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About quartertonality

A graduate of the Masters program in Classical Guitar Performance as well as Music Theory/Composition at the State University of New York at Fredonia Adam is active as a performer, composer, educator and copyist. He is currently working on research concerning the guitar works of Leo Brouwer and Anton Webern, has recently completed a new edition of Webern's Op. 18 and is working as an assistant of a colleague that is researching works of Arnold Schoenberg. Adam is currently a PhD candidate in Music Theory at the University of Oregon. Formerly a member of the Ethos New Music Society which is responsible for the promotion of new music on the Fredonia Campus and elsewhere in Upstate New York (and beyond) through the production of student concerts of newly composed music, guest lecturers, symposia and concerts by new music ensembles like "eighth blackbird", "Auros" and "Continuum". I write reviews for groovemine.com as well as tympanogram.com. This site will collect everything that I write for those sites, as well as posts that are exclusive. Mostly reviews of albums and EPs of new independent music with sample songs and a few links to help you purchase the albums that are reviewed. Album reviews typically delve pretty deep and can range anywhere from 700 to 2,500 words depending on how much there really is to say about the album. I try to analyze the music in as many ways as I can before writing and typically will listen to anything that is reviewed at the very least 10 times before committing anything to writing. I'm a bit insane.