Rizwerks Music • Photography • Poetry
About
Based in los angeles and currently roaming the california coast and deserts performing music, collecting musical instruments, photographing and filming the pacific ocean and the sun in the sky and planning cheap, sensible meals.
Americana Roots Music
repertoire consists of early blues, jug band tunes, gospel music classics, instrumental stomps, romps, jumps, and rags, early country music, early jazz, tin pan alley tunes, folk songs and novelty songs, with the additional insertion of themes and motifs from sousa marches, european classical music composers, musical theater and film music blending freely in original compositions and improvisations.
Classical
Seven Trios for Flute, Piano, and Viola
String Quartets No. 1-10
40 Days in the Desert for Flute and Percussion
40 Days on the River for Oboe and Percussion
Music for Imaginary Strings
Music for Imaginary Woodwind
Music for Imaginary Choir
Music for Imaginary Marimba
64 Petite Symphonies composed in a unique form of seven movements:
1st: Woodwinds
2nd and 3rd: Strings
4th: Marimba
5th and 6th: Strings
7th: Woodwinds (Reprise)
Electronic music:
Virtuoso Psychedelic Electric Guitar Geek Out
96 pieces for processed guitar with
• DigiTech GSP 2012 studio tube preamp processor
• Moogerfooger with Moog Music Inc. expression pedal
• johnson J12 foot controller
• variax guitar
Sonatas for Keyboard and Electronics (SKE)
31 pieces for live keyboard improvisations with moog and digitech processors
Music for Imaginary Choir
non-multi-tracked one-take contrapuntal keyboard improvisations
using soprano voice samples
Cheerful Citizen
electronic dance music
Riz Jazz
jazz piano trio
reggae jazz guitar
jazz guitar trio
new 70 jazz cascades:
jazz compositions in extended meters
music for solo piano
music for solo acoustic guitar
Spoken Word/Radio Drama
Intrigue: Surreal Radio Spy Drama in Twelve Parts
Jim’s Arockalypse Desert Highway Adventure
Photography
“Seeing With The Heart”
Music
“The Meaning Is In The Making Of The Music”