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Music Page Added!

Colton Provias — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 06:09:15 +0000

I have just added a page with a good bit of the music I have written on it to this blog. It can be accessed at ColtonJProvias.com/compositions. I will be adding more music as time goes on.

Two Addresses, One Website

Colton Provias — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 06:27:36 +0000

Recently I have adopted using my middle initial when writing my name. This has been reflected in several locations around the internet and even in the title of this blog. Well, to keep things consistent, this website can now be accessed via ColtonProvias.com and ColtonJProvias.com. Not much of a difference, but I have a new section of this site in the works. I am also going to be fixing all of the issues with music on this site with the addition of a Flash MP3 player.

WordPress 3.0

Colton Provias — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 23:44:04 +0000

Through what could be a stupid decision, I have once again become an early adopter of the new version of a piece of software. In this case, it’s WordPress 3.0 beta 1. So far, I have had no problems with it. The only complaint would have to be the size of the text, but I’ll fix that when I’m not too lazy to do it. I’ll also replace the image in the header soon.

Anyway, final week is approaching in just a couple of weeks. And yet there is now no excuse to stop me from blogging more often as I now have WordPress on my Droid.

Rewriting Siderial

Colton Provias — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 04:34:45 +0000

As I’ve been progressing on the writing of my musical, I found that I need one song that breaks the boundaries of reality within the show and launches the cast and audience into a world of fantasy for a few minutes. Well, it’s not a world of fantasy as much as it is a dream sequence gone awry. So, faced with this challenge, I decided to once again go back into my past, blow the dust off an old song of mine, and re-score it for stage. In this case, I chose Siderial. Siderial is a piece I have been thinking of putting into the show for a while (as evidenced in the overture for the show) but never found a spot for until now. The song has undergone massive alterations and has been expanded to about 5 minutes in length plus an additional play-off/scene change piece that also incorporates Apex into the piece.

For now, I will publically refer to the song as Siderial until I get a few recordings done. Siderial is not the name of the piece in the show. Although, I will say that the song has to do with physics.

[Audio clip: view full post to listen]

Updates en route!

Colton Provias — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 05:10:12 +0000

I apologize for the massive delay, but I’ll be posting some updates later this week. I have a lot of drafts for updates stored on my phone, so stay tuned!

Reorchestrating the Overture

Colton Provias — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:19:10 +0000

As some of you already know, and some of you probably don’t, I am writing a musical about nerds. Recently, with changes to the plot to make the show less predictable, I found myself needed to make changes to the music. It was at this point that I discovered that my original plan of having a synthesizer do the string and brass parts was too restricting. So, to take advantage of Sibelius 6′s feature set and to give myself more room to breathe musically, I killed the synth and replaced with a brass section and a string section. Anyway, here is the rewrite of the Overture, opening song, and the play-off for the opening song.

[Audio clip: view full post to listen]

Also, I tend to update my Facebook Page with music-related updates more often than I do here.

After MusicHostr

Colton Provias — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:23:56 +0000

After I finish the rewrite of MusicHostr, I am reviving a previously dead project.

Then again, zymio never really died.