Music
Rob Speer
Here are some of my compositions. I need to work on the many-year gap in getting things recorded.
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Metastable Dance
April 2005
A piece for string quartet. The main theme would sound kind of like a modern tango if it weren't in 5/4 time.
In the Moment
August 9, 2002
I wrote this piece to reflect my experiences at Mathcamp 2002. Dan Z liked the title and made it a theme in his end-of-camp speech.
Anticipation
May 3, 2002
Some composition lessons helped to break me out of the mold my compositions and half-compositions were settling into. This is a kind of flashy piano piece in 7/8 (or maybe 14/8).
I could have picked a better name.
Files updated 8/12/2006 -- replaced the digitally sampled version with one recorded on a real piano.
Chestnuts
December 19, 2001
An upbeat arrangement of a well-known Christmas song.
Unweave
August 12, 2001
I finished this piece on the last day of Mathcamp 2001. It got its title from an eerily appropriate item card that was left around from that year's Interactive Literature game, A Wizard's Fair. The card said:
- Unweave
- Removes the magic from an enchanted place or item. Usable once only.
Unrecorded pieces
In progress
A ballad for the scummiest space pirate there ever was. For this to make sense, it would help for you to have been at Mathcamp 2006 and its installment of team fMAD's Interactive Literature.
- Snow on City Streets
December 2004
I found the sheet music! I should record this sometime.
- Sonata
November 2004
A piece in sonata-allegro form for string quartet that I wrote for 21M.304 (the fourth theory/composition class at MIT). There's never been a good performance of it.
- Serenade
March 2004
I set the poem "Serenade" by Edward Coote Pinkney to music. Bill Cutter (MIT's choir director) sang it. I wish I had a recording of it.
