Trio For Flute, Guitar, and Cello

12/4/2018

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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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...).

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.

Phillip Klampe

12/12/2018 21:04:17

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

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!

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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