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"Music is a language we don't know, but are all fluent in."
- James Rhodes
Multi-instrumentalist
Photo by Layne Sullivan
Being a well versed musician can mean many things. As a full-time teacher, performer and orchestrator, I have gained valuable skills and insights as they relate to the music business.
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No. 2 "The Deserted Cabin" by R. Nathaniel Dett arr. Layne Sullivan
This is a preview to a score I submitted for my orchestration class in the spring of 2023. This project was the first of 4 projects I did in the class, and it is the one I am most proud of. I am not a string player, so I had to do a lot of self-study about playing technique and scoring for strings and harp. I believe this demonstrates my capacity to write/arrange music for various instruments that I have not studied professionally. This project, and this class laid the foundation for my love of composition and arranging.
Digital Piano Re-Configuration
After six years of extensive research, I determined that it was possible to patch in a 50-year catalog of programmed piano/synth sounds from the 1980's into my modern keyboard using nothing but a printer cable and a couple free downloads. Following my discovery of what was needed and the steps to take to tell each program how to agree to the next, I fused 1986 MIDI technology with modern digital computers and sound systems to create a well-oiled super-piano capable of replicating some of the most beloved/called-for synthesizer sounds in music history, which can be heard on albums like Elton John's The One, TOTO's The Seventh One, and countless others. After days of reading and many hours of trial and error, I heard some of my favorite piano sounds through my own fingers for the very first time.
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