John Rose Library

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J Rose: Perky Synthes

This is an extended version of Flying Low remixed for a contemporary dance performance featuring middle school children from a local performing arts school.

Flying Low 4

dementia

This track is from the album cosmogenesis and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/jrose. It was recorded from a live performance using various Analog and digital synths processed and played all in real time with no edits.

Cosmogenesis

This is a long piano and synth soundscape great for background, meditation, or relaxing listening. It is a long track, from my piano album Conversing With a Rainy Night.

Conversing With A Rainy Night

Bluebird (For Josephine)

This is an upbeat instrumental soundtrack.

Triumph

This is one of my first compositions. It was recorded on piano sometime in 1976 or 77. It is very historic for me as it is among the first pieces I composed.

Reflecting On The Early Days

This is a heavy rhythmic piece of electronic music, driven by heavy slow moving sequence with a deep ambient foundation.

Heavy Artillery

Rhythmic, driving track of electronic fusion.

Runner

Here is a new track I've been working on of instrumental electronic music.

Licht des Tages

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.

This track features Diane Timmons on vocals, and was a joint composition between Diane and myself. The piece was composed in 1995, and was performed at most Spacecraft performances. It is featured on Spacecraft's album HUMMEL recorded live at the Hummel Planetarium in Richmond KY. I composed this piece as an instrumental, but always heard vocals in it. I heard Diane sing several times, and was determined to have it for this piece. We have not only made music since then, but we have been together since the day I called her to work on this piece. 

De Profundis

1991 cassette only release for synthesizers. Mostly Roland synths used here.

Desert Snow

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)

Raining in Vienna

This is a heavily sequencer oriented piece in classic 70's Berlin School form. It is a live recording from the early 90's and features mostly analogue, or analogue modeled synths. 

Eastern Corridor

In Droplets Of Ice

In droplets of ice

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)