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Tag: improvisation

Let’s Keep it That Way for percussion and laptop (2014)

Posted on September 25, 2014August 10, 2022 by Jay Batzner

I am an avid reader of comic books and one of my all-time favorite series is Planetary by Warren Ellis and John Cassaday. One of the main characters in the series is The Drummer, a man who can control the flow of energy and information with drumsticks. By drumming on computers, televisions, or electrical panels…

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New recording – Cursed Motives

Posted on January 28, 2013 by Jay Batzner

Over the weekend, composer/organist Carson Cooman sent me an organ realization of my open-instrumentation work Cursed Motives. It was such a great rendition that I asked him if I could post it here. He didn’t have a problem with it, so here it is! He even made a YouTube video for it, if you’d rather…

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Cursed Motives for open instrumentation (2009)

Posted on July 31, 2012January 28, 2013 by Jay Batzner

These are all motivic ideas that I adore and have yet to work into a successful composition. Several of them have been used in different pieces but they have not found the right home yet. I don’t know if this is the right place for them, but here they are. Performed by Carson Cooman, organ…

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No Disintegrations for alto sax and live electronics (2010)

Posted on July 31, 2012August 10, 2022 by Jay Batzner

This composition is about a blocked melody. A simple lyrical line is trapped within clouds of shattered fragments and textures. As the composition unfolds, the disintegrated fragments which encumber the melodic line begin to fall away until only the melody remains. The title is, as you probably know, a quotation of Darth Vader’s instructions to…

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unHandel for organ (2007)

Posted on July 31, 2012August 1, 2012 by Jay Batzner

As I studied harpsichord, I fell in love with the keyboard sonatas of Handel. They have a charm and quirkiness about them that drew me in completely and I always enjoyed playing them. The Sonatina in B-flat Major (G40) is especially dear to me. I decided to take this piece and obsess on it at…

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