SONG - WORDS & MUSIC © 2008 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

This song has an accompanying video, found HERE

SONG - WORDS & MUSIC © 2007 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

SONG - WORDS & MUSIC © 2007 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Written with Phoebe Stubblefield

Phoebe Stubblefield, vocals

FINALIST - SPEAK NEW WORDS COMPETITON 2007

SONG - WORDS & MUSIC © 2007 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

This song has an accompanying music video, found HERE.

SONG - WORDS & MUSIC © 2008 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

This was written for a short film I scored for students at the University of Westminster in London, England during June , 2008, entitled Oakwood. It is intended to imitate the classic pop-rock sounds of the 1980s. Watch a scene from Oakwood right off my "Videos" page!

COMPOSITION - MUSIC © 2008 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

This electro-acoustic piece was originally composed to accompany dancers. It was originally performed in May, 2008 with the UNCG dance department. The dance was choreographed by Cherice Mangiagalli. This version has been abbreviated, and was performed at the 2008 Collage Concert at Aycock Auditorium, UNCG on September 6th at 7:30 pm. The piece was performed with live djembe drum accompanied by CD.

COMPOSITION - © 2007 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

From the program notes...

Nick Stubblefield's chamber piece "One Nation" utilizes unconventional instrumentation to evoke both the magnitude of consequence and the intimacy of experience implied by a people's existence. The music moves along a planetary timeline that is colored with history without becoming locus-specific. The nation we experience in the piece may well be our own, with periods of conflict, discord, triumph, failure, resolution... its peaceful stretches always tinged with some underlying knowledge manifesting a degree of discomfort, some foreshadowing of the inevitability of strife. Ultimately, Stubblefield's contemplation, rendered through several themes, describes the meshing, the inseparability of the nature of humanity with mankind's political history.

Premiered on 3/18/2008, 7:30 PM, UNCG ORGAN HALL

NOTE: THIS RECORDING WAS RENDERED THROUGH MIDI DEVICES

"Orphans"

"Teacher"

"Senioritis"

COMPOSITION - © 2006 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

This 3-part suite of pieces were composed in loving memory of the late Deborah Sizemore, a music teacher and inspiration to Stubblefield and countless others. These recordings were rendered electronically.

From the liner notes...

The first movement, Orphans, evokes the
instruments, cadences and intervals probably
most remembered by Ms Sizemore students:
those of the Orff Ensemble. The teacher herself is
represented in her role as the keeper of the beat
and setter of tempo with the cabasa, and the
marimbas strongly suggest other Orff instruments.
Nick personalizes the movement intensely,
remembering his time in the ensemble and extrapolating lavishly, plunging forward into fantasy from the first few bars.

The second movement, Teacher, emphasizes the very human, and therefore unreasonable argument between (joy) major and (grief) minor modes. From the irony and insoluble pondering emerges the flute, as sage, ascending like the teacher's spirit, eternal and undefeated, a presence as human and as universal as music itself.

The third movement, Senioritis, comments on the fleeting nature of childhood, the tangle of emotions experienced in leaving the security of K-12 and home. Nick, as a recent high school graduate, here contemplates the memories, the regret, the loss, the anticipation, the insecurity, and the strange mixture of choice and inevitability.