EMDR (eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing) also referred to as bilateral stimulation is a form of psychotherapy used to treat PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder), a condition commonly found in combat survivors, survivors of violent crimes, persons suffering childhood trauma, victims of disasters, and accidents, as well as a plethora of other circumstances whereby a person is mentally scarred by a traumatic life event. 

There are numerous techniques used with tremendous success. Some use a buzzer held in each hand vibrating alternately left to right. Other techniques involve a light flashing left to right. A self induced technique involves crossing your hands, resting them on the shoulders, and then tapping each shoulder alternately. The following technique uses a low tone pulsing left to right with accompanying music. This technique is most effective through headphones for stereo separation. 

While undergoing this process, the subject revisits the traumatic event mentally allowing the alternate sound pulses induce their effect. The process simulates a bio mechanism similar to REM (rapid eye movement), a naturally occurring phenomenon associated with the dream state while sleeping. Revisiting the traumatic event in the mind during EMDR therapy allows the mind to internally, and naturally heal itself. The mind in its natural state is a self healing entity under the right conditions. EMDR assists the healing process without the need for medication or talk therapy.

Focusing on the traumatic event and then replacing them with positive actions and feelings while undergoing EMDR treatment has shown remarkable results in as few a three sessions. Following the session, the subject allows the mind to go blank, and whatever feelings and thoughts are noticed, and put into action. It is important to journal this process making note of the trauma at hand, and the positive, healthy resulting state. 

during a traumatic event, the body naturally responds with eye movement left to right in rapid succession leaving the person traumatised, reopening those wounds every time the event replays in the mind. By recreating the bodies natural mechanisms through revisiting the trauma, the process of replacing the trauma with a healthy response allows one to separate themselves emotionally from the event and view it in a detached state calmly without negative attachments. 

Although experts don’t know exactly why EMDR is so effective, statistics show it to be a highly effective therapy. Further exploration and research into the uncharted wilderness of the mind will likely reveal with clarity why this treatment is so effective. 

Hopefully this recording will at the very least, provide another tool in the healing process, and may be a powerful step toward recovery.

Emdr Meditation

EMDR Meditation

This is classic Berlin School electronica ala Tangerine Dream and other 70's era electronic music reminiscent of the movie soundtrack from Sorcerer.

Into The Darkness

I wrote this piece in memory of two great mentors in my life, both of whom died within a week of one another. It is an instrumental electronic piece.

Final Flight

This is a classic Berlin School style piece with intricate sequencer work and a Fender Rhodes piano lead.

Transit

This is a complete reworking of this piece, and I am pleased to repost it here.

Madrid Express

A solo piano nocturne in a modern classical style.

Nocturne 1995

This is a live radio performance for NPR station WUKY around 1994. I am featured with remy Simpson, and Charles Ellis.

Fall 94 WUKY Fundraiser Live Performance

This is one of my first compositions from around 1975 when I was 15 years old. I had probably been playing for at least a couple of months when I wrote this, so please forgive the tinges of adolescence in this piece. It is a solo piano piece recorded with a very inexpensive portable cassette recorder.

Memories Of A Gentler Time

This is an extreme lofi recording of one of my first piano recordings from around 1975. Although rough, this is a very historic recording for me and reflects who I am today as a composer.

Remembering

This is a track from my band Spacecraft's album Earthtime Tapestry. This piece was featured in the film Vanilla Sky

Earthtime Tapestry

A simple piano piece thinking back on easier times,

Easier Days

Here is another live electronic track from around 2002. This is from an afternoon Lunch With the Arts concert in Lexington, KY.

The Birth Of A Galaxy

This is a simple little meditation track.

The Grass Is Growing Greener

This track features the appalachian mountain dulcimer. It is a very old stringed instrument indigenous to my home region.

Summer Day Revisited

This is a heavy rhythmic track of Berlin School Electronic music.

Tension In The Sky

This is a slow ambient piece with a weighty slow sequence carrying an aethereal pad on top.

The grind2

Here is the 2nd edit of this piece. Still a long way to go, but getting there.

Weltschmertz 2nd Edit

Just Passing Thru Town

I Look Down And See No Footprints

Here is a rough, Raw mix of a set I created and played last week at NEEM Fest in Homer NY.

NEEM Solo Session  1.0

This is an abstract, experimental soundscape featuring a mix of synthesis and found acoustic sounds from a found piano.

Dreaming Through It

A slow plodding soundtrack for a lonesome desert drive.

Desert Highway 3AM

This is a long meditative track good for drifting through your mind.

Through The Eyes Of The Soul

This is a slow spacey ambient piano piece.

Endless

Ice Chrystals in the Moonlight

Frozen Sand

Driving West

This is a first draft of another  movement of my American Requiem. These are rough ideas, and in no way complete.

American Requiem 2.0

This is a trance like piece of Electronica in a classic Berlin School style

Fields of Blue

This is just a quick musical idea. Kinda fits the mood of the day.

The Cold Lot

This is a multilayered piece of electronic music 

Looking Ahead To Brighter Days

This is a quirky piece of electronica with an atonal modern piano piece hidden within.

Charmer

This piece has just enough analogue instability to deepen its character. 

Meandering

This is a trancelike meloncholic piece with hints of early Mike Oldfield and Cusco elements among others. It is as of yet to be determined whether it is finished or not.

Running

This is a rhythmic, LoFi piece of electronic music. The music while simple incorporates complex layers of raw, gritty sounds. The piece is inspired by nature, and brought to life with pure electronics.

Distorted Time

This is a slow, melancholy piano composition. Great soundtrack for a chilly moonlit night.

By the Light of the Moon

Berlin School electronic piece creating in the space of long nights of driving on open road.

gminor project in progress

This is a completely reworked track from an upcoming solo album in progress. The vocal reading is a poem written some 60 years ago by my now deceased brother-in-law Richard Rose, (Our last names are the same by coincidence only) who is regarded throughout the world for his straightforward, and profound wisdom, and philosophy. known as the Albigen System.

Shadows

This is a solo piano piece I composed around 1990. The title directly describes its inspiration. It was recorded on a beautiful Hamburg Steinway grand piano.

Vienna

Dark, loFi, Spaghetti Western Ambient, this piece written for a dear friend who rode off into the sunset way too soon.

He Rides The Wind To Heaven (final)

John Rose is a composer working out of Lexington, Kentucky. John has worked for many years doing live radio, outdoor festivals, art openings and planetarium performances. John has been a pioneer of electronic music in Kentucky since the 1970s. He continues to work on solo recordings, and is a sound tech and stage hand. He recently started recording and producing music for other people. John also loves to teach wilderness survival and awareness and has been doing so at camps and workshops around Kentucky and Tennessee.

John Rose’s music is created primarily from his own experiences, what he calls “life’s soundtracks”. He utilizes elements from his diverse musical background, which includes early music (especially the Medieval and pre-Renaissance era), Baroque (owing to his direct musical lineage to J.S. Bach through oral teaching tradition), Middle Eastern Music, Gregorian chant, traditional Celtic and Appalachian music, and experimental electronic music.

Music and musicians who are of interest to John Rose are J.S. Bach, Arvo Part, Tangerine Dream, Dead Can Dance, Gregorian chant, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Alan Stivell, Morton Subotonic, John Jacob Niles, Debussy, and Chopin. He considers Nature and Silence to be the foundation of all music.

John’s music is timeless and pensive, interwoven with images of nature, expressive rhythms, deep space pulses, and industrial ambience. Other compositions contain intricate piano passages dancing across waves of geometric ostinatos.

“Music is structured in silence and has its foundations in the rhythm of nature, out of which springs the language of humanity and reflections of the energy of life. I wish to express this to the listener through my music.”

JOHN ROSE SOLO DISCOGRAPHY (cassette format):

Evening Thoughts (90min)
I Could See Them In The Distance (60min)
Rainsongs--also available on LP
Oceans of Contradiction (90min)
Reflections (90min)
Chemical Dreams (90min)
Night Songs (90min)
Meditations (90min)
Zeitreisen (90min)

The Natural World (90min), a recording of live music from the woodland art fair in lexington
Diane Timmons Live at ArtsPlace in Lexington.

CD Format

Cosmogenesis  April, 2001 on SpaceForMusic.com Records
Conversing With A Rainy Night 2004
Unsound 2023


with Tony Gerber
2001 - Airwaves (Electronic Instrumental, Released in January 2000 on MP3.com)

with SPACECRAFT
1997 - Spacecraft: "Spacecraft" (Lektronic Soundscapes LS97009 CD)
1998 - Spacecraft: "Hummel: Live" (Lektronic Soundscapes LS-1012 CD)
1999 - Spacecraft: "Earthtime Tapestry" w/Giles Reaves (released August 4th, 1999 on Lektronic Soundscapes)
1999 - Spacecraft: "Kaleida Dreams" w/Giles Reaves (released November 25th, 1999 on SFM Collective at MP3.com)
2000 - Spacecraft: "20th Century Mix (Best of)" (released January 12th, 2000 on SFM Collective at MP3.com)
2001 - Spacecraft: "Musical Meditation for World Peace" (released January 1st, 2001 on SpaceForMusic.com Records via mp3.com)
2001 - Spacecraft: "Summer Town" (release Feb. 15th on SpaceForMusic.com Records SFM12001)
2001 - Spacecraft: "Cybersphere" (released May 19th on SpaceForMusic.com Records SFM22001)

John Rose

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