Have Fun Writing Music. Par HARRIS PAUL. Musical Doodles is the secret to having fun with composition! Writing music is often viewed either as complicated, with far too many rules, or something that a computer programme does for y…

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 pos…

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 an…

Composer Alex Shapiro's piece “Paper Cut” is reminiscent of a movie soundtrack to which the musicians can imagine their own dramatic scene. The piece asks the performers to “play” paper like a percussionins…

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 st…