Jacob Theedee Music (ASCAP)

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"If the deliberate distortion and glitches in And everything in-between do not betray Thiede's penchant for popular music, then the groove section of the piece certainly does. The composer actively seeks to fuse the realms of classical and popular music in his work, often transcribing pop tunes for various chamber ensembles and composing such works as "Forgotten Places, Abandoned Buildings for Pierrot Ensemble and Metal vocalist. The groove found in And everything in-between was particularly inspired by Panda by hip hop artist Desiigner, in addtion to the Baroque album by violist Nadia Sirota. In response to the concept of the potentially fictional line distinguishing classical music from popular music, the composer has asserted:

'Good art doesn't have to be innovative. Good art can be just simple and clearand taking off from something else. And it doesn't have to be new, it doesn't have to burst the bubble. It's a fine balance I'd like to think that, you know, pop culture artyou know, yes, we should question it. We should question where mass media is coming from. But on the other hand, it's still an expression of the human experience Why should we undervalue it?'"

Krisztina E. Der, "And Then There Was Light: Lighting Art in Flute Repertoire," And Then There Was Light: Lighting Art in Flute Repertoire (dissertation, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2017).

And everything in-between

Flute Solo

It Escapes Me is an exciting piano duet featuring rhythmic complexities with familiar loops. Written for a reading with Amy Williams and Helena Bugallo, the premier performance was by Colin McDearman and Mengfei Xu.

It Escapes Me

Piano Duet-2 Pianos, 4 Hands

Winner of the 2020 International Duo Symposium Composition Competition

Blue Blood Sky

Saxophone Duet

Lullabies I play my children began immediately after my wife, Arie Thiede, gave birth to our twin boy and girl. What seemed like a simple effortshort, simple tunesbecame a resurgence of creative meaning in my artistic life. I finished my PhD in composition from the University of North Texas in 2020; at the height of the pandemic, I could say I accomplished one of the most difficult achievements during my lifetime. With job freezes in the arts, I went on to work at an Amazon warehouse for the better part of the year. I was burnt out on music as I struggled to find meaning in the harsh post-academic world. Two years later, with the birth of my twins, I found myself taking on new meaning in my artistic life with these lullabies. Practically, they are meant to soothe the ears of both babes and adults alike. If I can be honest, I wrote these lullabies with my adult children in mindI have no idea who they might become, but at least I can give them this gift: "the music my heart sings."

Jacob Thiede
Lake Dallas, TX 2024

Lullabies I play my children, Volume 1

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Commissioned by Laura Pillman Patterson in 2020, this piece is an exciting use of Looper pedals with fixed media playback. Laura was so kind to test out my Patreon by being a commissioner for the greater part of a year. In that time, I composed miniatures "Vignettes" that functioned as experiments and etudes for a flutist to test the many capabilities of a loop pedal (Record, Overdub, Play, and Stop functions). 

Electronics to be uploaded and then downloaded by the performer at: https://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Thiede,_Jacob

Vignettes

While it was raining in the woods was created as a result of many trials and experimentations with live electronics. Ultimately, I would be influenced by certain choice-based games such as "Until Dawn" and "Life is Strange." I wanted my music to be like an ongoing event, where every choice influences multiple aspects of the work ("consequential music," if you will). The player chooses between diatonic pitches and "non" diatonic pitches to result in different alterations to the music.

While it was raining in the woods

Alto Sax Solo

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