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Trio For Flute, Guitar, and Cello

12/4/2018

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This trio was also composed, recorded, and mixed down with my Mixcraft programs. As with the other pieces that appear on this EC page it uses sampled instrument sounds. This piece was done with the intention of being as melodic and tonal as possible. Mostly, it is modal, with various shifts in mode and tonality, but avoiding atonal and abrupt effects. Done largely as a respite from the more challenging atonal and disjunct pieces I'd been doing. But I definitely wanted to avoid the usual, boring "New Wave" sound that would be normally associated with "pretty" tonal music with this instrument combination.
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Septet For Flute, Alto Sax, Percussion, and String Quartet

12/2/2018

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This piece was composed and recorded with Mixcraft Pro Studio 6 and mixed down with Mixcraft 7. All sounds are those of sampled, "virtual", instruments.  This piece was created by composing short sections of music of different tempos and time signatures, directly abutted to each other, mixed and matched with no particular organization other than the desire to make the transitions as abrupt as possible. Ken Clinger has likened this piece to a View Master or a slide show, with the individual segments changing unexpectedly. Many segments reoccur, altered or unaltered, as the piece progresses. Generally tonal, but with many atonal elements, again with the emphasis on unexpected changes and shifts of perspective.
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    Tom Furgas

    Born in Youngstown, Ohio
    in 1954.

    Piano lessons beginning
    at age 5.

    Started composing
    at age 12.

    Made tapes on a portable cassette 
    machine starting
    ​in 1969.

    Started home-taping seriously in 1983.

    Have sold and traded tapes and, later, CD's since then. 

    Musical 
    interests:
    contemporary classical, free improvisation,  electronic

    music both popular and "classical", noise, audio collage, experimental
    music of all kinds.  Have done many collaborations by mail and electronic media.

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