EmPloyable was written for Tongue Drum samples and Disklavier that is spatialised through an 8.1 speaker array - using MaxMSP.
In Fall 2016 Tim undertook an Exchange program at the University of Calgary, Alberta in Canada.
There he studied under Professor Allan Bell who was traditional with his approach to composition. It gave Tim a great insight in harmony counterpoint, and development of motivic and thematic material. The class sizes were 6 students so every class each student would have their work scrutinised and analysed by their peers and also the professor.
During his time there Tim composed two works Discontinuity for Flute and piano - performed by Fiona Kuhn on Flute and Joel Parker on Piano and A Way Away for String Trio performed by Christine Chen on Violin, Janet Leahy on Viola and Tyuler Stweart on Cello.
Soundcloud links below. This was a great opportunity to focus on the composition of chamber music.
In 2016 Tim received a commission to compose a work for the Connecticut Summmerfest held in Hartford, Connecticut for its maiden year.
The commission was to write for the US Husband and Wife ensemble - Resound Duo. The instrumentation is for Percussion and Soprano voice. This was an educating experience for Tim, because of the nature of the instrumentation and not knowing the performers capabilities. Compositionally Tim was inspired by Mary Finsterer's In Praise of Darkness 2009 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mRrwRPKIo4 http://www.resoundduo.com/ Today we were informed of the "Noise Machine" performance as well as hearing more from the 3rd year composers.
This week we had some of the 3rd year composers show us compositions they were working on.
Today we had a visit from composer Yitzhak Yedid and I was lucky enough to get some feedback on a short compositional exercise.
In Composition Workshop week 4 we were informed of the Performance week/s starting as of next week, as well student's playing music and talking about there pieces in detail.
Today at composition workshop, we learned about Paul-stretch, Compositional Behaviours and Strategies of Composition.
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