About my music:

I compose classical/serious music. I have been composing for eleven years. I have always taken great interest in classical music. I would say my music has a touch of the baroque. I am told my music flows nicely, that it has direction and I sound like I am in control. I like to compose long pieces. I can't be expressed with short ones. Though I do have the occasional short piece that just didn't seem to want to continue. They are all good pieces, good works as I am both told and as I believe myself. I said that my music sounds baroque. Well since it is also emotional, it has a touch of Romanticism to it. I cannot make too much claim that my music sounds like modern classical. It has little elements of that. That is simply due to preference. I dislike the peculiararity of atonality, where too many notes are shooting out at you at once, lol. I am not big on percussion. And I simply believe that classical music should have great form, direction, and generally be made to induce a state, preferably an emotional state such as joy, or perhaps sadness, malancholy, or whatever I want the listener to experience and usually what I am going through at the time.

I have studied music theory for eleven years now. I first went to school to learn it. And I have always purchased text books on it. I have devoured counterpoint. I have around fifteen compositions dedicated to counterpoint that have a ren feel to it. Perhaps I will post them someday. Along with counterpoint I have studied tonality, as should be obvious, and form, structure, harmony, you know, general things which I am always exited to progress with.

First and foremost, I believe music should express the artist's soul. And that it should transcend both the listener, and the composer. It certainly does transcend me. Will it do so to you? That is entirely up to you.

I can also say that music pours out of me freely. That I can compose things effortlessly. I do of course put a lot of work into what I do. But it begins with a very good outline. And it ends with a greater overall form, having spent weeks on each work, in one case years as you'll see below. I don't have to struggle to make a good outline. What can I say? I can't help but be proud.

I mostly compose in minor keys, so my music is dark, somber, malancholic, and sometimes sad. But it's been called things opposite to that before too.

I like to find the proper balance between repitition and contrast. I avoid atonality as greatly as I can. I believe music sounds best when it is tonal and coherent. This has not been common for classical music for over a hundred years.

Here is a description of the work I am most proud of, music entitled "Transcendence of the soul."

This is music which I have been developing for four years now. As a composer for eleven years that's not so much, but it's enough time to thoroughly progress something and to learn it and use it to truly express myself. It's music i've lately been a lot more interested in. It's a 22:09 work of music.

The first time I started working on this I decided I wanted to create classical music which that showed my feelings on the baroque painter Rembrandt. His works were very dark and somber, very malancholic and moving to me. Rembrandt transcends as music does.

The second version of it was inspired by something which truly helped it to become a work for organ. The tune "Dancing Mad" by Nobuo Uematsu, a 17 minute work for organ which depicts sheer madness. It was the first music I heard which really showed me the potential of the organ. At one moment it shows simple madness. It devlopes and the mind tries to fight the madness. the organ moves onto very deep thought... the man, who is illustrated in the work as a dictator, is trying to fend off the madness. It can't be done. Something clicks in him. Something is not right... "Where is this place I have gone?" Then! Madness hits him! Pure, unbridled madness! He is "dancing mad." It is an incredible work of music.

I moved onto the third version recently and found my greatest inpspiration in the song "In-a-gadda-da-vida," the full version, by Iron Butterfly. It is very powerful music in it's full version. This and dancing mad showed me more than anything the true power and potential of the organ. The organ truly does have the ability to take you places. To make you sense things, such as deep thought, such as transcendence, such as an agitated emotional state, furry, or different things such as peace, nobility, you know, whatever. The organ is a great instrument to illustrate something.

When i compose for the organ it uplifts me. The most recent version was simply taking from my previous inspirations, kind of examining a little these works/songs and whatever else, and refining what i've done before, making up for past flaws. Music does have the power to transcend and the organ proves that, but the listener must allow it to. It takes a patient, dedicated mind to appreciate a work of over 20 minutes as this is.

Finally, I want to tell you thank you for listening. Much joy for you and here's to music that never dies!

Adam