Pensive and emotional the unusual textural music of MOMENT offers reflection and stillness in an often frenetic world. Repeating notes and haunting lyrical lines give musicians the opportunity to explore expression through subtlety. Evocative sounds conjure fleeting contrasting images as the wind band creates a seamless fabric woven from the union of their instruments their chant-like voices and the ghostly echoes of a wistful accompaniment soundtrack. What are the moments that have moved you? To perform the piece you'll need an audio system capable of playing the prerecorded audio tracks from a laptop computer via a small digital audio interface connected to anaudio mixer. Download information is provided in the printed piece. Dur: 5:45

From the acclaimed composer of Paper Cut AlexªShapiro this unique high-energy work could beªdescribed by the following: imagine Arnold Schoenberg ªHenry Mancini and Charlie Parker walking into aªdance club in Havana and staying for three minutes. Tight Squeeze ventures into new territory as it exploresªchromaticism and syncopation against a prerecordedªpercussion groove. The result is the repertoire's first electroacousticªtwelve-tonetechno Latin bebop band piece! Okay maybe Schoenbergªdid all that first but it never sounded quite like this! To perform the piece you'll need an audio system capable of playing the prerecorded audio tracks from a laptopcomputer via a small digital audio interface connected to an audio mixer. Download information is provided in the printed piece. Dur: 3:15

Pensive and emotional the unusual textural music of MOMENT offers reflection and stillness in an often frenetic world. Repeating notes and haunting lyrical lines give musicians the opportunity to explore expression through subtlety. Evocative sounds conjure fleeting contrasting images as the wind band creates a seamless fabric woven from the union of their instruments their chant-like voices and the ghostly echoes of a wistful accompaniment soundtrack. What are the moments that have moved you? To perform the piece you'll need an audio system capable of playing the prerecorded audio tracks from a laptop computer via a small digital audio interface connected to anaudio mixer. Download information is provided in the printed piece. Dur: 5:45

From the acclaimed composer of Paper Cut AlexªShapiro this unique high-energy work could beªdescribed by the following: imagine Arnold Schoenberg ªHenry Mancini and Charlie Parker walking into aªdance club in Havana and staying for three minutes. Tight Squeeze ventures into new territory as it exploresªchromaticism and syncopation against a prerecordedªpercussion groove. The result is the repertoire's first electroacousticªtwelve-tonetechno Latin bebop band piece! Okay maybe Schoenbergªdid all that first but it never sounded quite like this! To perform the piece you'll need an audio system capable of playing the prerecorded audio tracks from a laptopcomputer via a small digital audio interface connected to an audio mixer. Download information is provided in the printed piece. Dur: 3:15

From the acclaimed composer of Paper Cut AlexªShapiro this unique high-energy work could beªdescribed by the following: imagine Arnold Schoenberg ªHenry Mancini and Charlie Parker walking into aªdance club in Havana and staying for three minutes. Tight Squeeze ventures into new territory as it exploresªchromaticism and syncopation against a prerecordedªpercussion groove. The result is the repertoire's first electroacousticªtwelve-tonetechno Latin bebop band piece! Okay maybe Schoenbergªdid all that first but it never sounded quite like this! To perform the piece you'll need an audio system capable of playing the prerecorded audio tracks from a laptopcomputer via a small digital audio interface connected to an audio mixer. Download information is provided in the printed piece. Dur: 3:15

Homecoming is a distinctly American piece of music which ventures emotionally from doubt to hope and finally to celebration. The most simple wind instrument of all the human voice echoes meaningful homecomings wherever home may be and from whatever circumstance one returns. Written for the soldiers of the U.S. Army TRADOC Band Homecoming seamlessly flows between traditional styles that originated in the U.S. from post-minimalist concert music to jazz. As the music grows into a waltz rhythm welcoming smiles dance with it to the end as loved ones are reunited.

The renowned composer of Paper Cut and Tight Squeeze has created a love child from these two popular works. The result is Lights Out an audience-wowing excursion into a new realm of opto-electro-acoustic wind band repertoire that incorporates visual and physical elements into an exhilarating piece. The music itself is stunning but for the full effect you'll want to devise a performance that plunges the audience into darkness and suddenly surrounds them with glowing colors of LEDs and glowsticks. A very physical approach to connecting band music to life - and to light! Dur: 4:30 To perform the piece you'll need an audio system capable of playing the prerecorded audio tracks froma laptop computer via a small digital audio interface connected to an audio mixer. Download information is provided in the printed piece.

For Concert Wind Band and Pre-recorded Soundscape-Evocative train sounds allow listeners' own trains of thought to wander freely in this emotionally captivating electroacoustic tone poem. As with other signature Shapiro works like Immersion and Liquid Compass an expansive palette of shifting textures and density creates striking unexpected contrasts. A remarkably seamless wash of acoustic and digital sounds offers new meaning to the term prerecorded track as the piece picks up steam and arrives at a forceful abrupt end. To perform the piece you'll need an audio system capable of playing the prerecorded audio tracks from a laptop computer via a small digital audio interface connected to an audio mixer. Downloadinformation is provided in the score. Dur: 7:15

For Concert Wind band and Pre-recorded-Alex Shapiro first brought electroacoustic music-- paired with using an everyday object as an instrument-- to middle school bands with her 2010 piece PAPER CUT. Now comes ROCK MUSIC possibly the very first geo-electroacoustic minimalist band piece largely devoid of melody and of rhythm. Conceptual and atmospheric the music features compelling textures from instruments voices and rocks that weave a wind band into a piece of sonic fabric stretched across linear time. As the notes slowlycrawl melt and scrape over a sonic landscape in random irregular ways were connected to the ancient glaciers which carved the world we know and which we strive to protect. Like PAPER CUT ROCK MUSIC can be equally appreciated by mature bandsand their audiences as well. To perform ROCK MUSIC youll need an audio system capable of playing the prerecorded audio tracks from a laptop computer via a small digital audio interface connected to an audio mixer. Download information is providedin the printed piece. Dur: 4:15

For Concert Wind band and Pre-recorded-Alex Shapiro first brought electroacoustic music – paired with using an everyday object as an instrument – to middle school bands with her 2010 piece PAPER CUT. Now comes ROCK MUSIC possibly the very first geo-electroacoustic minimalist band piece largely devoid of melody and of rhythm. Conceptual and atmospheric the music features compelling textures from instruments voices and rocks that weave a wind band into a piece of sonic fabric stretched across linear time. As the notes slowlycrawl melt and scrape over a sonic landscape in random irregular ways were connected to the ancient glaciers which carved the world we know and which we strive to protect. Like PAPER CUT ROCK MUSIC can be equally appreciated by mature bandsand their audiences as well. To perform ROCK MUSIC youll need an audio system capable of playing the prerecorded audio tracks from a laptop computer via a small digital audio interface connected to an audio mixer. Download information is providedin the printed piece. Dur: 4:15

Continuing in the tradition of her innovative electroacoustic band works including Paper Cut Immersion and Tight Squeeze Alex Shapiro's Liquid Compass takes the musicians and the audience on a journey that spans the mystical and the triumphant. A subliminal connection to the sea is conveyed through the creative use of metal bowls filled with water and flutists will particularly enjoy the otherworldly ooh-wah effect that wends through the piece. Commemorating¦the 140th anniversary of Carthage College's wind band this work¦migrates to different places but never loses its bearings in pursuit of a musical true north. To perform thepiece you'll need an audio system capable of playing the prerecorded audio tracks from a laptop computer via a small digital audio interface connected to an audio mixer. Download information is provided in the printed piece. Dur: 9:00

From the acclaimed composer of Paper Cut AlexªShapiro this unique high-energy work could beªdescribed by the following: imagine Arnold Schoenberg ªHenry Mancini and Charlie Parker walking into aªdance club in Havana and staying for three minutes. Tight Squeeze ventures into new territory as it exploresªchromaticism and syncopation against a prerecordedªpercussion groove. The result is the repertoire's first electroacousticªtwelve-tonetechno Latin bebop band piece! Okay maybe Schoenbergªdid all that first but it never sounded quite like this! To perform the piece you'll need an audio system capable of playing the prerecorded audio tracks from a laptopcomputer via a small digital audio interface connected to an audio mixer. Download information is provided in the printed piece. Dur: 3:15

Pensive and emotional the unusual textural music of MOMENT offers reflection and stillness in an often frenetic world. Repeating notes and haunting lyrical lines give musicians the opportunity to explore expression through subtlety. Evocative sounds conjure fleeting contrasting images as the wind band creates a seamless fabric woven from the union of their instruments their chant-like voices and the ghostly echoes of a wistful accompaniment soundtrack. What are the moments that have moved you? To perform the piece you'll need an audio system capable of playing the prerecorded audio tracks from a laptop computer via a small digital audio interface connected to anaudio mixer. Download information is provided in the printed piece. Dur: 5:45