Scott Farkas

This is a video of a live premiere performance of 'counting piece 1'. The piece was composed by Scott Farkas, and premiered by the magic valley symphony at the College of Southern Idaho on October 13th, 2019. participating in the premiere were the magic valley symphony, several hundred magic valley 4th grade students, their families, and the remainder of the audience that evening. The composition of the piece is focused around a simple game that everyone played some variation of throughout the performance.

This is a recording done at Jack Straw Studios with Brent Jensen (Saxophones and Flute) and Scott Farkas (Percussion)

This is a performance of the College of Southern Idaho percussion ensemble playing "Kpatsa" - a traditional drumming piece from Ghana, West Africa.

This is a recording of a performance called "Chance" in honor of John Cage's centenary at the College of Southern Idaho, given on February First 2013

This is a performance given on February 2nd, 2013 at the College of Southern Idaho in commemoration of John Cage's Centenary

This is a recording of the performance "SONARCHY REVISITED" at the College of Southern Idaho on Wednesday, November 13th 2013 This was the second installment of the "STAGE DOOR SERIES" of concerts at the college. designed to feature fine arts faculty in their professional setting, and raise funds to support fine arts at the college. please visit www.csi.edu/stagedoor for more details. This evening's performance was a tribute to the BoiSea Collective's album release of a session they released with "SONARCHY RADIO". the evening was 1 hour of freely improvised music by a quartet of musicians who had never performed on the same stage before. It featured the sign on and off of "SONARCHY RADIO" as a tribute to the recording being released that day. MUSICIANS: Soprano Saxophone: Brent Jensen Drums: Jared Hallock Guitar and Computer: Krispen Hartung Percussion: Scott Farkas

"Only the chemist can tell, and not always the chemist, What will result from compounding Fluids or solids. And who can tell How men and women will interact On each other, or what children will result? There were Benjamin Pantier and his wife, Good in themselves, but evil toward each other: He oxygen, she hydrogen, Their son, a devastating fire. I Trainor, the druggist, a miser of chemicals, Killed while making an experiment, Lived unwedded."

" I could read every character in Spoon River By the way they treated the matter of letters. There were those who never came to the post office, Unless I met them on the street and told them there was a letter for them They didn't seem to care whether any one ever wrote them or not. Then there were those who haunted the post office for letters, And rarely got a letter. There are two kinds of people; Those who are sufficient to themselves, And those who depend on the outside world, And haunt the post office!

"Back and forth, back and forth, to and from the church, With my Bible under my arm Till I was gray and old; Unwedded, alone in the world, Finding brothers and sisters in the congregation, And children in the church. I know they laughed and thought me queer. I knew of the eagle souls that flew high in the sunlight, Above the spire of the church, and laughed at the church, Disdaining me, not seeing me. But if the high air was sweet to them, sweet was the church to me. It was the vision, vision, vision of the poets Democratized!"

This is the opening bit of music for the incidental music I wrote for a production of "Spoon River Anthology" at Notre Dame College in the Spring of 2011. The titles of all of these correspond to the poems they were constructed with.

This is a piece I wrote for the folks at www.MarketingVP.us it is a fun piece for students aged 12-100 years! It is for 8 snare drums, and takes the form of a fugue. I hope you enjoy it! Special thanks to Mr. Tom Roblee and The College of Wooster percussion ensemble for making this recording possible!

This is a piece for kalimba, Djembe, and Break Drums that I composed for a friend's senior recording project at SUNY Fredonia. It is based on rhythms from Ghana in West Africa.