New Clarinet Sonata Published

My publisher, BRS Music, has posted my new clarinet sonata for sale on their website, here: http://www.brsmusic.net/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=204

New Action Track "Mayhem"

Here's a pretty furious action score that I was working on recently. It's up on Cue Pop if anyone is looking for some dark / industrial driven fight sequence music. Might work for horror too.

http://www.cuepop.com/details.asp?LibraryID=2283#

(the "play" button on CuePop is the small green arrow in the mid upper right)

New World Music Track

I had a fun time yesterday putting together some "world" music.

The creepy background noises are from extended techniques on a gong. Its amazing the weird noises you can get. Other special effects include a synth-xylophone in a super high register, with an echo effect to create the "raindrops" background effect.

Noah Potter - Forgotten Eden

Grand Tournament Las Vegas

Looking forward to this event in a few weeks. I need to "finalize" my strategy to take advantage of the new rules changes. I think mainly I'm just going to go to have a good time rather than to be truly competitive: next year the gloves come off :D

Just Web-Published My Clarinet Sonata

I just put up a web page featuring my clarinet sonata, with both the score, parts and recording. I'm hoping to use Google advertising to drive some traffic to the page, and maybe follow up by contacting some prominent clarinetists.

The piece was a lot of fun to play & perform. I like to think that it strikes a nice balance of being modern but also accessible and enjoyable.

Nothing in particular

I figure it’s a more authentic blogging experience if I let my entire audience disappear between blog updates. What can you do.

So, while waiting rabidly for the next democratic primary elections, I started using face book more regularly. Specifically there’s this one game called Knighthood, which is really fascinating. It’s like playing Nobunaga’s ambition but with real people as vassals. I’m really impressed with how it uses a social network as a platform. Its almost the next step for those ancient Bulletin Board based games like trade wars, but with a much larger audience. They’ve got a great viral model, in that you must invite friends in order to get any where. I worry that this fact makes it too much like a pyramid scheme rather than a game. What chance to late arrivals have?

In other news, I think I’m going to check out the Warhammer 40k grand tournament in Los Vegas this year. It looks like a good excuse to drag the wife to Vegas. We’ve been looking to see some of the cirque shows, and also play some more video poker.