Boring Music (I)
String Octet

Matthew Lee Knowles
June-July 2025

FULL SCORE VIDEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpP8hqivmgE

Boring Music

No relation to the Taylor Swift song.

Last year I fell in love with someone who'd been a good friend (or so I thought) up to that point. This turned out to be a mistake and ultimately a bitter experience. It's rare for me to write music "about" anything in particular, but this composition was written around the time that everything happened with this person and is very linked to the emotions I was going through at the time. 

Movement 1 was written when I was in the thick of feeling head over heels for this person, though even then there was some frantic agitation I was feeling (a sign of things to come). PSA, love shouldn't feel like that as it turns out?

"Love Story"  Piano Quintet - Movement 1

Love Light

A Country and Western version of a song i wrote a while ago. A funny sort of a song with a lovely story :-) Some people may be able to associate with the sentiment in this song . 
Hope you liker it. 

Johnny

A note and a Key

I Won't Play Another Lick Until I Get A Whiskey

this is a quickie I put together after a conversation with a mate ……….peace, and cheers for having a listen

Who I Am

is it a dog or a cat maybe a mouse could be a rat
is it a bottle or a can and let me know
who I am

is it a leaf or a tree is it the honey or the bee
dressed as mutton  could be the lamb please let me know
who I am

is it a highway or a road  could be a frog maybe a toad
Is it a fish or the clam  and can you tell me
who I am

Is it the ocean or the sea  is it a forest or a bunch of trees
was the daughter the son of Sam  and can you tell me
who I am

is it real or is it fake animal lover or beefsteak
reject the pig or eat the ham and can you tell me
who I am

Is it a spark or a flame is it mega or is it lame
is it old or secondhand and can you tell me
who I am

is it the singer or the song roll a joint or stoke the bong
breathing water or walking land can you tell me
who I am

is it a skirt or a pretty dress  scent of a woman or mans flesh
did she swim or him that swam and can you tell me
who I am

was it the chicken or the egg was he a she that said
life ever after is just a sham  but I can tell you
who I am

Is it X or is it Y real musician or ai
sperm donor or a happy dad and can you tell me
who I am

Who I Am

This is a rework of our 2019 remix "Glimmer". When we started our collaboration in early 2019, this was one of the first remixes we realized as "Child of Nature"💖💖💖

Based on Amanitalinda's production notes from the same year, we have now succeeded in restoring the song to its originally intended form in November 2025. We are now happy and proud to present this new rework to you.

Enjoy listening🎶🔊🙌

Repost, like and share 🙏  🍀  🌻
Your Child of Nature ✨🌟❤️🌟✨


Video 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kATnFmBN6pE

Video 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSDoKpUx-wE

Rework 2025

Glimmer (Rework)

Glimmer (Rework 2025) & Video Link

The latest in a series of medley compilations I've got going, featuring some of the better bit of stuff I've recorded. This one covers stuff I've posted on Soundcloud between 2023-2025. A handful of the tunes feature other musicians  (details in the posted full song), and a couple tunes include some loops or sound clips, but for the most part I'm playing everything here.  Thanks for visiting!

0:00 -  Cut 2: "The Chase" (intro)
0:52 -  Modern Times
2:16  - 1 For The Money, 2 For The Blues (part 1) 
3:21  - 1 For The Money, 2 For The Blues (part 2)
4:16  - Caveman
5:46 - Splice of Life
6:41  - Floot Loops
7:51   - Walk With Me
8:58  - Oh My Darlin' Palestine
10:15 - Travelling Circus
11:45  - Red Flag
12:43 - Clyde's Glide
14:00 - Pick Me Up
15:14  - Box o' Rox
16:06 - Dark Arpeggiator / Electric Twilight
17:16  - Mellotron Choir
17:55  - Blue In The Middle 
19:32  - Most of the Time (Funk in 7/8)
20:25 - New Funk City
21:43  - Nowhere Is Here, Never Is Now
22:30 - Cut 2: "The Chase" (outro)


-Mosaic image created from 'portraits' taken using a colour scanner. If you ever try this at home, don't EVER open your eyes while scanning your face, trust me.  ;)

Mark Music Medley (part 4: 2023-2025)

One of Morry's late 80's  or early 90s recordings that I have always really liked. I think this was recorded on an early Tascam cassette recorder, probably 4 or 8 track model. Panning and added harmonics during the outro sound especially good to me. All the guitar tracks were likely on his ovation roundback he had at the time. Pic is apartment building where we lived after college for a while - top right balcony was a good place to play music.  Hope all our SC friends are doing well.

Discovery

It's that time again folks.

Here's our annual Christmas offering.

Music and performed by David Cooper and Glen Granthem.

Lyrics by Ralph Donkin:

Intro

It's Christmas time
It's Christmas time

It’s Christmas time
It’s Christmas time

Fires burning brightly feels so warm and content
Cards along the mantelpiece which old friends have sent
Time for celebration, it's Christmas time

Santa Claus is coming; he’s well on his way
Rudolf and his friends pull along his sleigh
Time for celebration, it's Christmas time

Chorus

It’s Christmas time and all is well
Can you hear that Christmas bell
Ringing out as life goes on
Merry Christmas everyone

Break

And very soon I'm sure the snow will fall
And a snow-white Christmas will be had by all

Brightly coloured presents piled under the tree
Carol singers singing their sweet melodies
Time for celebration, it's Christmas time.

I Won't Play Another Lick Until I Get A Whiskey

Brian J McDonald