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Music Downloads
John Avery Bice
( 1 9 2 3 - )
Warrick Vincent Bice
( 1 9 6 2 - 1 9 8 8 )
You are invited to audition rare, selected works by Jack Bice and son, Warrick Bice, from recently mastered and recorded repertoires.
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Symphony No. 1
Jack Bice, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1993
orchestral collage
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bit 1st movement full
bit 2nd movement full
bit 3rd movement full
bit 4th movement full
Complete (long load)
This work was composed on an Amiga computer using sampled orchestral sounds and phrases.
- horn solos performed by the composer -
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HARPEGGIO
Jack Bice, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1992
- real-time, syncopated jamming permutations
by the composer on an "arpeggiating", harpsichord-voiced keyboard -
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QUARTET #1
jack bice, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1993
First performance July 3, 1999:
Steina Vasulka, 1st violin, Jack Miller, 2nd vioiln, Jean Thomas, viola, Meg Niher, cello.
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1st movement
2nd movement
bit 3rd movement full
4th movement
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SERENGETI SUITE
jack bice, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1993
- a tone poem -
beating sun, distant thunder,
animals at a watering hole
- hyenas, birds, elephants, wild boar -
heat waves, thunder,
approaching humans, fleeing animals
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warrick vincent bice
Warrick Bice died in a tragic drowning accident in 1988, at age 25. He had graduated
in physics from the University of Texqas, Austin, but was deeply involved
in composing. An accomplished violinist, he performed with the Austin
Community Orchestra and worked with the university music media lab,
utilizing synthesized sounds and midi sequencing.
He was born in Boulder, Colorado, in 1962, the son of Amy Middleton Bice and John Avery Bice
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5 PIECES FOR GUITAR
These pieces were composed in the winter of 1987 and taken to Santa Fe
as a Christmas gift for the family that year.
Some of the rhythms, especially in piece #2, were developments of complex
mathematical formulae devised for musical purposes.
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RETROSPECTIVE
Jack Bice RETROSPECTIVE, Paintings, Drawings, WWII Combat Photos, Stereographic Art, Poetry, Photo Essays, Writings
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