New Album: The First 50 Years
I am pleased to announce the release of my new album, The First Fifty Years, on MicroFest Records. The album is availabe both as a physical disc and for download, and from the various streaming services. It contains 13 original compositions, with a total running time of one hour and fifteen minutes. Three additional “bonus tracks,” totalling over seventeen minutes, are available only online. Samples from all the tracks and complete liner notes are also available on the MF website.
The compositions on The First Fifty Years span the fifty years of my career(?) as a composer, from the early 1970s to the present. Absent is work from the period 1984–95, which is amply represented in my previous solo release, Uncommon Practice (1998). All compositions are in some form of just intonation. This collection contains both my compositions for acoustic instruments and those for virtual (software) instruments recorded in a digital audio workstation. The latter category typically involve intonational requirements beyond the means of current acoustic instruments and performers. As always, my goal was to create emotionally and intellectually satisfying music as I perceive it. The works are presented in chronological order.
