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Random musings (or rather specific ones) by David Rakowski — composer, pizza maker, failed trombonist, ex-font maker. Also a kind of stand-in website.

Sketches

N.B. these are all pretty big files and will take a long time to download.
  • Air (movement from Symphony 7)
  • Anniversary
  • Blue Horizon
  • Breakdown
  • Bump (prélude #29)
  • Cantina
  • Compass
  • Current Conditions
  • Dance Episodes (Symphony #5)
  • Dream Logic
  • Dream Symphony
  • Earth (movement of Symphony 7)
  • Eighters Gonna Eight
  • Entre Nous (oboe quintet)
  • Études Book V
  • Études Book X
  • Exact Change
  • Fire (movement of Symphony 7)
  • Flutudes
  • Hotfingers
  • Hyperblue
  • The Ladies Who Lunch
  • Lee
  • Mazurkska
  • Mikronomicon
  • Arabesques I Have Known
  • Natura Morta
  • Penalty Box
  • Persistent Memory
  • Piano Concerto
  • Piano Concerto 2
  • Piano Concerto 3 (March 2015, discarded)
  • Piano Concerto 3 part 1 (MacDowell Colony, Jan-Feb 2018)
  • Piano Concerto 3 part 2 (Bogliasco Foundation, Mar-Apr 2018)
  • Piano Concerto 3  complete second movement
  • Piano Concerto 3 third movement
  • Piano Concerto 3 complete
  • Piano Trio 4
  • Préludes Book I
  • Préludes Book III
  • Préludes Book VI
  • Préludes Book VII
  • Préludes Book VIII nos. 75-80 (the rest are packed under heavy boxes)
  • Préludes Book IX
  • Préludes Book X (#99 omitted)
  • Symphony #4 "Scare Quotes"
  • Symphony #6 (summer 2014, discarded)
  • Symphony in D complete
  • Symphony #7
  • Talking Points (Right Wing Echo Chamber)
  • Ten of a Kind
  • Terrestrial Planets
  • Violin Concerto No. 2
  • Water (movement of Symphony 7)
  • Zyg Zag
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  • Eight is enough
  • Hegel, Georgy Girl
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  • How can we stop him? His glamour increases!
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  • I went downtown to look for a job
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  • My buttstix article
  • Octaves roasting
  • Processed? Or organic?
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  • Silence of the whams
  • Swinging both ways
  • Talk the Talk
  • The Big Easy
  • The computer changed everything. Again
  • The Means Justifies the Ending
  • The one percent solution
  • The Vessel with the Pestle
  • Video shilled for Davy-O's Star
  • VocalWriter Reducks
  • What Milton Actually Wrote
  • What's it all about — Bobbie?
  • What's it all about — Claude?
  • What's it all about — Wolfie?
  • You Gave Me Such a Start
  • Zio pizza

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  • Movie lines in passive voice
  • Regular verb song titles
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  • Bubbies
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Most Popular Posts

  • Octaves roasting
    It being the day before Christmas, it's time to air out the old interval song, which dates back to graduate school, with various tweaks ...
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    Unbelievably, I never went to an artist colony until I was on my thirty-third trip around the sun. What was I thinkin'? I even celebrate...
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