressed me with their musicality.  The High School Music Ensemble is doing well, too, tackling pieces like Supertramp’s “The Logical Song” (which features irregular phrasing of ten and then eleven measures) and Herbie Hancock’s fusion classic “Chameleon.”

As a bit a preview for SSIV, here’s the short piece “Red Ghost”:

I wrote the main theme in F major by hand, and it feels rather truncated.  Inspiration struck, through, and I wrote a three-voice fugue section in D minor, which I think came out quite well.

More updates to come, dear readers.  Thanks for your support!

Happy Wednesday!

—TPP