Abbey Bowed

Abbey Bowed is a complete string quartet transformation of the Beatles' famous album Abbey Road. I began working on the score in late 2013. I worked for a year and a half until I arrived at rough drafts of all the tracks. Then I took the music to a quartet I had assembled specifically for this project, and was able to develop final versions with the help of these rehearsals. The ~110-page score I have now assembled of the entire album is the fruit of that work. Using the craftsmanship of classical quartets by Beethoven, Brahms, and others as a guide, the arrangements feature many additions and changes to the original songs that capitalize on the strengths of string instruments (and compensate for not having a drummer!).

I am now seeking to record this music as an album, produce a promotional music video, and present the entire album live at a series of public concerts. Additionally, if copyright laws allow it, I will seek to sell the sheet music to these arrangements, since I have already been asked many times about the availability of the parts. 

The album is now available for streaming and purchase on Bandcamp!

​Check out the first two tracks of the album on youtube:

Come Together
youtu.be/EzS9Rg6_KzA

Something
​youtu.be/ZzxBktFIlhs

For each song, I have sought to combine the original character of the piece with some special modifications, to highlight, comment on, or elaborate the existing material.

New music releases

I periodically release a new music via Soundcloud. The works are a mixture of new compositions, improvisations, and recordings of pieces by other composers. You can listen and track my work here. If you click on a given track, you will find more information about it on the track page.

Natural History of Song

The Natural History of Song is an ethnomusicology project created by a team of musicologists at Harvard. I was working as part of the team to help compile a large library of transcribed field recordings from indigenous cultures around the world. Once completed, the recordings along with the transcriptions and other data were used to make cross-cultural analyses of similarities across musical cultures. The research was a success and the paper was published. You can find it here. The data will also be available for scientists and musicologists and the public.