MATTHEW BRIGGS
  • Home
  • Works
  • News/Events
  • Teaching
  • Contact
  • Store
  • Home
  • Works
  • News/Events
  • Teaching
  • Contact
  • Store
MATTHEW BRIGGS
 music 
 /
 out
 /
 there

I'm your huckleberry

4/29/2019

0 Comments

 
I had a lot of fun collaborating with trombonist Kenneth Johnson on this piece for trombone and live electronics. Premiered at FSU. Exploring the vast range and harmonic capabilities of the trombone, I'm Your Huckleberry uses electronics to expand the trombone's sound. A silent mute is used to capture the projected sound and essentially turn the trombone into a MIDI controller. While there are many possibilities with this, I decided to always leave at least some of the original trombone sound within the soundscape, as this is supposed to create a larger instrument, not a new one altogether.
0 Comments

ymusic...ymusic!

4/15/2019

0 Comments

 
I had the INCREDIBLE opportunity to work with this amazing group of musicians. I worked with them over a seven-month period to create the experimental, tone-bending, introspective monstrosity that is Somewhere, Something. 

More on yMusic: ​https://www.ymusicensemble.com/
Picture
0 Comments

my music at the smithsonian

4/6/2019

0 Comments

 
Two of my works, Viscid and I'm Not Speaking English, were selected to be performed at the ACCelerate Creativity and Innovation Festival in Washington, D.C. Featured in the main lobby of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, it was a performance I'll never forget!
Picture
Picture
0 Comments

viscid

4/2/2019

0 Comments

 
Today was the much-awaited premiere of Viscid, for solo flute and electronics. I wrote this piece both for and with Kayla Hanvey (pictured), and it was a great learning experience for both of us. I took on the ambitious task of creating a fixed media track entirely using her recordings. I asked her to record some long tones and some short motifs, and then used those as the colors in my compositional palette. Listen below!
Matthew Briggs · Viscid
Picture
0 Comments

    Matthew Briggs

    Composer and Arranger

    Archives

    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    June 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    April 2018
    February 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    September 2017
    April 2017
    January 2017
    November 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    June 2016
    November 2015
    July 2015
    May 2015
    March 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    January 2014
    November 2013
    August 2013
    May 2013
    April 2013
    March 2012
    October 2011
    March 2011
    November 2010

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

Contact

mhbriggs@att.net