Open Mic Adventures CXXXII: “The Magic Forest”

Apparently, I failed to make videos for all of the pieces on Leftovers IV.  Indeed, I neglected to upload a lot of the goodies that I usually include with digital purchases of albums; that has now been rectified.

So I am back to looking at some tracks from that short EP.  This week’s is one of my favorites:  “The Magic Forest.”

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Open Mic Adventures CXXIX: “Clarinetti”

I recently uncovered a bunch of old music I wrote during a period spanning from roughly 1999 through probably 2012.  Today’s piece is not one of those pieces, but I’ll soon be highlighting some of my super deep cuts here.  If you want to hear one piece—recorded with me playing real instruments, not computer ones!—check out this past Saturday’s post.

Today’s piece is another digital piece, composed in Noteflight.  I’ve been writing a lot of trios lately, and have been experimenting with getting three of the same instruments to blend without sounding too boring.  I’m not sure if I have succeeded, but this week’s piece is a stab at it.

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