So, way back in the day I decided to write a number of works in the Steve Reich expanded universe, lifting lots of harmonic, melodic, and perhaps most significantly for me, formal ideas. Here are most of those pieces, including a couple of large fragments of unfinished works.
00:00 Happy Birthday (for 2 Pianos)
I stand by this actually, this is good stuff. Just ignore the goofy rhythmic notation at the coda.
00:47 Untitled (or "Marimba Counterpoint" )
It's Electric Counterpoint, but bad (and for marimbas). Just skip this one...
Also, I'd like to shout out my fellow Steve Reich aficionado and imitator Ken Yanagimoto for composing a "Counterpoint"-style piece for mallet percussion much better than this one, "Saga Counterpoint": • Saga Counterpoint (Hom...
The algorithm brought me to his work way back in 2012/2013 and I've admired him since.
08:13 (Mvt II)
12:15 (Mvt III)
16:10 Reflection
Electric Counterpoint, but bad, and condensed into an /even more/ minimalistic piece. Also inspired in part by Ken Yanagimoto's "Saga Counterpoint." In the first and third movements, the ostinato melodies are strictly related by transposition, and by rhythmic translation & inversion; the result is these dense, sinusoidal clouds of pitches. Maybe not much to hear in this one overall, but it's a little better than the marimba piece I think. Nominally orchestrated for electric guitars and two basses, I'm not really happy with that instrumentation, and it was composed with only the material in mind, so I'm calling it an "undetermined ensemble." Maybe I'll play it on melodicas and recorders one day.
20:59 (Mvt II)
24:02 (Mvt III) (I think the bass hocket in this movement is pretty sick)
28:07 Quartet (for 2 Vibraphones and 2 Pianos)
This piece is kind of a mish-mash of Reichy things. I'd give myself some originality points here for the metric ideas (until the last movement where I'd take them all away). And yes, this is me unironically posting a MidiJam video, and probably not for the last time.
32:52 (Mvt II)
36:27 (Mvt III)
41:15 Unfinished Percussion & Strings Ensemble Piece #1
(3 pianos, 3 percussion, and string quintet)
51:52 Unfinished Percussion & Strings Ensemble Piece #2
(Piano, synthesizer, 3 percussion, and string quintet)
Both of these unfinished works are from my last year of high school. Continuing from the previous works, these represented attempts at putting together larger forms. Despite their being unfinished and riddled with problems, I'm presenting them here since I think they're still as fun to listen to as most of this stuff. The second one has a more fluid form and more cogent development of a (rather poor) melody.
59:59 Music for Strings and Percussion
(2 amplified solo vln & solo vla, string quintet (2.1.1.1) doubled by electric organ, flute/picc, and 8-13 percussionists+pianists)
It's "Music for a Large Ensemble," but bad. Please try and overlook the imperfect synching of the graphics for this one (not to mention my 'camerawork').
There are a few nice, slightly-original things in this work. I think that the harmony in the third of the four major sections (around the halfway point) is really sweet, and I like the phase canon in the solo strings during that section as well.
Keep an eye out for the world's tiniest V-I at the very end...
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