Origins of “Walden at Evening”
When I received a commission from IHS host Dan Phillips to write a piece for horn and chorus, I had to readjust my thinking about words for the chorus…
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Tag: nature sounds
Inspiration from Walden
I keep going back to the book Walden by Henry David Thoreau for words and imagery of nature. Walden Pond is a local landmark and part of our community DNA…
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New England Spring – Editing a Soundscape
I’ve got a collection of recordings from various nature reserves and conservation land in eastern Massachusetts. I’ve made the recordings over the past several years in the spring…
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“Polluted” Soundscapes
It’s hard to find spots to record nature soundscapes that don’t have some kind of traffic noise…
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Form in Music and Nature
Form in Music was the title of my college music theory textbook. Form gives music its shape. The music is paced in the moment by the tempo, but the larger shape is made by passages that repeat and develop, by the musical events that interject and interrupt and flow into each other, and how the Read More...