Feona Lee Jones – Dragsúgur (2019) – Roberto Granados, Solo Guitar
I composed a solo acoustic guitar piece, Dragsúgur (the wind that comes in through the window) that was performed by Roberto Granados at Center for New Music (55 Taylor St, San Francisco, California 94102) August 11, 2019. The solo guitar piece was highly inspired by Frank Zappa and Tom Waits so if you like their music there is a chance you might like this piece.
Program Notes:
Dragsúgur was written for acoustic or electric solo guitar. It features angular rhythms and dissonant chords with a Frank Zappa meets Tom Waits flavor. It features a waltz feel in the
beginning, which transitions to a driving rhythmic pulse utilizing invertible counterpoint and harmonics. The ending is a return to the angular waltz but with brief interjections of earlier gestures.
Roberto Granados Biography: https://www.robertogranadosguitar.com/biography
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BIOGRAPHY
Feona Lee Jones currently lives in Santa Cruz, where she works as a freelance composer, pianist, and educator. As a composer and pianist, she continues to explore her own musical language, influenced by classical, jazz, North Indian classical, avant-garde film, experimental theatre, and electronics. Her music has been performed in the United States, Iceland, and Poland. She has been commissioned by prestigious ensembles, organizations, and artists such as the Del Sol String Quartet, Composers Inc., Awesome Orchestra, The Humane League, Opera on the Spot, Luger Hofmann-Engl, and Invoke String Quartet. Never satisfied with a single medium, she has worked in concert music, film music, interactive games, and most recently, opera.
ARTIST STATEMENT
As a composer, I strive to cross the cultural sound barrier, to erase existing boundaries between modern and ancient, East and West, masculine and feminine, physical and spiritual. Challenging norms and experimenting with possibilities in the sonic realm is at the core of my work as an artist. I hope to bridge disciplines working with and across disciplines. I avoid stereotypical ways of working with these media and have found my voice as a composer unifying them. Like most art forms, I believe the function of music is to create an experience, so that each work evokes a new conclusion, and is dynamic and evolving in nature.
