by Peter Saltzman | Jan 20, 2023 | Music, Sheet Music, Uncategorized
A Masterpiece from My Middle Period Peter Saltzman · American Tune: A String Quartet in Four Acts (LIVE RECORDING) By the time you reach thirty or so, if you have designs on becoming a great composer, you should have pretty much mastered the art. At least, that’s what...
by Peter Saltzman | Nov 11, 2022 | Music
Below is the trailer for my TV show, 2099, best viewed on a large screen with decent speakers or headphones. The show is called 2099, of course, and it’s a one-hour SciFi Musical Drama. Yes, you read that correctly, SciFi MUSICAL Drama. Everything is sung, spoken, or...
by Peter Saltzman | Nov 19, 2021 | IOTL, Music
The moment a theme is stated, it wants to do something. What? Like all lifeforms, it wants to replicate, mutate, transform…become something. That something is musical structure. How we get from a single note to a theme (motif), to a full-blown musical structure (song,...
by Peter Saltzman | Nov 3, 2021 | IOTL, Music
Musical themes seem to emerge from the sonic abyss almost by their own volition. But where do they come from? Are they elusive attempts to describe the moment? State of musical mind? Emotion translated into sound? Or are they just, as I discussed in the previous...
by Peter Saltzman | Oct 24, 2021 | Featured Album, Music, One Human Minute
No Time Like the… When I began time-releasing this album of one-minute songs in 2018, I proposed to get it done in a year. Boy was I wrong! 60 0ne-minute songs may seem doable in a year’s time—and in fact I completed the writing in primary production for...
by Peter Saltzman | Oct 24, 2021 | Featured Track, Music
Peter Saltzman · Signifying White Man 4 15 PM The Musicians in My Head This track comes from an album is “in the works.” I’m still culling through several tracks to not only see what fits, but what fits together collectively. In the meantime…...