Will Unkefer is a Phoenix based composer and musician. He can be found around town playing bass, guitar, and singing. He studied composition in college in San Diego, where he also had the opportunity to study bass with Bob Magnusson. Will enjoys playing a wide variety of music and is always looking for new people to play with. He lives with his wife, Laura, and their dogs Dill and Rey. He is currently the bass player for Daphne + the Glitches.
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when we were full of ourselves
back when we met, under our breath at the piano, who knew we’d be brothers back when we met, you at the piano, fugues in your hands, who knew? i thought you were full of yourselves. who knew i was too full of fire, full of emptiness—flames with nothing to burn, i consumed myself. there […]
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Lend Me Your Ears
Golly, gee, oh woah was me, before I found your pages. You wrote a love story with yourself and it’s one for the ages. This light of mine brought it in time, when I needed it most. You saved me from just killing time–from living as a ghost
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Announcement of Intent to Announce
Hello and welcome to this post. I wanted to share that I am in the natal stages of recording my first solo album, which, being me, has already lead to ideas for future projects as well. The working title for the project is, “Songs for my Friends,” and I wanted to write a little bit […]
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Bill Mershon Sings
A few years ago I acquired a collection of records my great grandfather recorded in Phoenix in the 50s and 60s. I have been recovering what I could, trying to clean up some of the fuzz and static on the old records. This album is the first release I’ve assembled from that collection. There are […]
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The Future of Art Music
The notation of musical instructions for performance has existed for thousands of years, going back to cuneiform tablets in Sumer. I cannot tell you how that ancient composer’s work was intended to be interpreted, nor how those performing it approached these instructions, but we still understand this concept today. Performers rehearse to convert the composer’s […]