This composition is my entry in Soundiron's 25 Days of Composing competition. All the sounds you hear are from Soundiron's free Desk Bell instrument, which is built from samples of a classic "Ring Bell for Service" kind of bell. 

The mood of the season: joy mixed with urgency, celebration alongside frantic activity.

PS: Listen to the other contest entries (https://soundcloud.com/soundiron/sets/25-days-of-composing) -- people have applied a lot of skill and creativity to this composing challenging, with fun and interesting results!

Ding Ding Ding!

In this fun little song, painters and graphic designers help rescue the world from the grim monochromatic reign of the Space Crabs. The musical arrangement harkens back to my earlier solo albums, with a dense blend of grand piano, accordion, and cellos. This is one of the 14 songs that I wrote for fawm.org's February 2014 songwriting challenge. 

Hieronymus Bosch

This song owes a bit to 80s new wave dance music. It's my first recording that uses vocoder, a vintage synth-voice sound that I love. This is one of the 14 songs that I wrote for fawm.org's February 2014 songwriting challenge. 

Strange Exhaust

A humorous song by Paul Nordquist, performed by Amy Guskin. You have to admire the Supreme Court for taking the no-win "Pledge of Allegiance" case. The phrase "under God," inserted into the pledge in the 1950s, promotes a specific religious viewpoint, a clear-cut violation of the Constitution. Yet polls show that there will be a public uproar if that brief acknowledgement of the divine is removed from the daily routine of millions of school children. Should the justices leave it in and somehow fudge the law to make it fit, or should they take it out and face the backlash? Actually, there's a third choice, as we explain in this archived Zong of the Week, originally published at zongoftheweek.com on March 28, 2004.

One Nation Under the Goddess

Amy Guskin

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