Horizon

Extraction Point

"Distant Lost Worlds" is a hauntingly beautiful instrumental track infused with the subtle presence of female vocals.

Distant Lost Worlds (Ethereal Film Score)

Music and mix Guiville.
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Never Sunday

iTunes

Never Sunday - Instrumental

Bruce MacLeod: Guitar, Bass, Synth.
Jimmy Hobson: Drums
  
The pump don't work cause the vandals took the handle...

Subterranean Homesick Blues (Dylan Cover)

Buddha

The title track for my upcoming album "Civilization Soundscape," which is featured in the epic teaser trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwwH8h91FUU

Artifex (noun - Latin): practitioner of an art, craftsman, creator

This track acts as a small case study, epitomizing both my sound and what I try to achieve with my music. I start with a blank canvas and employ the simplest of motifs, a pulse on a single tone. With each subsequent layer I try to add intrigue and detail, giving a direction to the piece and painting a picture for the listener. Each layer is treated analogously to how an engineer would make use of a fundamental principle in their trade, ultimately arriving at something comprised of much greater complexity.  Finally, a simple harmonic structure is introduced, rich and vibrant in tonality, which I attempt to complement through the continued use of driving percussive elements. I intended the final product to feel built from the ground up like a group of architects beginning construction on a monument, only with the brick and mortar and mathematical axioms substituted by sonic motifs.

I hope you enjoy :) please comment with your thoughts and any critiques!

Artifex

Links & Chains for Violin and Marimba
Duration: 5'
Performers: Robin Zeh, violin; Robert Paterson, marimba

Publisher: Bill Holab Music: http://www.billholabmusic.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=103_137&products_id=1210

For more information: https://robertpaterson.com/links-and-chains-six-mallet-version

Four-mallet version also available: https://robertpaterson.com/links-and-chains-four-mallet-version

PROGRAM NOTES

The title of this piece reflects the structure: many parts and motives are linked and looped together, forming chains. There are also missing links throughout the piece, spots where notes have been dropped out and placed in other parts of the piece or else lost entirely. The violin part is designed to be a showy and slightly virtuosic, coupled with a solid, ostinato-like marimba counterpart. Both parts utilize flashy, extended techniques.

Six Mallet Marimba

Links & Chains (Violin and Marimba - Six Mallet Version)

Sonata for Bassoon and Piano
Duration: ca. 15'
Publisher: Bill Holab Music: http://www.billholabmusic.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=103_137&products_id=1302
For More Information: https://robertpaterson.com/sonata-for-bassoon-and-piano

PROGRAM NOTES (SHORT VERSION FOR PROGRAMS) 
When I first began to plan this sonata for bassoon and piano, I had no idea that I would be inspired by something so overtly programmatic, let alone by an American, historical figure who was alive well before I was born. I knew that the premiere would take place at the Thomas Edison Inn in Port Huron, Michigan, and my curiosity eventually took hold and I started reading up on Thomas Edison’s inventions and his life. I was immediately hooked: many of his experiences and beliefs resonated with me. I could not stop thinking about him or his inventions and they ended up providing a Romantic and technical inspiration for this piece.

The first movement, Edison’s Ears, is inspired by a legendary story about the ear problems Edison suffered from throughout his childhood in Port Huron. According to this tale, when he was 15, a train accident further injured his ears. When he tried to jump on the moving train, the conductor grabbed him by his ears to help pull him up. The young Edison said he felt something snap inside his head, and he soon began to lose much of his hearing. The thought of something “snapping inside his head” made me think how, as morbid as this is, inventing something musical from this story might have humored him. The middle of the movement reaches its peak with a loud, staccato “snapping” chord. The beginning of this movement sounds somewhat mechanical and is the first of three locomotive sections (based on three musical quotes) that progressively increase in tempo. The end of the movement gradually descends in register and dies away, much like a hyper-speed, fast-forward toward his eventual and inevitable hearing loss.

The second movement, Mina’s Tapping, draws its inspiration from a story about Edison’s second wife, Mina Miller. The story goes that they were introduced to each other by his life-long friend Ezra Gilliland: “Their courtship ended when Edison tapped out a proposal for marriage on Mina’s hand. In their many years together the pair communicated via Morse code. When attending meetings or at gatherings with friends, Mina would tap out the discussions in Morse code on her deaf husband’s hand. Despite his long hours away from home, Thomas and Mina were totally devoted to each other and profoundly in love.” In this movement, Edison is represented by long melodic lines; Mina is represented by heartbeat-like, pulsed chords derived from the dots, dashes and spaces of Morse code.

Edison is also responsible for creating a revolutionary business model, the world’s first “invention factory.” The final movement,Invention Factory Eureka, is inspired by this, and the one invention that is said to have been Edison’s only true “Eureka!” invention, the cylinder phonograph. The opening motivic material in this movement is derived from the word “Eureka!” The many bright ‘dings’ throughout the middle of the movement represent the cliché of a light bulb appearing above someone’s head when they have a bright idea. This image ties in nicely to Edison, his inventions and his one “eureka” moment.

Cornucopia

Sonata for Bassoon and Piano - III. Invention Factory Eureka

Hello everyone, for this week, I'm currently focusing on improving my techniques and skills on the piano. Please enjoy 🎹

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Beauty and the beast - Piano Cover

Three Day Weekend

Artifex (noun - Latin): practitioner of an art, craftsman, creator
Inspiring greatness through cinematic music.

For me, SoundCloud was a wonderful scratchpad throughout the production of “Dvāram,” a humble reflection of wonder for the breadth of human experience. Check the album out on your favorite streaming platform!

Open to collaboration, commissions, freelance work, and chatting about music :D