Music
By Steve Forman

• TV cues
• Film cues
• Compositions for Dance
• Instrumental Solos
• Ensemble Works
• Conceptual, and Text works
Percussion Music forTelevison
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Percussion Beds for TV cues for "Buffy the Vampre Slayer"- Composer: Chris Beck:.
Buffy..#1
Buffy..#2
Buffy..#3
Hard to define this complex chase cue,
it's kind of a S.E .Asian Nightmare March..
...or something.. Chase4...
More TV stuff- odd cues from the Survivor series
Maha...
Percussion Music for Motion Pictures
Spooky movie stuff. This from the film "Breakdown":.
"Don't Turn Around...".
Here's just the percussion track for a cue from the movie "Jeremiah" scored by Bruce Broughton:.
"Jeremiah"
Music for Dance Performances

"Chandleiers":
Music modled the glass sculptures of Dale Chuihuly
1- "Glass"
2- "Water"
3- "Fire"
4- "Light "

"Tarantula" An excerpt from "A Little Wilderness",
a suite for young dancers:.
"Outside In", one of two collaborations with choreographer Alison Rootberg in 2006. While This work is completly assembled in Digital Performer and Pro-tools all the sounds are organic, sampled and programmed specifically for this piece. A lot of signal bending here.. Also with Alison Rootberg: "I Love You! - Goodbye!", a major performance piece for dance utilizing live musician/dancers, pre-recorded elements and video. The entire work is over forty minutes- this is a 5 minute promo with excerpts from many of the scenes.
Music for Solo Instruments
"Still Life", 2006 for unaccompanied Harp "Too Much House" 2005, unaccompanied Tuba
"Mostly Moon Dust" 2007 For solo Percussion
Commissioned and premiered Nick Terry
"The woman who lived here
planted a garden of promises
that bloomed and quietly died.
Nobody lives here anymore.
Time and rain have overrun
the careful beds and trellises
which hope and ancient roses
used to climb. For all I know
flagstone pathways still meander
beneath the overgrowth, but
what you see today is mostly
moon dust. An anarchy
of invertebrate scavengers
absconded with the best
of her intentions
some time ago."
"Franz Boas in Brooklyn" for Solo 'Cello
Paddy Johnson, Glasgow 2007 (1st performance)
Franz Boas (1858-1942), regarded as the "Father of Cultural Anthropology", had by 1895 unsettled  prevalent assumptions of European “armchair anthropologists” insisting that conclusions  be drawn from actual field studies rather that theological predispositions. Boas spent 41 years as the first Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University and Curator of Ethnology and Somatology at the American Museum of Natural History, presenting electrifying lectures and revelations based on his own field work among the Northwest Coastal America Indians, inspiring many students who would go on to create cultural conflagrations of their own. These included Margaret Mead who set out in 1925 to do her sensational research in Polynesia, and Nora Thurston Zeale who became key a figure in the Harlem Renaissance, along with poet and playwright Langston Hughes. When Hughes met Zeale she was enrolled at Columbia and working for Boas in Brooklyn and Harlem, stopping startled pedestrians to measure their skulls with a huge pair of calipers.
This ‘cello piece stems from my imagining Franz Boas and Nora Thurston Zeale rampaging around New York in the fervor of the 20’s, applying the principals of cultural relativism to their own society, doing the field work in their own backyard.
Music for Ensembles
"Up So Ringing" 2005, for Woodwinds and Cello
Unapologetically tonal, this nostalgic music is inspired by the Saturday Evening Post covers of Norman Rockwell, and the E.E. Cummings poem "anyone lived in a pretty how town"

Nora Thurston Zeale
Franz Boas
"Three Chances, Part One" for four Percussionits 2005
This quartet was selected for performance on the Music Now concert of the Indiana State University Contemporary Music Festival, November 10, 2005, 3pm.

anyone lived in a pretty how town
e.e. cummings

anyone lived in a pretty how town
(with up so floating many bells down)
spring summer autumn winter
he sang his didn't he danced his did

Women and men(both little and small)
cared for anyone not at all
they sowed their isn't they reaped their same
sun moon stars rain

children guessed(but only a few
and down they forgot as up they grew
autumn winter spring summer)
that noone loved him more by more

when by now and tree by leaf
she laughed his joy she cried his grief
bird by snow and stir by still
anyone's any was all to her

someones married their everyones
laughed their cryings and did their dance
(sleep wake hope and then)they
said their nevers they slept their dream

stars rain sun moon
(and only the snow can begin to explain
how children are apt to forget to remember
with up so floating many bells down)

one day anyone died i guess
(and noone stooped to kiss his face)
busy folk buried them side by side
little by little and was by was

all by all and deep by deep
and more by more they dream their sleep
noone and anyone earth by april
wish by spirit and if by yes.

Women and men(both dong and ding)
summer autumn winter spring
reaped their sowing and went their came
sun moon stars rain
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