Music and ideas

The following thesis is in four parts consisting of three of my music scores and one thesis. The first music score is Streaming Arhythmia, written in 2007 for my second jury performance at UCSD. The piece is written for a small chamber orchestra and was premiered at UCSD, by graduate students of the music department, October 13th 2007. The second score is Breathing, written in 2007 for the Icelandic wind octet Hnukapeyr and premiered by them on Dark Music Days in Reykjavik, Iceland, February 9th 2008. The third score is Breath, written in 2008 for vocalist, 6 stethoscopes and computer. The piece was written in connection with a course at UCSD that focuses on compositions with computer collaboration. The piece was a collaboration project between me and Daniel Shapira, who did the computer work of the piece. The piece was premiered February 26th 2008 by vocalist Stephanie Aston. The fourth part is a short thesis about the connection between music and emotion. The purpose of this essay is not to superficially try and explain the term 'emotion' in music in general. Rather, the significance of emotion in music creation is the focus, to try to understand and explain how emotion can be said to inevitably be a part of the creational process of any piece of musi