Steven Bryant

When I released of the iPhone/iPad app for The Machine Awakes, I mentioned I was looking for someone to develop the Android version. In a matter of hours, composer Robert Langenfeld contacted me offering to take on the task, and I'm delighted to announce it's now posted and publicly available on the Google Play store! The app functions identically to the iOS version, so check out that...

A performance and practice app for Hummingbrrd (solo Euphonium + electronics) is now out for iPhones and iPads! Plug this into your hall or onstage PA system, and you're ready to go. This app was designed by Henry Truong (same developer who created The Machine Awakes app), who came up with a brilliant graphic and icon: In performance mode, you simply have a big PLAY arrow, and a...

Last Fall, the Duke University Wind Symphony toured with Ecstatic Waters, and band member / Bari Sax player / chemist / IT guy Walt Martin built the hammer portion (the box was in others' hands). He documented the whole thing in detail here: http://waltmartin.com/building-a-mahler-hammer/ Anyone and everyone who's built a Mahler Hammer / Box for Ecstatic Waters - send me a photo / video if you...

I've been writing so much music over the past year, I haven't taken time to talk about any of it! Tomorrow, 16 March, the Indiana All-State Honor Band, under the direction of John Lynch (Director of Bands at UGA, soon to be Sydney Conservatorium!), will premiere my brand new work, sevenfive. Based on the same core material as the work I wrote last year for the Gaudete Brass Quintet, this is not...

Hey y'all! (I grew up in Arkansas, I have license to say "y'all") The Texas Music Educators Association convention is 11 days away! This year, I'll be giving a clinic with composer Alex Shapiro, and conductors Robert Sloan and Miller Asbill covering technology and music education - everything from our pieces that use electronics (and how that works), to technology in the classroom/rehearsal...

It's finally here! My piece The Machine Awakes for youth band / orchestra with live electronics now has an iOS app you can run the electronics from! All you need is to plug it into your PA system (don't forget the required [LOUD] monitor for the conductor), and someone to press the buttons on the iDevice, and you're good to go. This app is for both the band and orchestra versions of the work....

The annual Midwest Clinic in Chicago is almost here, and I'm very fortunate to have three performances of my work this year, as well as giving my Midwest debut as a clinician with two clinics! If you'll be there, I hope you're able to come to one or all of these, and please say "hello" if you do! Here's the list: CLINICS: WED. 12/18, 2:30 p.m.: I will participate in a clinic with composer...

The guest residency season erupts this coming week, when I travel to the University of Missouri to work with their Wind Symphony and coach their well-known New Music Ensemble. Concert is Monday night, 9/30, and it's free!! The Wind Symphony is performing my Anthem and Ecstatic Fanfare, so if you have a hankering for some of the brighter, shinier music in my catalog, come to the Missouri...

I'm the "TBA 2013 Featured Composer" this week at the convention in San Antonio, TX, and having a great time! The Greater Dallas Youth Orchestras Wind Ensemble gave a fantastic performance of "Suite Dreams" yesterday, and this afternoon the Cedar Park Winds are about to open their concert with "", and tonight, the USAF Band of the West will perform "Wings That Work". Finally, I'll give a clinic...

We're moving (new house, still in Durham!), and while cleaning out my studio, I found the original scores for the Bowling Green premiere, the three UT Austin performances (including at the Meyerson and at CBDNA), and the one we used for the WASBE 2009 performance by the University of North Texas. I also found a pristine copy of version 1.0 from April 3rd, 2009 (which is actually later than the...

It's only three weeks until I'm in Chicago for the 2012 Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic! I haven't been to Midwest since 2009, so I'm particularly excited return this year and see everyone's haggard-drank-too-much-last-night-8am-concert-music-soaked visages! I'm fortunate and honored to have four performances this year, including the USAF Band performing two movements of my Concerto for Wind...

Last week, Kevin Geraldi and the UNCG Symphonic Band were kind enough to devote some time on a rehearsal to reading and recording The Machine Awakes for me, so now you have something other than the MIDI realization to listen to! Composers: I'm leaving the original MIDI version posted in hopes this will make for an instructive comparison between MIDI and real players, and makes for a nice...