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Isaac Smith
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 25 ก.ย. 2019
The official TH-cam channel of Isaac Smith, composer/performer. You'll find original compositions and arrangements, as well as performances of works that contribute meaningfully to the new music canon. Welcome!
Cow Therapy
Program Notes:
My dad’s side of the family lives on a farm in the Florida panhandle and raises cows on their pasture. My aunt Jamie visits them every day, spending time with the curious, silly, playful animals. She calls this her “cow therapy”, and that was all I needed to come up with the piece. It draws on the quirky, angular noodling of Art Tatum in the midst of a bouncy stride accompaniment. Cow Therapy was composed as part of a collaboration with the Jacobs piano department, and I’m grateful to Chenchun Ma for lending her sense of humor and effortless elegance to the piece.
Performers:
Chenchun Ma, piano
My dad’s side of the family lives on a farm in the Florida panhandle and raises cows on their pasture. My aunt Jamie visits them every day, spending time with the curious, silly, playful animals. She calls this her “cow therapy”, and that was all I needed to come up with the piece. It draws on the quirky, angular noodling of Art Tatum in the midst of a bouncy stride accompaniment. Cow Therapy was composed as part of a collaboration with the Jacobs piano department, and I’m grateful to Chenchun Ma for lending her sense of humor and effortless elegance to the piece.
Performers:
Chenchun Ma, piano
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Finding Parking, for string trio
มุมมอง 22หลายเดือนก่อน
Program Notes: There is so much to be angry about in our world that it can be stifling to try channeling that anger artistically. I decided to start small, and work my way up. This piece is about all the little frustrations of our daily lives: slow internet when assignments are due, Kroger being out of the one thing you went there to get, and finding parking at Indiana University at 10:30am on ...
Daydreams of Violet the Dog, for woodwind quartet
มุมมอง 33หลายเดือนก่อน
Program Notes: This piece was commissioned by the Ultraviolet Wind Quartet. Their modern-sounding name actually is inspired by one member’s dog, Violet. Never to miss a chance to compose joyful, whimsical music, I took Violet on a series of adventures, some real and some imagined. It is at times tender, playful, heroic, and a little ominous, but never fear: she will always make it back home, to...
Prayer for Rain, for mixed chorus
มุมมอง 41หลายเดือนก่อน
Program Notes: I love the rain, and I will never tire of writing music about it. The text and music for this piece, however, were conceived during a particularly horrible summer of wildfires in California. It is, on the surface, a description of the beauty and comfort of experiencing a thunderstorm inside one’s own home, but it is also a very real prayer for rain for my home state, which has be...
Extension, for solo flute, live electronics, and AI
มุมมอง 23หลายเดือนก่อน
Program Notes: The nn~ object in Max/MSP uses a machine learning algorithm to recreate sound from samples given to it in a data set. When I approached Robin Meiksins about the idea for this piece, she suggested using the audio from her many flute lectures and improvisations on TH-cam as the data to train the AI algorithm. Much of the electronic sound of Extension comes from that algorithm, whic...
Tropospheres II. As Above, Snow Below
มุมมอง 25หลายเดือนก่อน
Program Notes: The troposphere is the layer of the Earth’s atmosphere where weather occurs. This piece began as an homage to three climates I love: the rainy Pacific Northwest, the quiet snows of the Black Forest, and the blistering sunny summers of Sacramento. This is only a performance of the second movement, which contains images of footsteps in snow, dripping faucets, and the grandeur of a ...
Tom Jones' Damnation
มุมมอง 54หลายเดือนก่อน
Program Notes: Upon watching the 1963 film Tom Jones, starring a young Albert Finney, I was both amused and appalled. The bulk of the plot centers around a young rake’s series of romantic escapades, while a woman who loves him follows his trail, attempting to find him and profess that love. He is arrested for a surprisingly non-lecherous crime and is set to be hanged when it is revealed he was ...
Confluence, Discovery, for horn, cello, and piano
มุมมอง 42หลายเดือนก่อน
Program Notes: The confluence of the Sacramento and American rivers occurs near Discovery Park in Sacramento. One is bright blue and sparkling, while the other is dark, muddy and opaque. This piece, commissioned by Tyler Goodwin-Souffront, begins with a music box piano and a lyrical soli line that eventually diverges to become a playful dialogue. This progresses to a portrait of the second rive...
Isaac Smith - Prelude (After Duke). for Brass Quintet
มุมมอง 2.3K2 ปีที่แล้ว
This original piece is inspired by Duke Ellington's "Prelude to a Kiss", a tune I hold dear. In "Prelude (After Duke)", I've used different elements of that tune to create my own harmonies, textures, and emotional headspaces. It's a bit mysterious! Like Duke's music, it's more complex than it seems on the surface. However, there are plenty of moments of tenderness and exuberance that I feel emb...
Istanbul (Not Constantinople) Mashup: They Might Be Giants vs. The Four Lads
มุมมอง 13K3 ปีที่แล้ว
When I was researching They Might Be Giants' hit "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)", I found out it's actually a cover! The Four Lads, a vocal quartet, recorded the original in 1953. The original has a groovy slow latin beat, but I also love the frantic goofy swing of They Might Be Giants' version, so I mashed them up! Enjoy! Music for sale at my website: isaacsmith.me/store DISCLAIMER: I pre-reco...
Ievanman (Wellerman Sea Shanty and Ievan Polkka)
มุมมอง 405K3 ปีที่แล้ว
There have been a couple of viral music trends I've enjoyed recently: the TikTok mashup of the sea shanty Wellerman, and the resurgence of an old Finnish polka called "Ievan Polkka", played by a blind Turkish drummer and accompanied by a "vibing cat". Both are earworms, and I thought, "Hey, what if they went together?" This was the result: two meme songs for one! I had a lot of fun with this on...
Isaac Smith - How Can I Keep From Singing?
มุมมอง 4.1K3 ปีที่แล้ว
"How Can I Keep From Singing?" is an American Baptist hymn composed by Robert W. Lowry around the year 1869. Its lyrics talk about how it's both joyful and necessary to make music when the world is suffering. It reminds me of a quote by Leonard Bernstein: "This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before." In 2020, the many chal...
The Place I'll Return To Someday, by Nobuo Uematsu
มุมมอง 2.3K3 ปีที่แล้ว
If you'd like to know how I recorded or filmed this, please let me know in the comments! I'd be happy to make a tutorial! Final Fantasy IX is one of my all-time favorite games. As a kid, seeing the incredible graphics of the opening cutscene with this haunting recorder trio made me want more than anything to pursue music as a career. I even did an arrangement of this tune for my senior project ...
Tomorrow's Ahead, by Kohei Nishishita (⻄下 航平)
มุมมอง 8023 ปีที่แล้ว
Tomorrow's Ahead, by Kohei Nishishita (⻄下 航平)
Wand'ring Warriors: Frog's Theme and Shadow's Theme
มุมมอง 1.5K3 ปีที่แล้ว
Wand'ring Warriors: Frog's Theme and Shadow's Theme
Thanks for 5k likes!
That was tight. You sounded amazing!
Ieva's Man
ISAAC!!! It’s been two years buddy! Where you at???
Hang on...there are 5 lads here!
Program listing?
Ah, thank you! docs.google.com/document/d/16TV3Ta5V6k9D5UA3-J2QsEfb3U1BEynUGOU3rPNmJDc/edit?usp=drivesdk Also, love the Mondrian profile pic. I wrote a piece about one of his paintings once!
woooo you are now Dr. Music :D
Excellent! Congratulations! We are very proud of you! -Dad
Good job!
Love it when all five of yourself join in for Wellerman. :D
The time it took me to realize it was all one person and not a band in same clothes as each other is almost embarrassing. My only excuse is watching late at night when Im half asleep.😂
So…I was just out drinking for my birthday, came home, saw this, and thought ‘Holy shit. These fellas look remarkably similar. How’d they get that going?’ I get it now.🤦🏻
Drank so much, you're seeing double!
Habe erst bei 0:38 gemerkt, dass es immer derselbe Typ ist und keine Band.
Stimmt!
I love it. Not that hard to do if you have the right software. Probably used blue screen and repositioned chair separated not to overlap. Then each part and background is on separate layer in software. If needed tempo can be adjusted in each layer. Then reprocessed to join the layers. Good job. And excellent brass musician.
I just heard these two songs back to back by coincidence and thought someone should mash them up. I'm delighted to see someone else had the same thought and executed it so well!
This was a gift to behold! I came across this by accident, but so glad I did!
I'd kill for ths sheet music combo lol God I love these songs and never thought they;d have something for them on Trumpet
You can buy it at isaacsmith.me, no need to kill anybody!
@@IsaacSmithComposerlol thanks for the response but I do hope you know I was using a joking tone alongside an old metaphor
@alphawolffestudios1169 yes indeed, I'm something of a jokester myself. But you never know, some brass players have a violent streak!
Very nicely 👍👍 - should do lighting drive by reflection edit for background too ...be amazing
very nice! hard work 👍
Can't wait to hear these guys live
When I sat next to Isaac in a tuba quartet, there was only one of him...hmmm.
Shhhh! You'll give away the secret!
🎺🎺🎺🎺🎺🎺🎉🎉🎉🎉😊😊
potevano fare di meglio, si avvicina soltanto agli originali, specialmente wellerman
How did bro clone himself 4 times?
We have the technology
Such two separate and wildly differently styled pieces of music have no business harmonizing this well, dammit! 😂
I'm gonna guess you're playing a (l-r) l horn, tuba, euphorium, trombone, trumpet. No knowledge, just instruments I've heard and guessing. Nice segue though. Wellerman a bit dated now, the guy didn't kick on from his moment of fame
I believe the description has what instruments I'm playing. And also I'm getting a doctorate in music, it's kind of hard to pivot to doing TH-cam full time :| Not actually sure I'd enjoy it either! Thanks for watching though!
I was humming these songs in my head and realized I kept combining them so looked it up and others had the same idea!
I think the best part was when they played wellerman.
took me 1 min and 40 seconds to realize they are the same guy....
I love this version! Very well done! Greetings from Czech Republic! 😊
Isaac, I love your mellow tuba!
Never realized both had such similar tunes
Me neither until I heard them both back to back one day!
So nice to see Gordon and the Freemans have a talent for music.
sir this is crossing the beams
I hare nugger
simply beautiful
Fantastic performance.....Love from India......
Great
As a trumpet player for 7 years, the quality of this always impresses me, well done! :)
Thank you!
“Horn”
I "play" the "horn".
Sheet music?
isaacsmith.me/store
I came here for a sick acoustic mashup but had to wait for 2 and a half min till I got it. Nice job regardless!
I super duper love it.
Great JOB! <3
Actually it sounds better when played a slightly faster rate since when I leave it at normal it sounds a bit slow to me. I increased the the playback speed up to 1.25 instead of a Normal so now it sounds more like a true polka to me. For best result for the final portion of the music, I increased the playback speed of 1.25 at 1:22 frame.
If only I could play it that fast! The pedal tones just don't speak at that tempo.
Can I use this audio as background music for my videos if I link to this video onscreen at the end of the video?
Sure!
@@IsaacSmithComposer I’ll post the link as soon as it gets done
Took me 2 minutes into the video to realize they're all the same guy 😵💫
The blue shirted guy is so good at this
show, muito essa música !
you can't use clone jutsu