Just wanted to let you all know that I'm playing at the Big Red Barn tomorrow night at 8pm if anyone wants to come out. I'm opening for a touring band called Castanets, and while most of my stuff is acoustic (and some with a loop pedal), Castanets plays country music heavily tempered with noise and sound constructions. Should be pretty cool. It's being put on by Fanclub Collective.

Hope to see you there!

I wanted to see how subtle and slow I could make drastic timbral changes.

Hi,

Sorry it took me so long to figure this out. My name is Maurice Chammah and I'm a Sophomore in A&S, majoring in Music, College Scholar, and maybe Near Eastern Studies. I grew up playing violin in the classical world and in the last 5 years or so I've slowly veered towards playing a lot more guitar and some piano in rock/pop bands, as well as into ethnomusicology stuff (Arab music, Gamelan) in this department. I write both "pieces" in the classical sense and "songs" in the pop sense.

My interest in digital music stems from recent experiences recording with my band, back in Texas, and having very little clue as to what was going on the whole time. At the same time, I've been looking to learn about music in different directions than the one that traditional music theory takes you in; set theory, etc.

 I'm definetely interested in applications of sound beds/collages to "pop" music, as well as the heady modern classical world, and where these two places meet.  I'm pretty much aesthetically promiscuous, so I'm excited about the variety of this class.

M

 ps. i dont think this upload worked, its on www.myspace.com/mauricech