Title track from the CD "Open Doerr". In 2014, I commissioned a guitar built by master luthier Tom Doerr. After receiving the guitar (pictured), I worked through the next year to produce an instrumental CD of original tunes on this guitar as a way to pay tribute to this amazing instrument built with Lucky Strike Redwood and Cocobolo. 
This track is an Mp3 file from that CD. 
Thanks for listening!

Unknown album (4/9/2015 4:58:41 PM)

"OPEN DOERR"

｢変身 ~ FIRST TRANSFORMATION｣

Concept music for a graphic novel.

Music written, produced, performed, mixed and mastered by Thomas O'Higgins Horna.

Cover art: "Sleep and Death, the Children of the Night" (1883) by Evelyn De Morgan. Edited by me.

This track is not to be used to train AI.

TRANSFIGURATION

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1. Loose Bruce
2. It's Your Fuckin' Birthday

2023-04-26: Middle Ages Brewing

A Seed To Grow

originally sung by Jo Stafford . But has been sung by many great artist. I used a kind of Eva Cassidy backing track...  and as always i recommand listening with ear phones for best sound..

Autumn leaves

Track 8 in "Ephéméries" (2023) by Alex M: composed, played, arranged, edited and recorded by Alex M in GarageBand iOS and Logic Pro X on 28-29 March 2021 as acoustic guitar version; all instruments in this extended orchestral version were added, arranged, edited, recorded and mixed on 5 August 2023 in Logic Pro; posted on SoundCloud on 16 August 2023 (before the release of the album as a whole).

The initial acoustic guitar version is here: https://soundcloud.com/alexander-mihailov-96713983/ephemerie-5-acoustic-guitar

And the whole album "Ephéméries" (2023) is here: https://soundcloud.com/alexander-mihailov-96713983/sets/ephemeries

The album artwork cover, also used as the cover of each constituent track, is based on a photo taken on 28 June 2018, then resized and annotated in MacOS Preview by Alex M on 26 January 2019.

The track also has an extended collaborative version, with Roberto B, here: https://soundcloud.com/alexander-mihailov-96713983/ephemerie-5-extended-collaborative-version-roberto-b-alex-m

Duration: 6:48 minutes
Tempo: 112 bpm
Time Signature: 4/4
Key Signature: F minor

Digital instruments used, in the order of playing and recording:

1. Studio Strings - Studio Cellos
2. Studio Horns - 6-Piece Section - Funkhouse
3. Piano - Steinway Grand Piano
4. Synthesizer - Classics - Dreams and Vision
5. Synthesizer - Sound Effects - Shimmering Voice Texture
6. Drum Kit - SoCal 
7. Synthesizer - Pad - Ocean Sun Glitters

Ephémérie 5 (Extended Orchestral)

info: reupload with more prominently placed chimes after 4 plays and 1 external commentary
method: initial recording (subharmonicon through pedals, voice imprint) enhanced by vst instruments
narration: romantic notions of returning to an unspoilt world, not shying away from consulting all kinds of mystic ideas (which usually make good storytelling but, unfortunately, also  bad conspiracy theories) 
image: copyright jo richter

poem / copyright jo richter:

the world before moonrise
pre-tidal, pre-warped
mitwelt und inkreis *
lore hummed and harped

denisovian bloodline
pulsating throughout
trau nicht dem anschein **
imposters stand proud

we still hide and hum
in well-concealed places
laut, aus dem welt kam ***
mothering mazes

a circle, a songline
all surface, no brink
werden ist dasein ****
what rises will sink

* relational environment and inner circle
** do not trust semblances
*** sound, from which the world emanated
**** becoming is being

all surface

The Power of  Sound

Image created by me.
https://www.deviantart.com/leehon/art/Pulchritudinous-Catastrophe-895559735

Puppet's Sorrow

Citare

You Can Have It All

I have always admired music, of diverse styles. Like most of us, I have tried learning to play a few instruments at a basic level in my teenage. But it is only now, in the 21st century, that modern software allows anyone to fool around being the composer, the designer of a whole composition, simpler or more complex, organising together the parts of the various instruments - and to hear the results of this experimentation or inspiration instantly! That is how I have recently begun enjoying the distraction of attempts at composing during my leisure, discovering an amazing dimension of life, and art, perhaps the most intangible, heightening and hypnotising one, and the closest to the soul... (21 August 2017) ... Forgot to mention: music is for sharing - that's why we are all here! (4 September 2017)