Menu
ELECTRONIC COTTAGE
  • HOME
  • REVIEWS
  • ARTICLES
  • COMMENTS
  • HOME
  • REVIEWS
  • ARTICLES
  • COMMENTS

Trio For Flute, Guitar, and Cello

12/4/2018

4 Comments

 
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.
Picture
trio_for_flute_guitar_and_cello.mp3
File Size: 21597 kb
File Type: mp3
Download File

4 Comments
Evan Cantor
12/5/2018 19:55:54

Most interesting and unexpected--just out of curiosity, is this a piece that could, with many pages of sheet music, be performed by such a trio live? Or does it exist only as a recorded document? Not that it makes any real difference. Like I said, just curious. It's quite beautiful, but without any saccharine too-sweet prettiness. I could see myself listening to this at a music school recital somewhere (with a bunch of snooty classical music academes frowning in the rear...).

Reply
Hal McGee
12/6/2018 11:02:34

Tom, thank you for this! I finally had the opportunity to sit down and listen to this purely for personal (non EC Editor) enjoyment and found it to be quite pleasing whilst eating lunch. I appreciate you sharing your new audioworks here at EC. The friends here appreciate it too, I'm sure.

Reply
Phillip Klampe
12/12/2018 21:04:17

Very nice work! It had me visualizing a warm afternoon outdoors.

Reply
Hessel Veldman
12/27/2018 17:41:44

Hello Tom,
IT has been a real surprise listening to your wonderful compositions. Of course. There were classical influences to be experienced during your cassette network period. But these works I downloaded are great. In 2019 They Will be part of an Electronic Cottage episode @concertzender
Thanks for sharing!

Reply



Leave a Reply.

    Picture

    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.

    E-mail

    Archives

    August 2019
    April 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018

    RSS Feed