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practice, experimentation, composition, ideas, meditation, appreciation... "First go over to the other side and realize it exists; then come back to this side to practice." — Nanquan Puyuan 
Stravinsky January 2015 Movements for Piano and Orchestra (1958-59) all parts on trombone 
 Movement I 2:50 Movement II 1:30 Movement III :57 Movement IV 1:43 Movement V 1:51 As a single track 8:46 ))).jpg)
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August 2016  Trombassoon Rye Beach, NH 2:3O 
eyescream truck July 2016 1:38 radio-bardo May 2016  I 2:57 II, "Hammerklavier" 1O:3O III 6:OO IV 2:54 
 
 kitchen bowls backyard Santa Barbara, November 2014  17:51 
   
   
Leos Janacek  from On An Overgrown Path, for piano 1. Our Evenings, all parts on trombone 3:17 
JACK NEWMAN - SHOLEM ALEICHEM  Trombone translations of Yiddish
From an obscure LP entitled "Sholem Aleichem Readings", probably from the 1960s...
Unfortunately I can't find any biographical information on the reader Jack Newman, and the majority of what's on the back of the record jacket
is in Hebrew except for a short section by a Chaim Rothblat, who it says was 'Professor of Hebrew Literature University of Judaism'.
Rothblat was quoted as saying the recording of the stories reminded him "of a recitation presented by Sholem Aleichem in 1914 before the outbreak of the first World War."
The first time I heard this record it was music to my ears... I was thrilled, imagining it on trombone, having this to work on...
and so I chose a track which struck me as particularly intricate melodically and rhythmically, and memorized it phrase by phrase playing along with the recording,
rather than transcribing it. A fascinating and challenging process! I may do the rest of the tracks on the album, as they're all amazing...
It's so beautiful how really anything can become music... We'll never run out of things to practice and explore... September 2008 1. "Berl Isaac" original 7:25 2. "Berl Isaac" with trombone 3. "Berl Isaac" trombone alone 
June 2007 1. "Naches Fun Kinder" original 7:15 2. "Naches Fun Kinder" with trombone 3. "Naches Fun Kinder" trombone alone June 2009 With a remote drumset, German sound artist Markus Markowski created what he calls "trigger music" to these pieces! 
 
 1. 'Naches Fun Kinder' with trombone and remote drumset 2. 'Berl Isaac' with trombone and remote drumset improvicompositions with family tapes 
It was back in early 2006 that I was first introduced to the work and life of Stan Brakhage,
which then officially spurred me on to transfer some 50 or so old family cassette tapes to my computer
for use as very personal footage sourced from visual circumstances to incorporate into compositions based around trombone improvisations and collage work
using other archived sound material from performances and other miscellaneous recorded excerpts and associations.
For me these pieces became important steps in self-reliant compositional work-thought, looking at, assembling
deconstructing and simulating a solo language coming from jazz, a feeling of artistic freedom and surrealism I needed
in an active balance from the collaborative/public
experiences. In the end, I am simply grateful
for these tools enabling me to work in such ways and share. Looking back on life, love, death... A collage - April 2006 [ 5:25 ] Winter blues - January 2010 [ 2:46 ] December 29, 2008 [ 1:57 ] December 15, 2007 [ 5:38 ] Happenings, Things, Pieces, Events [ 5:46 ] - October 2007 Expansion on Bach/Celebration Song [ 4:48 ] - June 12, 2007 (Arranged to be played for my Mom first thing the morning of her birthday) Family Pieces - May 2007 [ 3:52 ] Nostalgia - March 2007 [ 1:18 ] Family Cassette Collage - January 2007 [ 8:16 ] Meditations From Behind The Couch, Vitreous - September 2006 [ 3:32 ] Now Of August 31, 2006 - August 2006 [ 2:15 ] "We need to find the link between our traditions and our present experience of life. Nowness, or the magic of the present moment, is what joins the wisdom of the past with the present." - Chogyam Trungpa Davidsong - July 2006 [ 2:50 ] Once A Boy Was Born Into The World - June 2006 [ 2:06 ] Dream of Flowers - June 2006 [ 1:42 ] May 26, 2006 + 1977 - May 2006 [ 2:39 ] Conlon Nancarrow  On trombone June 2010 Player-piano Study No. 9 1. Original 3:48 2. Original + trombones 3. Trombones alone October 2008 Player-piano Study No. 15 1. Original 1:03 2. Original + trombones 3. Trombones alone 
IGOR STRAVINSKY  July 2008 The first movement from Stravinsky's Sonata for Two Pianos (1943-44) Moderato 3:49 
and that 32-bar introduction in the beginning of his Concerto for Piano and Winds (1923-24) Largo 1:36 (version II) 
 ERIK SATIE January 2009 Airs à faire fuir (Airs that chase away) from Pièces Froides (Cold Pieces, 1897), originally for solo piano. 1. Airs à faire fuir 2:18 
Carlo Gesualdo  Madrigals, from Book VI (1611) for 5 voices, on trombone March 2012 1. Resta Di Darmi Noia 2:48 Alexander Scriabin  Piano Prelude Op. 51 No. 2 February 2012 All parts on trombone 2:26 PIERRE BOULEZ  April 2008 of Messagesquisse (1976-77), with a recording of cello soloist Jean-Guihen Queyras and six others of the Ensemble de Violoncelles de Paris. 
1. II. Très Rapide 2:04 2. IV. Aussi Rapide Que Possible :36  Anton Webern  Variations for piano, Op. 27 1. Sehr Mässig 1:29 2. Sehr Schnell :31 
Solo  Three record players and trombone Live in Brooklyn, November 6, 2010 1. 58:23 
August 2009 Solo trombone improvisation - 1:30  PLASTIC CUP PHONOGRAPH RECORDER/PLAYER A couple garbled test improvisations on trombone... cup 1 cup 2   ALEXANDER SCRIABIN  Op. 11 1. No. 15 2:28 CARLO GESUALDO  April 2008 - October 2010 (work in progress) Sacrae Cantiones (1603). Gesualdo's first sacred publications for five voices. I. Ave, Regina coelorum 2:11 II. Venit lumen tuum 1:41 III. Ave, dulcissima Maria 2:20 
IV. Reminisceremiserationum tuarum 1:18 V. Dignare me, laudare te 1:44 VII. Domine, ne despicias 1:14 VIII. Hei mihi, Domine 1:25 IX. Laboravi in gemitu meo 1:56 X. Peccantem me quotidie 2:50 XI. O vos omnes 1:34 XII. Exaudi, Deus 1:46 XIII. Precibus et meritis beatae Mariae 1:19 “The opaque weight of the world—both of life on earth and of death, heaven, and hell—is dissolved, and the spirit freed, not from anything, for there was nothing from which to be freed except a myth too solidly believed, but for something, something fresh and new, a spontaneous act.” — Joseph Campbell, “Primitive Mythology: The Masks of God” CHOPIN Preludes, Op. 28 April 2008 4. Prelude No.6 1:48 October 2007 3. Prelude No.4 2:00 August 2007 2. Prelude No.2 2:13 August 2007 1. Prelude No.5 :32 w/ original recording - Martha Argerich, piano  OLIVIER MESSIAEN  September 2008 La Nativite du Seigneur, for organ (work in progress) I. La Vierge et L'Enfant part 1 2:25 From his Quartet for the End of Time, the sixth movement: 2. Danse de la fureur, pour les sept trompettes 6:56 Luben Yordanoff, violin; Albert Tetard, cello; Claude Desurmont, clarinet; Daniel Barenboim, piano VIVALDI  Concerto for Strings in C Major, RV 111a, III. Presto Venice Baroque Orchestra April 2008 1. Presto :58 Concerto for Strings in D minor, RV 127, III. Allegro Venice Baroque Orchestra October 2007 1. Allegro 1:00 IGOR STRAVINSKY  March 2007 The 4-voice fugue in the first half of the second movement in Symphony of Psalms trombones alone original recording + trombones 2:48 ROBERT SCHUMANN  January 2008 Tenth etude from the Symphonic Etudes... 1. Etude X :40 Murray Perahia, piano 
by ELLIOTT CARTER 
In 1999 I rewrote his solo piano piece 90+ to play along with the record (so that all of the piece could still be heard) which I attempted semi-successfully in performance that same year at my senior recital in the Manhattan School of Music.
2003-4 I did the same thing to two other works of his for solo instruments, but keeping the "performance" aspect of it relatively confined to my NYC apartment.
 (2003-2005)
Most of these pieces were assembled by a chance process, recording each improvised layer without hearing the ones preceeding, building
the composition in imagination up until feeling it was completed.
2. Formation – Trombone and Bass 3. Trombone and Guitar I 4. In Between – Trombone, Melodica, Voice 5. Trombone, Thumb Piano, Guitar, Melodica 6. Trombone and Bass I 7. A First Glimpse of the Other Side – Guitar and Trombone 8. Trombones with Melodica 9. Trombone and Guitar II 10. Guitar, Thumb Piano, Trombone 11. Extended composition for Trombone and Bass 12. Untitled – Trombone solo 13. Trombone and Guitar III 14. Durations - Trombone 15. Trombone, Melodica 16. Esperanto – Trombone and Voice 17. Guitar, Melodica, Cab Dispatcher 18. Trombone and Bass II 19. Before and After – Trombone 20. Living with Dying – Guitar and Trombone 21. Trombone and Bass VI 22. Many Trombones 23. Versions of Two Excursions – Trombone and Guitar 24. 5 and 1 – Feldman recordings and Voice 25. Trombone and Bass III 26. Trombone and Guitar V 27. For Four Melodicas 28. Trombone and Guitar IV 29. Trombone and Bass VIII 30. Two Clouds – Trombone 31. Trombones VII 32. Trombone and Bass IV 33. Trombone, Guitar and Melodica 34. Lost – Voice and Trombone 35. Trombone and Guitar VI 36. Trombone and Bass V 37. The Dream – Trombone, Melodica, Voice 38. The Ocean's City – Trombone 39. Beginning an Ending – Trombone 40. Trombone and Guitar I - 2.15.04 41. Trombone and Guitar II - 2.15.04 42. Trombone and Guitar III - 2.15.04 43. Trombone, Guitar and Melodica - 2.15.04 44. Trombone and Bass - May 18, 2004 #1 45. Trombone and Bass - May 18, 2004 #2 46. Trombone, Bass, Melodica, Thumb Piano - May 18, 2004 #3 47. Trombone and Bass - May 18, 2004 #4 48. Trombone and Bass - May 18, 2004 #5 49. Trombone and Bass - May 18, 2004 #6 50. Trombone and Voice - The Return to Birth - May 17, 2004 51. In Four - Trombone - May 22, 2004 52. Suspension - Melodica - May 22, 2004 53. Discussing Peace - Voice - May 23, 2004 54. Finding The Form In What I've Said - Trombone, Thumb Piano, Melodica - May 23, 2004 55. May 24, 2004 #1 - Trombone and Bass 56. May 24, 2004 #2 - Trombone and Bass 57. SOLO - May 31, 2004 - Trombone 58. SOLO + MELODICA - May 31, 2004 - Trombone and Melodica 59. SOLO II - May 31, 2004 - Trombone 60. Equational - June 2, 2004 - Trombone and Bass 61. SOLO - July 6, 2004 - Trombone 62. SOLO - July 12, 2004 - Trombone 63. SOLO - July 20, 2004 - Trombone 64. SOLO - July 25, 2004 - Trombone 65. Extended Solo - September 12, 2004 66. Extended Solo/Extending Melodies - October 20, 2004 67. Improvised Journey for Five Trombones - October 16, 2005 68. SOLO - November 6, 2005 - Trombone 69. SOLO II - November 6, 2005 - Trombone 70. Flying Low Over A Frozen Land - November 6, 2005 - Melodica 71. Trombone, Thumb Piano, Melodica - December 22, 2005 72. Five Trombones - December 25, 2005 73. Ten Trombones - December 25, 2005 74. Hexagonal Crystal Offering In A Burried Wooden Coffin - January 15, 2006 75. May 31, 2007, solo [ 3:52 ] Ben Gerstein – trombone; melodica; voice; guitar [5 and 10]; thumb piano Thomas Morgan – bass; voice [16] Eivind Opsvik - bass [44-49, 60]; thumb piano [46] Miles Okazaki – guitar Judith Berkson – voice [34]  By Dan Voss: 
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