Author Archives: Sam L. Richards

Cotton Wood Lining Premiere, This Weekend!

By Sam L. Richards | Published: September 8, 2010
This weekend at the around/about Contemporary Dance Festival in La Jolla, CA, somebodies dance theater will perform Cotton Wood Lining. My music, written in collaboration with their choreography, will be featured in the performance this Saturday, September 11th, @ 8pm. Go see! Go see! Buy your tickets now! Here’s a little snippet: around/about Contemporary Dance [...]
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September Haiku in Michigan

By Sam L. Richards | Published: September 5, 2010
Yesterday fall struck In the winds I can smell the trees turn to rainbows
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More meta-drivel (or not). The poetic residue lives on.

By Sam L. Richards | Published: August 9, 2010
Inspired by the poetic residue I discovered in my sketchbooks, I’ve taken to writing more frequently lately. For the past few days, after I crawl into bed I’ve doodled words into my “to-do’s” notebook driven on by my state of hypnagogic delirium. Here are the results. Some are silly, some are elegant, and some are [...]
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Good ol’ Bertrand: Another brief jab at the historical obsession in music education

By Sam L. Richards | Published: August 3, 2010
Those of you who have heard or read my ranting about how obsessed with the past music education is (especially compared to the other arts!) will not be at all surprised by my attraction to this jewel of a quotation plucked from Bertrand Russell’s oeuvre. I rediscovered it yesterday while venturing into the climes of my [...]
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Everything that Rises Must Converge, by Benjamin Krause

By Sam L. Richards | Published: July 28, 2010
While I’m at it, I might as well post a link to my peer’s work Everything That Rises Must Converge, which was featured on the same concert as my Suite of Roads. This performance feature’s the composer as soloists, with myself conducting. Everything That Rises Must Converge from Sam L. Richards on Vimeo.
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Suite of Roads, Movement II.

By Sam L. Richards | Published: July 27, 2010
Video (and audio, of course!) is now posted of the Eugene Contemporary Chamber Ensemble’s May 13th, 2010 performance of Suite of Roads, a two-movement work for orchestra. The movements, severely contrasting in style and energy from one another, have been posted on separate days, with the first movement along with the works program notes having [...]
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Suite of Roads, Movement I.

By Sam L. Richards | Published: July 26, 2010
Video (and audio, of course!) is now posted of the Eugene Contemporary Chamber Ensemble’s May 13th, 2010 performance of Suite of Roads, a two-movement work for orchestra. The movements, severely contrasting in style and energy from one another, will be posted on separate days, with the second movement coming tomorrow. My program notes from the [...]
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Some poetic residue

By Sam L. Richards | Published: July 20, 2010
The nature of my creative process leaves me with sketchbooks littered with seemingly disassociated concepts. Stray idea gobs hang from folded corners, and outlines of amoebas filled with gorgeousness sit atop the pages. Sometimes I glance back, even just a few days, discovering snippets that could easily have been penned by someone else, because I [...]
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My Articulation Engine

By Sam L. Richards | Published: July 15, 2010
I like feeding ambiguity through my mind’s articulation engine, like routing disparate threads through a loom; what was once detached and meaningless becomes interwoven and enriched by its now sensical and codified surroundings.
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David Lang’s music now playable on Rock Band

By Sam L. Richards | Published: June 18, 2010
Get a load of this bit of weekend trivia: According to Amanda Ameer’s blog over at the ArtsJournal, several works by the Bang on a All-Stars are now available for download for at-home Rock Band “rocking”. Works include David Lang’s Cheating, Lying, Stealing, Michael Gordon’s Yo Shakespeare, and Evan Ziporyn’s Shadowbang (Head). Julia Wolfe’s Believing [...]
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