I recently posted this year’s viola/piano duet birthday present for Ed, Evocation XXXI – you can listen to the computer play it and follow the score here.

While I composed it, I already knew that I would also be arranging the piece for string orchestra. Todd Maki, the conductor and sound engineer who has worked on both of my short film musical Edgar Allan Poe adaptations, “The Tell-Tale Heart – a musicabre” and “The Pit and the Pendulum – a musicabre“, asked me to provide a piece for the Contemporary Integrational Orchestra Project. In an upcoming concert they will perform Evocation XXXI along with 10 other pieces composers created especially for them.

I will post about that at the time. In the mean time, you can listen to the computer do its (relatively) best imitation of a string orchestra here (and compare it to the piano/viola version):

EVOCATION XXXI for String Orchestra