Ambient Suite 4-Part - Digital Sheet Music

SKU: A0.1031314

An SATB choral piece in three movements:
I. Tones
II. Sounds
III. Noise

Duration: Flexible

Note from Composer:

"I created this choral suite in the year 2014 with the

intention of creating a piece of music that would give a

large SATB choir, (that you would normally hear sticking

tightly to exact written music) a chance to improvise and

figure out how to best create spontaneous music and listen

to one another.

In the first movement, performers are encouraged to pick a

tone, any tone they would like, and stick to it, when

prompted with a note without a specific pitch.  Don’t be

afraid of dissonance.  It happens sometimes.

In the second movement, "Sounds," performers are encouraged

to push their own comfort boundaries.  Don’t be afraid to

challenge the meaning of what we call "music"... All the

better if you realize yourself that music can really be

anything.

In the third movement, "Noise," conductors are encouraged

to merely cue the note changes.  Let the performers come up

with their own switches from "ooh" to "oh" to "ah." It can

be fast, slow, rhythmic, anything they’d like.  Give the

occasional measure number when cueing a note, to help avoid

losing place, as easy as that can be in a piece like this.

Don’t worry about perfection.  The word "perfection" cannot

exist in this piece.  I created this with the idea that no

two performances will ever be the same.  This gives you the

opportunity to create "you" in the form of music."