Leif Jack Composer

Cruisin’ Alaska Pt.1

Poster for my musical plasma globe project!!! 📸

Check it out to learn more about my project! It’s on the third floor of the music building. 🎶 I’ve deeply enjoyed the project so far, and highly encourage people to consider doing their own music tech project with Dr. Bob!

For the first time in 4 years, I will get to hear a live orchestra play a piece I wrote!!! 😁

I am beyond excited, on March 16th, the VSO will be reading through my piece “Singularity” in a FREE public event, as part of their Jean Coulthard Readings! If you’re free, you should definitely check it out! 🥳

Thank you so much for giving me this opportunity! 🙏 And I can’t wait to hear and pieces, as well as my other colleagues’. Y’all are so talented.

The life of an orchestral score 🎶🎵, in 3 images

I. Conception and Creation
II. Birthing/Printing
III. Graduation/Submission (to orchestra reading sessions)

They grow up so fast 🥺
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New Graphic Score, with open instrumentation! ✅
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The piece is called “A Question of Composition” and is my first ever graphic score! 🖼 It came out of a collaboration between
UBC Composition students, UBC’s Contemporary Players Ensemble, and the Belkin Art Gallery! 🎨

My score is a response to Josèfa Ntjam’s ( ) amazing artwork “Luciferin Drop”, and will be realized by fellow music students 🎶 in the Contemporary Players ensemble in a concert at UBC’s Belkin Art Gallery! The concert will be at Noon on Friday October 29th . See you in two weeks! 🗓

I’ll be sharing more about the piece as we get closer to the concert!🎵

Thank you so much and Contemporary Players for organizing this opportunity! Designing the score was super fun 😁, and I can’t wait to see what the ensemble comes up with!
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On vacation, did some star gazing last night, got inspired, wrote poetry. Simple. ✨⭐️🌟💫

Being surrounded by the night and trees with no polluting city light reminded me of how much of a vibe quiet summer nights are. Not too mention the night sky with its glorious jewels…🌌

10/10 would recommend any 10hr nighttime ambience ASMR (Isochronic convergence tones, 433 Hz) videos

My new piece “Rekindle the Fire” is premiering on YouTube right now! Link in bio. The link will take you to my website, then scroll down and you will see the link to the YouTube video! Played by the wonderful Jack Campbell!

I’m so excited!!!

Two big things!

1. UBC’s Chan Centre for the Performing Arts ( ) just posted a video recording of my brass quintet “Danza Hispano”! 🎺🎉🎉. The people who made the video did an amazing job, and bravissimo and thank you to the wonderful musicians playing it!!!! Andrea Norman, Ray Wu,
You can find the video on the Chan Centre website…OR ON MY NEW WEBSITE ✨✨✨

2. My personal website is finally ready and presentable!!! 🎉 Link in bio!
Visit my website to learn about upcoming events I’m involved in, my recent music, bio, or to contact me. I’ll be regularly updating my website with new events, music recordings, links to sheet music, and photos! 📷

Two big things!

1. UBC’s Chan Centre for the Performing Arts ( ) just posted a video recording of my brass quintet “Danza Hispano”! 🎺🎉🎉. The people who made the video did an amazing job, and bravissimo and thank you to the wonderful musicians playing it!!!! Andrea Norman, Ray Wu,
You can find the video on the Chan Centre website…OR ON MY NEW WEBSITE ✨✨✨

2. My personal website is finally ready and presentable!!! 🎉 Link in bio!
Visit my website to learn about upcoming events I’m involved in, my recent music, bio, or to contact me. I’ll be regularly updating my website with new events, music recordings, links to sheet music, and photos! 📷

It’s an arduous process, and I’ve been putting it off a bit, but I am halfway done creating my official website! 🎉🎉🎉

Besides doing some minor touch ups, (and having less stock photos 😅) all I need to finish is the homepage, and then add links so people can watch/listen to my music, or buy the sheet music!

I’ll be posting the link on my profile as soon as I’m done, so keep your eyes peeled 👀

Happy Saturday! 😊

Leif Jack Composer updated their website address.

Musings of a COVID-detester, sometimes paraphrasing Shakespeare~~
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In what was to be the magnificent month of March, followed by glorious summer sun, wrought onto this mortal plane instead was a deathly winter of discontent.

Who knew an organism of microscopic proportions could fell the comparatively macroscopic? But beyond this, who knew it could transcend the physical and murder the abstract and immaterial?

Robbed were all, robbed of life, family, friends, community, live music and creativity.

In this winter of discontent, I plunged deep into this dark abyss of death and despair, and while I body remained, my muse lay with wings clipped, and death caressing it, robbed of fellow muses to edify, wonders to gaze, and sounds to hear in the flesh.

Movement I, “Death” was felt, reality gutted to emptiness and simplicity.

Yet, seasons change and winters melt. From the opposing crest of the valley of shadow of death, lay approaching light. This light was not a wash, or tide, but a needle, a precise shot, dispensed from a needle. Contained in the light was hope, a primal force of the sentient. Directly at my soul the shot pierced. I, for too long sunken low in the valley of the shadow of death material and immaterial, felt utterly changed by this shot of hopeful light.

With this shot came Movement II, “Transfiguration”. The hope first a simple bud, then swelling and bursting into bloom. Growing from the rose of hope came the thorns of confidence, which I have in past been afraid to let pierce. And with the rose of hope, was the valley of the shadow of death smoothed in my vision. It was not made plain and level, but lessened. I felt no longer so deep in its now small abyss. I could now see it’s crest, to which I could now walk. From the distance, being closer than ever but still far, I could see and hear that which I value most, a bustling scene of musicians, playing music of all times and places...
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OUT NOW! My EP, “Visions of Purple”, featuring music 🎶 for the violin 🎻 and harpsichord is available to stream 🎧on Spotify, YouTube Music, Amazon and more!🎉🥳🎉 ————————————————————————▪️Excited? Leave a like!
▪️OR tell me down below👇👇👇👇 ▪️Want to hear more? Feel free to follow. ▪️And don’t forget to share the excitement with friends! 📣

1 week to go! My next EP, “Visions of Purple”, featuring music 🎶 for the violin 🎻 and harpsichord will be available to stream 🎧on Spotify, YouTube Music, and more on Tuesday, October 6th! 🎉🎉🎉 Check back regularly for weekly updates and inside looks into my creative process with this piece (this week, how I wrote it)! You can find a preview of the music and sheet music 🎼 in previous posts!————————————————————————▪️Excited? Leave a like!
▪️OR tell me down below👇👇👇👇 ▪️Want to hear more? Feel free to follow. ▪️And don’t forget to share the excitement with friends! 📣

Reflection part three of four, answers the “How?” How did I write this piece? Swipe left to find out more! ————————————————————————Any other “How !” questions about the piece? Tell me in the comments! If you’re excited to hear more about the music and can’t wait to listen to all of it, don’t forget to like, check out my profile for a preview, and share this with friends!————————————————————————

2 weeks to go! My next EP, “Visions of Purple”, featuring music 🎶 for the violin 🎻 and harpsichord will be available to stream 🎧on Spotify, YouTube Music, and more on Tuesday, October 6th! 🎉🎉🎉 Check back regularly for weekly updates and inside looks into my creative process with this piece (this week, how I wrote it)! You can find a preview of the music and sheet music 🎼 in previous posts!————————————————————————▪️Excited? Leave a like!
▪️OR tell me down below👇👇👇👇 ▪️Want to hear more? Feel free to follow. ▪️And don’t forget to share the excitement with friends! 📣

Reflection part two of four, answers the “Why?” Why did I write this piece? Why did I choose the colours purple, violet and magenta as my inspiration? Swipe left to find out more! ———————————————————-—Any other “Why”!questions about the piece? Tell me in the comments! If you’re excited to hear more about the music and can’t wait to listen to all of it, don’t forget to like, check out my profile for a preview, and share this with friends!——————————————————-

3 weeks to go! My next EP, “Visions of Purple”, featuring music 🎶 for the violin 🎻 and harpsichord will be available to stream 🎧on Spotify, YouTube Music, and more on Tuesday, October 6th! 🎉🎉🎉 Check back regularly for weekly updates and inside looks into my creative process with this piece! You can find a preview of the music and sheet music 🎼 in previous posts!————————————————————————▪️Excited? Leave a like!
▪️OR tell me down below👇👇👇👇 ▪️Want to hear more? Feel free to follow. ▪️And don’t forget to share the excitement with friends! 📣

To get everyone excited about my upcoming music, I thought I would post a bit about the piece. This first part of four, answers the “What?” What instruments will you hear? What are the ones featured? But also, what genre is the music?—————————————I’d love to hear what the colours Purple, Magenta, and Violet mean TO YOU down in the comments! If you’re excited to hear more about the music and can’t wait to listen to all of it, don’t forget to like and check out my profile for previews!—————————————

It’s official...
My next EP, “Visions of Purple”, featuring music 🎶 for the violin 🎻 and harpsichord will be available to stream 🎧on Spotify, YouTube Music, and more on Tuesday, October 6th! 🎉🎉🎉 Check back regularly for weekly updates and inside looks into my creative process with this piece! You can find a preview of the music and sheet music 🎼 in previous posts!—————————————Excited? Leave a like! OR tell me down below 👇 Want to hear more? Feel free to follow me. And don’t forget to share the excitement with friends!

A few nights ago I was again thinking about that amazing metaphor for the truth being a sword. Words turning in my head, trying to keep it consistent and reflect what I believe. After 2 hours of writing and editing, I’ve competed the next part of the metaphor. I’m still amazed and grateful for how well-received it was last time! I appreciated every single like people gave it! Seeing many people enjoyed it last time , I’ve decided to share it this next addition to it. Enjoy, and please tell em what you think!

I was having a wonderful conversation earlier today with a dear friend and they used this superb metaphor. The metaphor touched me, and felt right. But it felt, incomplete. So I expanded upon it, the words gushing from my mind, expanding on every facet and aspect of the this simple, declarative, yet powerful metaphor. I was amazed by my own competence at expanding the metaphor, every word felt true and right, to the best of my ability, a sincere expression of my deepest beliefs. I have pride for what I have written. However, my feelings towards the original metaphor, and the creative result from it, are best described in the words of Frank Herbert, the author of the “Dune” saga: Kull wahad! (I am profoundly stirred!) I was unable to fit everything I wrote into 10 photos, so here is the very last part of my expansion: But with time, people have encountered the sword, studied it, and become acquainted with its previous bearers, capable of distinguishing between a terrible sword and a great one, between a terrible bearer and a great one..........