John Rose Library

This is a meditative vignette for Cello,Synth, and nature sounds. It is a very somber and melancholy work, but has hints of sweetness woven throughout.

Sunset

This is a rough mix of a much larger project. It is a soundtrack piece, very dark and ominous. Would fit a scene of an approaching battle. Very urgent and powerfully dark.

Lost Signals

This piece falls into the life soundtrack category and is a classical piano composition. It is good for meditation, contemplation, destressing, etc. It is in essence, a tone poem.

Klavierwerke Band 1.1

Here is a quick rendition of a short Bach prelude in c minor.

Bach C

Here is my synth rendition of JS Bach's Prelude in e minor BWV938

Bach Prelude In E BWV 938

This is a remix of a shorter version. It is a slow meditative trance, chill piece of space ambient music.

Trance 1.1

This is a very dark experimental soundscape incorporating elements of granular synthesis among other elements. It is very much a soundtrack of the mind.

Drifting In Frozen Time

This is a very deep space ambient piece, very minimal in nature, great for meditation, star gazing, and looking deeply into oneself.

Eclipse

From the depths of my being, I write this song for you Julie.

Song For Julie

This is a slowly evolving, trance,downtempo piece of electronic music with a heavy Berlin School vibe.

Trance 1.2

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 a glitchy rhythmic piece written for a closing portion of a movie. It is upbeat, and jazzy with a strongpiano presence.

Flash Ahead

FOR THIS RECORDING TO BE EFFECTIVE PLEASE LISTEN THROUGH HEADPHONES!!!

EMDR (eye movement desensitization 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, are 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 traumatized, reopening those wounds every time the event replays in the mind. By recreating the body’s 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 Autopan

This is a simple piano piece in a minor that is classical in style, and well suited for a soundtrack piece

Fragments Of Moonlight

This is my rendition of Herzliebster Jesu, was hast du verbrochen composed by Helmut Walcha. It is dedicated to my music teacher and mentor E.Eugene Maupin, a student of Walcha during the second world war. Helmut Walcha was one of the most influential organists of the twentieth century. A native of Leipzig, Germany, son of a postal worker, he grew up in a musical environment where he heard the cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach performed weekly at the Thomaskirche, conducted by Thomas Kantor Karl Straube.

Herzliebster Jesu,was Hast Du Verbrochen

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

- Building Courage

This is a mysterious Berlin School ala Sorcerer era Tangerine Dream.

Berliner Nacht

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)