Underwhelming Force

I have almost as much fun coming up with album art for an album as I do writing music. At the moment, this is what I’m considering for my next album: 

Keep in mind it’s a work in progress, and the colors are likely highly subject to change.

So I just had an unpleasant experience with a piece I was working on. I have been writing a piece for a woodwind quartet (I do classical as well as electronic) and was playing through the bassoon part (on an actual bassoon,) when someone listening walked up and said,
“Isn’t that a Debussy piece?”
I was naturally surprised; I’d thought it was an original idea. I played it for them again, and it turns out it was almost exactly the same as au Clair de la Lune, by Debussy. It turns out my idea was actually a memory of a piece I’d heard a long time ago. What I’d thought was an original work on my part, is really just an arrangement for woodwind quartet, or at best a variation (basically the classical version of a remix). I guess I’ll go back to Electronic music, after that bit of disappointment.

If you’ve never heard of Peer-Gynt, that’s totally understandable. It was a musical written back in the good old days of 1867, with the music written by Edvard Greig. This isn’t really important, except that one of the movements, Act II Movement 5, is quite possibly some of the best classical music ever. It’s slightly more likely you’ve heard of it; it’s called: ‘In The Hall of the Mountain King.’ If you haven’t heard it, take this chance to enlighten yourself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRpzxKsSEZg

The build up is slow, I will admit, but once it gets going, it is just the most absurd, bombastic thing I think I have ever heard. One of the things I’ve always wanted to do is remix this piece.