Colton J. Provias » Musical http://coltonprovias.com Composer and Programmer Wed, 18 Aug 2010 05:08:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1-alpha Rewriting Siderial http://coltonprovias.com/2010/04/01/rewriting-siderial/ http://coltonprovias.com/2010/04/01/rewriting-siderial/#comments Thu, 01 Apr 2010 04:34:45 +0000 Colton Provias http://coltonprovias.com/?p=1238 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.

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]]> http://coltonprovias.com/2010/04/01/rewriting-siderial/feed/ 1 Reorchestrating the Overture http://coltonprovias.com/2010/02/03/reorchestrating-the-overture/ http://coltonprovias.com/2010/02/03/reorchestrating-the-overture/#comments Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:19:10 +0000 Colton Provias http://coltonprovias.com/?p=1190 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.

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

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