Name: Music for Poetry - Where We Belong - Demo by Cathryn_Stone
Duration: 2 min 5 s
Description: Writing music to some of my favourite words. This week I chose "Where we Belong" by Maya Angelou. I could write music to all her words, they have such fantastic natural rhythm that to me calls out to be in song..

There is good and evil in each of us. We see this every day, looking inside ourselves, into our heart, into our soul, into our inner mirrors. Sometimes we see good there, but sometimes evil.  I want to dedicate this track to all the good people who gave their lives in this eternal war. In a sense, this track is a requiem for the passing World, as I knew it.

Inner Mirrors

Playing for the Man at the Door: Field Recordings from the Collection of Mack McCormick, 1958 - 1971

James Tisdom - Salty Dog Rag

Hope you enjoy this piano piece recorded on a Bosendorfer.

Now I Know

The latest challenge from my friends' "Muse and Method" group was to create something based on the idea of "Cycles". It had me thinking of how clawhammer banjo playing is so reliant on repeated patterns--cycles, if you will. I've fooled around in the past with multitracked and interlocking banjo patterns (Steve Reich's worst nightmare?)and thought I would revisit the idea here.

This track consists of five five-stringed banjos playing in five-four time. The picture is Charles Demuth's "I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold".

An older, looser, maybe more fun version of this experiment, from 2012, is here: https://hanklebury.bandcamp.com/track/the-dream-of-rain

5x5x5

Sound of the Wind

George was my best friend, from Venice Beach days.

Great Life Of My Friend George

All That Was East Is West Of Me Now

There's No Mountain

This is a new piece for string orchestra.  I would like to thank John Hopkins @john-hopkins-941786350 who very kindly productively challenged me regarding this work.  Hope you enjoy listening.  Thank you.

Never Forget

Merry March Of The Scatterbugs

On August 27th 2023, I received the very sad news of the untimely passing of Brian McBride at the age of 53. There is so much more that I can say about the emotional turmoil that this has caused in me and the entire music community. But today, I won't talk about the darkness in which the world is left with one more going-out light. Instead, I'll celebrate his music, which is still among us, flickering with energy to light and show the way. "Far From Home" is the "Diminished Stories Mix" which Brian made for Kenneth James Gibson's Further Translations album, collecting remixes by the likes of Jack Dangers, Christopher Willits, Scanner, Awakened Souls, and a few others, reworking pieces from Gibson's previous albums (in this case, "Far From Home" appeared on his 2018 release In The Fields Of Nothing). Gibson met McBride in the late 2000s, and the duo started a band, Bell Gardens, in 2009, exploring "the realms of Americana, chamber pop, folk, and psychedelic pop." For this remix, McBride begins with shimmering waves of wistful strings, which, after their introduction, subside into a bit of darkness, maybe sadness, and introspective grief, the way my mood turns every time I think about this world without the many great musicians that we lost along the way. Or, is it possible that we mourn for ourselves, and music is the way to leave a piece of us behind and be immortal, even for a bit? In any case, I'll close my eyes and play this gorgeous music, and for a moment, I'll pretend that Brian's still around. To me, that is as real as the rest...

Further Translations

Far From Home (Brian McBride's Diminished Stories Mix)

TRACK PREMIERE : Kenneth James Gibson - Far From Home (Brian McBride's Diminished Stories Mix)

Writing music to some of my favourite words. This week I chose "Where we Belong" by Maya Angelou. I could write music to all her words, they have such fantastic natural rhythm that to me calls out to be in song..

Music for Poetry - Where We Belong - Demo

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