Scott D. Farquhar

I am pretty keen to start producing a CD this year. I have three pretty solid ideas for CDs that I *want* to do, and there are advantages and disadvantages to each concept. I decided to bang some of these out and possibly get some input from those who are tuned in to my psycho-regurgitations…

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So one of my current projects that is in-the-works is a collection of pieces for unaccompanied solo trumpet. I’m now shooting to put together a suite of about 5 short pieces, two of which are already complete. One could argue this project settled into place based on a pay-it-forward type dare.
I wrote the first piece [...]

The release schedule for Royalty Free Music Collection offerings will be sporadic over the next 8-12 weeks.
I am currently in the process of moving and getting my house ready for rental. Shortly after this process is done, I’m going to be in the middle of the busiest time of year for work and will probably [...]

Time for Sting Week once again. This piece is intended to be a “somebody just said something funny” type of musical sting. For some reason, I always feel like I need to use a double reed instrument in this type of situation.
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An updated version of a musical sting originally written for The Arbiter Chronicles episode “Dreamer”. Another instance of words being used to inspire the rhythm in the musical idea. In this case, the line just before the sting, “Well, I never!”
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I decided that the Royalty Free Music Collection podcast could use more short segments that would be appropriate for use as stings, bridges, or transition segments in projects. Eventually this turned into the realization that I should be able to go weekly with every other week as “Sting Week” where I can produce a piece [...]

A short musical sting providing a little taste of suspense or even creepiness. A musical version of the hairs sticking up on the back of the neck.
This composition marks the first for Sting Week in The Royalty Free Music Collection podcast. Every other week will be a short (less than 10 second) piece that can [...]

My unaccompanied solo flute piece “Fractal Suite” is now available as a PDF download at Splunge Music. This is probably the last of any previously published works that I will edit and make available in a PDF edition, at least for quite a while. Eventually, I will probably also do Heavenly and Let Them Go, [...]

My cello and piano piece, Manipulation, is now available as a PDF download. An audio excerpt is also available on my works page. Hard to believe I wrote this thing almost 15 years ago.
This piece was an interesting lesson for me. It was basically conceived and written in a very abstract way. Decisions were made [...]

Another slight extension outside the norm for The Royalty Free Music Collection so far. The main goal here was… to get funky… And have more fun playing with mixing and transposing different loops to create a piece of bed music.
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