Brandon Nelson
IMAGO DEI
Category: Personal
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My Roots and First Steps in Composition The setting for our story: almost the exact middle of the upper peninsula of Michigan; small town, working class rust belt community with a community music tradition. I started composing when I was 11 (around the time I joined the school band). David Dagenais was my first band…
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Well you can judge for yourself. This is actually a sax solo (if I remember correctly) that I was asked to transcribe for horn so I’d have a solo to play with the band. This was in the summer of 2011.
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Unboxing….or is it? Which most piques your curiosity?
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Get a quick tour of my composition studio and an overview of my current projects. In future episodes, I’ll go more into detail on those projects. Enjoy the video! https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRabkM9J/
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Oh, what a year! For the first half of 2014, things were chugging along as they usually had in past years: hit or miss opportunities, slow trickle of actual writing, plenty of self doubt. But then, I came up with an idea that would electrify my career: the free commission drawing. I literally came up…
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I’m sure by now we’re all pretty familiar with the idea of using dice (and other such devices) to make chance-based choices in composition. I decided to see how far I could take this concept and I came up with the: FLEXIBLE INTEGRAL-ALEATORIC PRECOMPOSITIONAL ALGORITHM Within a Consonant Neotonal Framework (Optional) Whole-Piece Governors Note that…
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I don’t remember ever “becoming” a composer. I’ve always felt the inner push to write down musical ideas and it’s an impulse I’ve always been happy to follow. It’s always seemed logical and natural to me, then, to invest the better part of my life in pursuit of the profession. My young adulthood was spent getting two…
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I was lurking around one of the composers’ groups on Facebook recently, when I saw that someone had posted about the omnibus progression. It piqued my attention. The term sounded like one I’d come across in my studies, but I’d gotten hazy on the particulars. So, as I normally do when I come across a…
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Performers, conductors, teachers, fans, friends, family, and My Fellow Composers: As I have in the past, I want to take a moment, at the close of the year, to reflect on my music career and to set an ambitious course for the coming year. But first, thank you all for your support, encouragement, wise words,…
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