This is a relatively “simple” concept that is actually really tricky to pull off! Watch my YouTube video on how to use a MIDI keyboard with X-plane here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAfJ-VVxvvs
As always, contact me with any questions you have!
This is a relatively “simple” concept that is actually really tricky to pull off! Watch my YouTube video on how to use a MIDI keyboard with X-plane here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAfJ-VVxvvs
As always, contact me with any questions you have!
I’ve decided to go ahead and release the whole video of my senior recital from back in November! It had been a long time coming and I’m very proud of the end result. By the way, the audio was recorded on UWF’s in-house recording system, which I then synchronized to the video that I took on my camera. Here is the video, and here is the program in order:
Concerto for Alto Saxophone (1979) 0:00 – Ingolf Dahl
Recitative
Passacaglia
Blake Riley, piano
Concertino da Camera (1935) 15:34 – Jacques Ibert ** My memorized performance of this placed 2nd place at UWF’s Concerto Competition in 2021.
Allegro
Larghetto
Animato Molto
Blake Riley, piano
Partita for Flute, BMV 1013 (1723-1724) 28:30 – J.S. Bach
Allemande
Intermission
Bop Duets (1980) 35:50 – Bugs Bower
No. 2
Kameron Horak, alto saxophone
Fifteen Two-Part Inventions (1723, arr. 1969) 38:50 – J.S. Bach
No. 3 Arr. Larry Teal
No. 4
Brittany Comer, alto saxophone
A Tribute to Sax (1994) 43:05 – Alain Crépin
Allegro
Largo
Allegro Vivace
Blake Riley, piano
Encore: Partita II for Violin (from memory) 55:44 – J.S. Bach
Allemande
I composed this saxophone quartet in April 2021 and premiered it at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp, where I was a counselor. When I returned to Florida from the summer, I was able to record it at ComposerFest XVI in Pensacola back in September, with the UWF saxophone quartet. Here it is! Hiccups aside, it was a lot of fun to work on something and perform it alongside my peers.
Much like last time, “Sax FiRe” and I did a wonderful remote collaboration effort for the holiday season! I decided to do Fly Me to the Moon because it seemed like a good choice. I know it’s not necessarily a holiday-themed song but I feel like I always hear it around the holiday season. If you’re interested in the nerdy stuff behind the production of this song, I basically used ProTools with some Sonivox plugins to create the “backing track”, which I then sent to Sax FiRe who recorded with it in Logic and sent me back the individual tracks. I did some harmonizing and melodic interplay with my own recordings on my sax solo in the 2nd half which turned out nicely. There’s one lick I did under the altissimo B at the end that sounded way better harmonized up a 3rd, so that’s probably my favorite part.
I’m not going to put this one on Spotify so for now I’ll just direct-link the Google Drive file. I haven’t decided whether I’m going to make a music video but if I do I will link it here. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ghpZ37ld9UKpUNVbkoaJCRq70JIg_Mum/view?usp=sharing
As per the title, this short clip is from a film called “The Mime” that I found on YouTube. It was my first attempt at doing something like this and I hope to gain more experience doing it. I basically took the video from YouTube, then I watched the first minute or so with no sound whatsoever. I made sure to limit my exposure to the original sound design so I could create something completely original. I did have to listen to it with sound once to get the dialogue right, but then I just watched it while composing ideas after that. Check it out here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/15zDwYi1FbcNX6Jn9wbFAmYTRGmDHtBIJ/view?usp=sharing
If anybody’s interested in getting a full run-down on how I did this, or if you’d like to work with me on your own projects, you can contact me.