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This piece was designed as the theme song for an imaginary detective series

On Youtube : https://youtu.be/U9AU223mhZ8?si=SYgQ1puWiEcjulRH

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Buried Secrets

It's a song about those moments when the world amazes me- when the beauty and mystery of the world around me knocks me over.
Specifically, wandering back from the Old Town in Hastings after a couple of drinks on a lovely Summer night. The picture is one of my lino prints and shows Tackleway in Hastings, along with one of the badgers we see all the time round here, and are mentioned in the song.

Wonders and Sighs

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Piano Sketch 20 Mystical Spring Sky

- Thinking about the fickle weather of spring...

Piano Sketch 20 Mystical Spring Sky

I do not expect anyone to understand this piece. I am not sure I understand it myself. I consider this one of my best pieces....more specifically, I like the idea. The fact the piece is likely to sink without trace has no discernible bearing on my affinity for the idea behind it.

Piano Concerto No.1 (3rd movement) Op.22

My Method of Composing and Producing

I'm sharing my method of composing and producing music recordings in case other composer-producers like me might find ideas worth exploring in their own work. I use this method for Classical, Avant-Pop or Neo-Folk Instrumental genres, not for Ambient and Soundscape pieces. Non-composers might find this explanation interesting, but having a bit of music theory background will definitely help. I consider myself a humble learner when it comes to music theory. 

I owe a debt of gratitude to British musician and educator Gareth Green, whose Music Matters online courses and free YouTube lessons have taught me so much over the past few years. Thanks to his instruction, I’ve moved from struggling to compose music by trial and error to something more enjoyable and productive. The knowledge I've gained has taken my work in new and expanding directions. As the saying goes, “Theory is not a cage — it’s a map. It doesn’t make the journey for you, but it keeps you from getting lost.” 

When I start a new piece, I begin by choosing a key, and picking a scale drawn from one of these sources:
 
1) Western Tonal / Functional Harmony - major or minor chords I II III IV V VI VII
2) Modal Harmony - Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, etc.
3) Slonimsky's "Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns" 
4) Messiaen’s "Seven Modes of Limited Transposition" 

For many pieces, I also decide on a progression, one as a simple as I IV V, or something more elaborate.  

Next I create a "scales and progressions" piano track in my DAW (digital audio workstation software) and enter the chords I to VII in my chosen key. These harmonized scales serve as a basis for writing multipart harmonies and finding pivot chords for key modulations. 

At the start, I know what instruments I want to use, making adjustments along the way. I tend to write chord parts first, then melodies created through a mix of improvisation and direct input in the DAW. Sometimes I start with a melody.

I develop melodies and variations of a phrase by some combination of: a) passing it from one instrument to another, transposing it by an interval that sounds pleasing, b) reversing it, c) inverting it around the tonic (first) note of the scale. These are well-known methods. 

After completing a section, I choose another scale and maybe a new key and repeat the process until I have a draft of the entire piece. Then I export a recording and listen to it “offline”, take notes of errors and new ideas, and incorporate them back into the piece. Often this “compose / listen / compose” cycle is repeated many times. These iterative cycles include adding new ideas, polishing transitions between sections, changing the arrangement, and incorporating expressive details like accents, and articulations (staccato, sustain, portato etc.). I’m often working several different pieces at once. 

Last is mixing and mastering: balancing the loudness between instruments and adjusting elements like reverb, compression, and equalization. I tend to mix as I compose, even though many producers frown on that approach. I find mixing as I go helps me envision the completed piece and make adjustments to the choice of instruments; it self-inspires me when the piece is starting to sound good.  At the end I do a final mix, but as the saying goes, “A mix is never finished — it’s surrendered.”

In the end, this method gives me a basis for exploration and creativity and helps me stay focused. The goal is always to make a piece of music that feels expressive, cohesive, and emotionally resonant.

Suite for Woodwinds and Percussion No. 2

Of Moths and Moonlight

I used to work in a municipal council depot in the late 1980’s and met some brilliant characters. Ronnie was one of them - he used to walk 3 miles each way to work/home. He had interesting views on life! It’s a bleak folk song but with some humour thrown in. They all used quite fruity/earthy expressions and I wanted to capture some of that. I hope you enjoy it. Mastered by RCD Digital. 
Lyrics 

Cough up the green, like a dying mans wheeze 
Mould on the walls, there’s no enjoyment 
Clothes so damp, they’ll rot your bones
It’s all frustration and disappointment 

Life is a sore that never heals

Day after day it’s just
Walk to work, pick up them bags 
Throw them in as the packerplate screeches 
Home, eat, soak my plums if I’m lucky, then sleep
But it’s still dark when I wake up! 

In all weather we work, shine, snow and rain
Fevers and puking, we push through the pain
But don’t think the boss will let you be late 
The old man will lose it and show you the gate!!

Life is a sore that never heals

Day after day it’s just
Walk to work, pick up those bags
Throw them in as the packer plate screeches 
Home, eat, sink some pints if I’m lucky
And sleep, but it’s still dark when I wake up 

And the great and the good, shiny and monied
their perfect kids with daddy and mummy 
What’s it to me where they live, what they do
How they’re doing in school, or where they holiday to?
I don’t care , it’s not my life
Leave me alone! 

And now there’s lots of management around
To save some money and cut some rounds
But there’s only so much these old bones can take
Push me too hard and the old back will break

Scratch cards! Yeah scratch cards
Thank God for scratch cards 
One lucky match,  I break free
But until then, it’s the same old routine

Day after day it’s just
Walk to work 
Pick up those bags
Throw them in as the packer plate screeches 
Home, eat, sit and rest if I’m lucky 
Then sleep, but it’s still dark when I wake up! 

James Whiteman copyright (lyrics 2017; music 2025)

Ronnie’s Lament (The Loader)

on the road from Maribor to Bamberg I noticed a sign that said Quellverkehr - sounded like an interesting title for a synth-based instrumental. Hope you enjoy. Downloadable CC BY. 

Quellverkehr

Change the Ending

Un grand merci à Cyril Mendez et Lena pour votre si belle complicité et collaboration :))

Auteur compositeur : Steph Ouna
coeur ; Lena  https://soundcloud.com/user-262019520
Mastering : Cyril Mendezhttps://soundcloud.com/canm

Fil de lumière

Refrain
I just need to live
Everyone made a wish
A light to find their way

T'entends des éclats de rire, de musique
tes rêves sont doux mais englués de plastique
la magie du matin nous tend la main

en se baladant sur le fil au gré des saisons
j'avais complètement oublié de te demander ton nom
tu m'as donné un sourire, je t'ai prêté mon blouson

Quelques étoiles sont venues partager quelques idées
un peu de velouté dans nos vies agitées
rendant possible quelques rêves oubliés

Refrain

dans ce chaos pas d'escabeau
j'avançais comme un escargot ma maison sur le dos
le coeur léger et c'est la vie qui nous sourit

tu me trouvais bien futile avec mes idées
tous les deux partis en vrille quelle drôle d'idée
attirés comme un aimant, profitant de l'instant

Refrain

Fil de lumière

Massive thanks again to Bitzone and DeeP. for keeping the energy going on this projects. Big up to RS Frawstakwa on keeping connected and always being down to bust some rhymes on another track. I have been digging not playing any role in the music production department and just laying down vocals.

“It Ain’t Looking Good,” similar to “I Don’t Owe Ya,” and “Deeper” are influenced by my daily commute to work and the neighborhoods I drive through. The vibrations I was mostly influenced by were very different when I lived in the bay area and worked in Silicon Valley. Santa Cruz had a slightly similar vibration to my current commute, but it was definitely more sunny, positive, and new age. I also suppose that the lyrics and vibe of these tracks are also influenced by the current societal focus on Mental Health. 

As always, I appreciate you all listening and commenting and supporting the music on my page. What a long strange trip it’s been. I wish everyone greater and deeper knowing and appreciation of themself. 

Bitzone: Keys, Backing Vocals, Drums, Bass, Arrangement, Production, and Mastering
https://soundcloud.com/bitzone
DeeP.: Keys, Drums, Bass, Percussion, Arrangement & Production
https://soundcloud.com/detlef-piepke
RS Frawstakwa: Lyrics and Vocals
https://soundcloud.com/frawstakwa 
Couch King: Lyrics, Vocals, and Vocal Arrangement
https://musiciselation.bandcamp.com

Lyrics

Rolling through the hood with a crack in the glass 
Dent in the trunk from 3 years past
Flashing on the dash cause always low on the gas 
What what ch-u looking at huh
What ch-u looking at

Police rolling up hoping they just gonna pass
Marijuana legal no more looking for grass
Still watching out keeping it real working class
What what ch-u looking at huh
What ch-u looking at

Sole falling off the shoe ain’t embarrassed 
Yea it’s the same hoodie, why’d you even ask 
Don’t need to explain why we taken it back 
What what ch-u looking at huh
What ch-u looking at

In the Veil of Darkness
You still see a profile 
And it ain’t looking good for me
And it ain’t looking too good for me
And it ain’t looking good for me

Scowl on the prowl feeling real hopeless
Low vibration got no focus 
Don’t need your fuckin’ help fuck your diagnosis 
What ch-u looking at huh
What ch-u looking at 

Hanging in the parking lot 
Bumming cigarettes 
Mindin’ our own business
Joking bout regrets 
Gave up trying to change
Now we get what we get
Yea we act a fool 
But your the one with threats 
We ain’t looking at you
So why you all upset 

Whatchya lookin’ at?
Stop and stare and laugh
Take a photograph 
It’ll last longer that way
Oh snap
Spit actual facts
About this and that 
By the paragraph
None of it’s an act
I just rap

Bitzone, DeeP., RS Frawstakwa, & the Couch King - It Ain't Looking Good

Inspired by short sighted visionless politicians concreted into the same destructive values held throughout human history now destroying the very eco systems we all rely on preferring profit over planet for our society's and always saying they can fix it, when in reality it can't be fixed its very broken and needs a complete overall as the scientist have warned us we need a fundamental change to bring back a future for our children and all life upon this world! Materialism has got a tight grip on our modern thinking when will we stop? 10mins before the end and they will they sell us an insurance policy for that to! haha Hope you enjoy this thought provoking save the planet original hiphop rap journey vibe! Get down shep! Peace! :D

Lyrics:

This is the start of the revolution taking over the planet
A new way of thinking and new way of seeing power

We all sit at home watching the telly playing with our phones while the world is dying 
People are crying nature is frying 
Let the poor get poorer and the rich will thrive
Always talking brexit Just like the press
Always talking brexit Let the poor get poorer and the rich will thrive

Scientists inform us we need fundimental change
Running the system like the keystone cops
No political vision and the corruption is rife 
Spongebob could do better to shape the future
Molded are the roots of the politcal system
Altering the flow of the planetary warming
Plug me in and lets get kewl 
Aliens are coming they will plug you into

Uh Oh aliens are coming
Uh Oh sit at home playing with our phones while the world is dying
Let the poor get poorer and the rich will thrive 
Uh Oh sit at home playing with our phones while the world is dying
Always talking brexit Let the poor get poorer and the rich will thrive

So here we are grubbing around in the undergrowth on this strange planet in the deepest of darkest of space,
Look at these ano bacteria, you can see there spacial elements proturding from there proboscisis
Get down shep

Diggers and cars and concrete landscapes floating in the depths of space 
Now evolves the human race faster than the speed of light intersteller spacial sea mr spaceman look and see
Famine Pandemics War Religion Money

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Plug Me In Lets Get Kewl 😎

Un grand Merci à Cyril Mendez pour m'avoir proposé de faire les coeurs sur cette magnifique musique.
Je vous invite à aller sur sa page afin de découvrir d'autres versions de "Mathieu" ainsi que ses compositions.
Musique, arrangement, mix, mastering, vignette : Cyril MENDEZ https://soundcloud.com/canm
Coeurs : Lena

Mathieu (Collaboration avec Cyril Mendez) Version Soft

Lead vocal , acoustic guitar, bass and song by William Paterson 
@w-paterson-1-1
Orchestration by @gotchi
Backing vocals, drums ,B3 Organ, harmonica, mix and mastering by conover
© 2019 Patersongs/Conover
ITS JUST LIFE
She don't love you true
She's out grownin you 
She's moved on to something new 
Its just life

You got to face the fact
You cant win her back 
Its got nothing to do about what you lack 
Its just life

Its been take away you no longer stay 
In her mind she's free from you 
Its been taken away you no longer stay 
In her mind she's free from you

You've been here before
You lick your wounds as they grow sore
But you'll bounce back you know for sure 
Its just life

Your feeling alone your feeling afraid
You settle down in this bed you've made
Uncompromising the price you've paid
Its just life

Its been taken away you no longer stay 
In her mind she's free from you 
Its been taken away you no longer stay 
In her mind she's free from you 
Its been taken away you no longer stay 
In her mind she's free from you 
Its been taken away you no longer stay 
In her mind she's free from you .

Relax.... It's just Life

It's Just Life. (Patersongs/Conover)

If there was only two traits that came through in my music, I would hope that it would seem to be effortless and inevitable.
The Kind Place Studio

It's Just Life. (Patersongs/Conover)

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