May 2, 2024

Gabriel Gekoskie, Dr. Nico Gutierrez

Hello Everyone,

Welcome to the weekly blog post and, unlike last week, this one is not gargantuan with multiple subheadings.

If you have not yet listened to it, I encourage you to navigate over to the episode tab to see the most recent episode of the Theorist Composer Collaboration with Gabriel Gekoskie and his piece, Modest Mutilation. A very fun conversation that got quite deep into the technical weeds with granular synthesis. It had been a while since I had spoken to Gabe since our undergraduate degrees at University of Florida, and this was a fun way to reconnect and involve him in a new venture. I would also encourage you, if you haven’t already, to watch the accompanying animation created for Modest Mutilation featured on Gabe’s YouTube channel, created by Durnis Markov. Thank you again for Gabe for coming onto the Theorist Composer Collaboration and sharing his work, Modest Mutilation.

Modest Mutilation Episode: https://www.tccollaboration.com/modest-mutilation-gabriel-gekoskie/

Gabe contact page: https://www.tccollaboration.com/guests/gabriel-gekoskie/

Durnis Markov animation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98wwQtVfWr0

The next episode, released this coming Monday, will be featuring Dr. Nico Gutierrez and his masterful orchestral work, Teogonia. I don’t want to spoil very much, but this was a fun and exciting episode. As I say within the interview, Teogonia is legitimately one of the best orchestral pieces I have heard in a long time. It is also certainly an honor to be discussing the piece that was used as his doctoral dissertation! We discuss Dr. Gutierrez’s career, background, the inspiration of Teogonia, how it is constructed, and the status of the fields of music theory and composition. You are really not going to want to miss this, so make sure you are following our social media accounts and subscribed on the podcast streaming platform of your choice. Mark you calendar for this Monday, May 6^th, for Dr. Nico Gutierrez and Teogonia!

If there are any composers wishing to be featured here on the TCC podcast, please feel free to reach out! Whether that’s through our contact page or over social media, I would love to meet with you and discuss possibly being featured on the show.

The spring academic semester is finally over, and I am excited to produce content over this summer break and the following year. I can share that the next guest after Dr. Gutierrez will be Dr. Michael Khale and his piece We are the stories we’ve been told. After this, although it is not yet fully confirmed with the timeline of releases and availability, will include the first guest music theorist host, and separately, an artist outside of the academic zeitgeist. Exciting things to come, but I don’t want to spoil anything until these plans are confirmed. Make sure to check out the previous episode, and make sure to watch the next this coming Monday. Thank you for reading, and I’ll see you later on the Theorist Composer Collaboration.

- Aaron

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Aaron D'Zurilla

TCC Founder/Music Theorist

Hello, my name is Aaron D'Zurilla and I am the primary host and founder of the Theorist Composer Collaboration. I created the Theorist Composer Collaboration out of a love of the connection between the artist and their art. Music Theory, in my view, is a lens and avenue in which to understand people and their experiences. Often, as Music Theorists, and individuals attempting to find success in a historically hierarchical field, we find ourselves turning-away from modern music and artists when choosing what to study. As many academics could attest, the decision to study or analyze a work goes beyond that simple decision. It is a choice to highlight, spotlight, platform, and even promote the continuation of a commodity or idea, even if it is in a critical light. While there is plenty of space for such scholarship, and new inventive work in the field of Music Theory is developed everyday across the world in numerous topics, there is a stark lack of attention to the new music of today.

My personal rationale can be surmised in that we should not wait for music to be 40,50,80+ years old to begin pondering the creation of the art of today. Why wait to engage with literal generations of new composers, creating worlds of novel sounds and experiences everyday across the world? Generally, when looking at where composers and their compositions find support, it is within the composition community, across academia, festivals and through online platforms specific to the field. The hope of the TCC is to expand the support for modern, living compositions outside of these ar… Read More

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