Trent Johnson : Audio Archive

The original email that started it all:

From: Cole, Mark
Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 8:34 AM
To: Bergmans-Martens, Eric; Chen, Roger; Gunterman, Cory; Jensen, Nate (ETW); Johnson, Trent; Laurila, Kevin; Lawrence, Greg; Payne, Kennedy; Radostitz, Vince; Raymond, Chris; Shoemaker, Peter
Subject: February Five-Note Festivial

Hi, all-

Ok, so we're all back from the holidays…OK, physically, if not mentally. In any case, it's time for another NikeDudes challenge.

Here's the deal this time. Take the following five notes in the order below and make something interesting of them:

E F# D G A

This exercise is actually derived from something a local pianist and composer, Michael Allen Harrison, likes to do at some of his concerts. He'll ask anyone in the audience to come up with any five notes in any order. He writes them on a slip of paper, thinks about it a moment, and then improvises a piece based on that five note phrase. It's pretty cool. One of these five note improvisations ended up being the basis for an entire movement of his first concerto, a very nice piece, by the way.

We're not suggesting that you have to write a full symphony based on E F# D G A, but we'd like to see anything you come up with using this phrase as inspiration. No min/max length here; just be creative.

Due date: February 15. This should give us enough time to put together something cool. Let me know if you think we need till the end of the month.

Send mp3 files to Kevin Laurila so we can post the results!

Happy composing!

Cheers,

Mark Cole Sr. Business Systems Analyst - Nike Product Creation IT - KG-1