We Can't Stop (Miley Cyrus Cover)

As I reached middle life, I discovered there is another way of living than the one I had been taught by late 20th-Century Western society: one that allows, rather than restricts. It requires a focus on what I want, rather than what I don’t want, and is based on abundance, not limitation: it creates, rather than destroys. I learned this way partly through reading other people’s accounts (Deepak Chopra’s 7 Spiritual Laws of Success, and the 7 Hermetic Principles to name a few), but also by watching the forest go through its annual cycles. Through intellectual understanding and mysterious experiences, both of which led me into the architecture explored here, I have found that practicing these principles radically changed my life. While these laws are constant, my experience of them is not... so I offer them here for contemplation in performance and sound. The performer is encouraged to interact with each “law” sonically, by listening to a fixed media (the “laws”), and responding from their own heart, mind, emotion, body and spirit. Listening inwardly and outwardly becomes the most important aspect of performing the Seven Spiritual Laws of Life.

1.	Anything is possible in a Universe full of unlimited potential
2.	Giving is receiving and both express an exchange of energy that creates flow
3.	Energy given returns in like fashion
4.	Nature’s wisdom illustrates following the path of least resistance
5.	Inherent in every intention and desire are the mechanics of its fulfillment
6.	Observing without judgment is the highest form of freedom
7.	Everything has its own purpose, and everyone, their own unique path on which they travel at their own speed toward this purpose

JoDee Davis, Trombone, Paul Rudy, Piano

I am indebted to the many wise teachers I have had on this journey, for helping me see and experience these things in everyday life, and to JoDee Davis for her trombone sounds!

Seven Spiritual Laws of Life

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I sampled Jeff Goldblum's bizarre laugh from this scene In Jurassic Park.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlOx9738iyw

I hope you enjoy it!

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Hahahrawrrahaha (Free Download In Description)

The Four Corners area of the United States (Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Arizona) will always be a special place for me, because of the power of it’s beauty, simplicity, color, shape, smell, sound and feel. In the summer of 2003 I was reading Edward Abbey’s “Desert Solitaire” while traveling through the very places that he was writing about in this area. Wilderness experiences (often in solitude) are those which I had always thought could not be adequately expressed in words....

Soliloquy

Improvisation on a theme by Shostakovich

“Wunderkind” is a well-known German term historically applied to a person who possesses an extraordinary talent or brilliance (particularly musical) at an early age.  The creative impetus for this work was the desire to explore the intellectual workings of a developing child prodigy, the electronic component used to expand the palette of such a restricted instrument while representing the mind’s ear of the child.  All of the sounds in the fixed media were created by recording and processing my own toy piano.  I did in fact sit on the six-inch-high bench while doing so.

"Wunderkind" was awarded First Prize in the 2013 Prix Destellos, mixed media category (Mar del Plata, Argentina)
http://fundestellos.org/pageone.htm

Wunderkind for toy piano and computer (2011-2012)

Live free jam recorded at a performance at Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art on 4/20/13 featuring the incomparable Mark Southerland.



We Speak in Calculus (feat. Mark Southerland)

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Jurassic Park Theme (1000% Slower)

Brief Biography: 
Composer Charles McGraw has accomplished many things in life, some of which even involve music.

Improvisation on a theme by Shostakovich

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