Your bit of education for the day! ^_^
Made this as part of my lecture videos I’m putting together for the school summer session (see History of Technology in Music for more info); this is part of my lecture on opera and the cultural/technological changes it provoked in music…
New Release: “Isolation Loop”
Now available everywhere– Isolation Loop…
“Isolation Loop” is an original creation made with loops broken down from H.I.F. Biber’s Passacaglia for solo violin from his Rosary Sonatas of 1676. The viola and violins blend with a driving soundscape of synthesis and drums to create a haunting texture at home in any era.
Upcoming Live Streamed Performance
This Friday, May 15, at 2pm I’ll be presenting a live-streamed, 30 minute concert of solo violin music (with assorted accompaniment technologies) for the residents at Hillcrest in La Verne CA.
If you’re interested in listening in to the show, contact either myself or Loida Arriaga at Hillcrest and we’ll get you all set up.
Enjoy a Chamber Concert Streamed from the Czech Republic on Wednesday
“…members of the Moravian Philharmonic Olomouc with PARMA Recordings present the finest works of influential composers past and present…”
I’m honored to have a short piano solo of mine—“The Reluctant Carnie”—performed during this event on May 13! Enjoy the show; info can be found here.
New Interview Up
A fun interview with PARMA Recordings is now available for reading!
Today, Sarah is our featured artist in “The Inside Story,” a blog series exploring the inner workings and personalities of our composers and performers. Read on to discover how Disneyland helped solidify her desire to create music as a kid…
Inside Story
Speacial shout-outs to IPAs, the Big Island of Hawaii, and Mario Kart lol. 😂
Single “Hope Unfolding” is Now Available! — Sound Deliverance 🎙️
Now out on your favorite streaming devices, Hope Unfolding is the latest must-hear single! Featuring stirring synths, violin soloing, and passionate beats, find it on your favorite music platform here.
Single “Hope Unfolding” is Now Available! — Sound Deliverance 🎙️
Basement Jams: Looper Exp 2, “Passacaglia”
Today in my basement studio I again experimented with the AudioKit L7 looper app, but this time I took a 17th century Passacaglia from the Rosary Sonata by H.I.F. Biber, and made it my own!
Basement Jams: Looper Experiment #1, “Mellow”
I’m back in my basement studio with my native flute, handpan, and my viola to experiment with the AudioKit L7 looper app! (I love AudioKit’s app SynthOne, too–I highly recommend checking it out!)
Ideally, I would use headphones and record the sound properly, but I wanted to see how the app handled a spontaneous “live” sort of setting…. Enjoy this randomly improvised, modern passacaglia, and expect more musical experiments to come… 😉
By the by, be sure to check out my single Chant de Grenouille sur la Lune if you like this kind of sound.
Praise for “The Dark Glass Sinfonia”
From a glowing review for Prisma Vol. 3 on textura:
Wallin-Huff’s brooding The Dark Glass Sinfonia is as mysterious as its title, the composer here melding atonality with modal harmony in a dramatic tone poem that recalls at certain moments Bartok and Shostakovich… The quality level is high throughout [the album], but the release earns its recommendation for the pieces by Alabaca, Wallin-Huff, and Vassdal in particular. Of all the album’s settings, one imagines these three would most stop an audience in its collective tracks upon encountering them in a concert set-list.
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