We cannot expect a second Bach to appear as a composer freely publishing all his works on the Internet. Nevertheless, there are some with a sufficiently futile and obsessive approach to things, who will try to find the best of what there is to be found. I am one of them. Here are a few sources of horror and delectation for you:
Tristan Perich (http://www.tristanperich.com/):
Perich is much more minimalist than the current Glass; his works will remind you more of "Einstein" than of "Akhnaten". His works can be annoying in their reductiveness, but partly this is due to the fact that he doesn't have the Philip Glass ensemble to perform his works with MIDI precision. Sample "By Beauty and Fear" and "Rotary". Sadly, it seems that Perich has recently become enough esteemed that he no longer allows free downloading of all his works.
David Toub (http://homepage.mac.com/dtoub/dbtmusic.html):
Even more so. He has none of Perich's lyricism and seems a whole-hearted paleo-minimalist. The desperately obsessive may tolerate a few minutes of "piece #3 for electronic organ".
Galen H. Brown (http://www.galenbrown.com/music.htm)
is more interesting than either of the above, but more difficult to listen to than Perich (all might not agree). "Distance over Time" is quite an interesting work structurally, although it is not to be expected that it be as directly aimed at the solar plexus as Glass.
Kurt Mortenson (http://kurtmortensen.org/compositions_chron.html) is far more of a traditionalist and tends to use medievalisms. Pleasant background, and can be quite intricate, but lacks the structural integrity of greater composers.
Frederik Magle (http://www.magle.dk/music-mp3-downloads.html) is a Danish composer of a very "classical" kind and apparently of a higher status than for example Perich or Toub. The scoring is far richer and the way he alters the direction of the music is rather interesting.
Kyle Gann (http://www.kylegann.com/Gannaudio.html) is another more performed composer who uses microtonality in a subtle rather than a blatantly experimental way. His works vary enormously in quality; the "Trancendental Sonnets" is the richest and perhaps the best work. "So Many Little Dyings" is not very good musically but exudes a vaguely disturbing salad-fingers air which might be congenial to some.
hey there. hurrah for google alerts. thank you for mentioning my music. when i recently redid my site, i didn't have time to make a proper download script for the recordings (where it actually downloads and doesn't simply play in the browser), but you reminded me how important it is to offer, so i threw back up a crude version again. back in business. take care.
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