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
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.