From the 2013 film Force by Duct Tape Then Beer - Original score by Amy Stolzenbach

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The Force

Music from the film Frank and the Tower by Duct Tape Then Beer & Semi Rad 2015

Amy Stolzenbach: Music

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The Aura of the Tower

Frank

From the Dirtbag Diaries episode "Paul's Boots"

Paul Walks On

From the Dirtbag Diaries podcast episode "Paul's Boots"

The Life Lived

Main title from the back country ski film from Sweetgrass Productions.

Solitaire (Main Title)

This piece was written in the fall of 2017 at the request of the folks at Industry Nine for a new cycling video to be released in early 2018 featuring their distinctive hub sound. I had heard about bike techs using a tuner to tune wheel spokes so I bought a spoke wrench and tuned four of the spokes on an I-9 demo wheel and whacked it with drum sticks for some of the percussion. I also sampled the hub spinning and clicking for hi-hats and a cabasa sound in one section of the song. The only other request from the client was crazy fast piano and maybe some hip-hop. What you hear is the product of putting all of those elements together. Enjoy!

Invisible Forces

Distant Memories - ambient meditation music set to relaxing immersive visuals (audio available for free within the Insight Timer meditation app (also free!)

As a lifelong musician and a working professional I don't know where I end and music begins most of the time so I crave meditation music that allows me to stay neutral and not lean towards one emotion or another - a place where I can connect to source, heal any old or new wounds and let my emotional and physical body unplug from stress. With that thought in mind, I am sharing some new ambient music and soundscapes with this community in hopes that you can have a similar experience. Enjoy!

Distant Memories

Unencumbered by the Effects of Gravity - ambient meditation music set to relaxing immersive visuals (audio available for free within the Insight Timer meditation app (also free!) and with accompanying video on Vimeo.

As a lifelong musician and a working professional I don't know where I end and music begins most of the time so I crave meditation music that allows me to stay neutral and not lean towards one emotion or another - a place where I can connect to source, heal any old or new wounds and let my emotional and physical body unplug from stress. With that thought in mind, I am sharing some new ambient music and soundscapes with this community in hopes that you can have a similar experience. Enjoy!

I love anything having to do with space, planets, moons, stars, sci-fi books and films - all of it. When I wrote this I wanted to express the feeling of being supported in a the vastness of outer space - a lot like how I feel in the innerspace of meditation. Taking in the gifts of the universe with my senses. Floating and feeling perfectly safe. Grounded yet weightless. The interplay of ambient electric guitars in this mix helps to set the stage. 

Headphones recommended. I hope you find this music soothing and immersive to listen to or for your meditation.

Unencumbered By The Effects Of Gravity

Angels in the Atmosphere - ambient meditation music set to relaxing immersive visuals (audio available for free within the Insight Timer meditation app (also free!)

As a lifelong musician and a working professional I don't know where I end and music begins most of the time so I crave meditation music that allows me to stay neutral and not lean towards one emotion or another - a place where I can connect to source, heal any old or new wounds and let my emotional and physical body unplug from stress. With that thought in mind, I am sharing some new ambient music and soundscapes with this community in hopes that you can have a similar experience. Enjoy!

When I set out to write this collection of music I imagined myself meditating and ascending from this grounded place on earth, through the clouds, into the atmosphere finally achieving weightlessness in outer space. The different pieces of music are dedicated to these different places on that journey. This piece seemed to speak to finding a divine altitude above the earth - no borders on the land like in maps that we see on paper, maybe the sun is rising or setting over the beautiful horizon and we are able to look out and see stars without any distortion from Earth's atmosphere. As a kid, I though maybe this altitude above the earth and clouds was where angels must hang out since everyone would point up towards heaven!

Again, there is a specific collection of notes that were used to promote healing and regeneration. Headphones recommended. I hope you enjoy watching or listening during your meditation.

Angels In The Atmosphere

Vela Pulsar Mbira - ambient meditation music set to relaxing immersive visuals (audio available for free within the Insight Timer meditation app (also free!). 

As a lifelong musician and a working professional I don't know where I end and music begins most of the time so I crave meditation music that allows me to stay neutral and not lean towards one emotion or another - a place where I can connect to source, heal any old or new wounds and let my emotional and physical body unplug from stress. With that thought in mind, I am sharing some new ambient music and soundscapes with this community in hopes that you can have a similar experience. Enjoy!

I am fascinated by our universe so naturally, as a musician, sounds captured outside of our small existence on earth are also fascinating to me. These "sounds" are radio waves or electromagnetic vibrations that are emitted by celestial objects. Large radio telescopes can receive the sound if they are trained on these objects. Remember the book and film, Contact? I found a audio clip online from the Vela Pulsar PSR0833-45, slowed it down to half speed and transcribed part of the rhythm. Since it was percussive in origin, I used samples of an African thumb plucked instrument called an Mbira to play the rhythm and I chose a set of specific notes that I felt delivered a feeling of calm - sort of like a rhythmic windchime. At first, I thought this music would be too "active" for meditation but it quickly mesmerized me and I couldn't press stop - it turned out to be one of my favorite pieces! Headphones recommended. I hope you find this music soothing and immersive for your meditation.

Again, there is a specific collection of notes that were used to promote healing and regeneration. Headphones recommended. I hope you enjoy watching or listening during your meditation.

Vela Pulsar Mbira

 Original score from the film Last of the Great Unknown

OCD Approach

Part 1 of a series of short pieces inspired by photos. I took this shot straight up a building in downtown San Francisco. 

Amy Stolzenbach

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