I am becoming a fan more and more... it's almost like 'real life minecraft', listening to your music, I can get totally lost in it, so cool 😍

Gorgeous sound scapes.. And love that crackly stuff!

Love how this develops... Adding layers.... Nice

nice music perfectly appropriated for concentration or meditation, bravo

Sense &Sensibility

Another collab with my student Sophie. I am playing piano and she added cello and birds. It's great to be able to do recordings with her, so she can hear what she is playing. It is wonderful encouragement when she can read comments people have left for her on other music. For me, hearing her music grow sometimes I can't tell if she is playing or if it is me. We have been working on expression. Anyone can learn how to read music and play the right notes at the right time with their hands, but learning how to feel music with your body is different. So many adults took piano lessons when they were young and stopped playing and don't have the confidence anymore . If they had a way to hear themselves now maybe they would be encouraged to play again, otherwise it is a complete loss. Today most public schools have shut down creative studies. Children aren't exposed to music like they used to, not since George Bush changed education and made it all about testing testing testing and teachers couldn't teach the way they had been used to. Now its getting much worse. Children need to learn to be creative. It gives me great pleasure to teach them (and adults too!) 

Here Come The Birds!

Crystal (Instrumental)

Vocal Ghosthack

https://youtu.be/XVXBG_Xoy_A

Like Peter Pan

Used samples:

Title: Static
Author: Nickisawesome74
Link: freesound.org/people/Nickisawsome74/sounds/669620/

Title: rustic_mechanism_9.wav
Author: strangehorizon
Link: freesound.org/people/strangehorizon/sounds/689459/

Fault Tolerance

RiZLiX is a phenomenal person and a fine musician.

Working with him was a dream!

Find him here: 
https://soundcloud.com/rizlixcollabs

And here:
https://soundcloud.com/rizlix

Tin Woman
I feel my age these days
bones creaking
the need to be well-oiled
like some kind of
tin woman
all rusted
my metal parts
need refurbishing
then I could
have a new body
without dying
Be all bionic
and built like
a brickhouse again.

donate

Tin Woman feat. RiZLiX

From the EP "Smilers" June 2023
Hello Oxnard!!!
We're a rock & roll band
We'll rock & roll until we die
We've got rock & roll in our souls
And it's eating it's way out from the inside
Cover band superstars!

We look like we've been going about 20 years too long
5 fat geezers
All playing a different song
We're encumbered by music industry success
But, we are pure
We are holy
Cover band superstars!

We we're gonna put out our 1st album
It would be a masterpiece
Then we we're gonna fake our own deaths
Thereby securing our legacy
In the rock & roll mythology
Oh, but look at me now
Singing songs
"pour some sugar on me"
"anyone wanna hear bohemian rhapsody?"

It's enough to make you fall out of love with rock & roll
You know who we are
Meet me at the bar
Cover band superstars!

A man has to live his dreams
No matter what...

Cover Band Superstars!

Modern Artists like Leon Bridges and Son Little marry hip hop or RnB rhythms often to acoustic based songs. Its an opportunity to blend elements that you love from 2 generations of music into one song - some lyrical bite, sweetened by 60s vocal harmonies.


FAKING IRONY

I see your troubles start from within
And she is prickling cause you’re so wooden
Look at her sparkle like the lemon
Floating on her pour of bubbly gin

Life is serious but only at certain times of day
Where’s the gazelle leap to release your mind to play

It’s a hard road when you take everything literally
If only you could take a course in faking irony
But here you are your face is pinched and spidery
If only you could take a course in faking irony

For you gravity and time operate differently
You’re drowning in the history of epiphany
Will you ever get to feel for the other side
Letting go that crippling brainy ultra-pride

She needs a belly laugh that drops her to the ground
Nothing sexy ‘bout your analysing head up in the clouds

It’s a hard road . . . faking irony

Your birth blueprint and childhood pricked you like a thorn
But your conscience can’t be faulted and you’re always doing good
You probably can’t be changed and that’s an awful thought
Cause things I’m advocating - they probably can’t be taught

She needs a belly laugh that drops her to the ground
Nothing sexy ‘bout your analysing head up in the clouds

It’s a hard road . . . faking irony

FAKING IRONY

Mick mac on drums, Phaggot on Guitar and bass

Firetwerks Demo 1

Tihiy Mir - Nebosklon

Tracklist:
1. Siyanie
2. Poslednie Dni Leta
3. Monolog
4. Novoe Proshloe
5. Aquarelle

[ПРЛ 006]

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Tihiy Mir - Monolog

Earth orchestra meets universe's orchestra.

Thanks to NASA for samples from Saturn, Kepler and emfisis

Thanks to the Solar Eclipse 2nd July 2019 for the visuals and inspiration.

Video available at https://youtu.be/43LGd85hTQI

Darkest Before Dawn

Darkest Before Dawn - demo

I started playing around with digital music creation in my early twenties, but I have always been haunted by a quote from Theo Parrish who said that he is "not comfortable with convenience replacing artistry", meaning that you need to put effort into learning and mastering the skills in order to bring something good. I studied computer science and have a passion for logics and programming and somehow my lack of any musical background has kept me from publishing any of my works.

Many years later I got inspired by an interview with Thomas Fehlmann where he explained how the focus in his work is not on the result so much but on the process itself. How the process is a "source of expression" and something he just feels he has to do. This resonated with me and I realised that it's ok to be an autodidact in music and it's ok to make music just for the sake of making music. I make music for me and if you, dear listener, like it along the way I'm very happy about that.

I am inspired by nature, natural processes and the interaction we have with them. Organic asymmetric fractal patterns that are rooted in logic but unpredictable as they express. How a particular stormy night can affect the shape and growth of a plant for years to come.

I use Bitwig Studio to create my tracks.

(I don't always respond with "thanks" to each comment but I read and appreciate all. If you have a question or really need a reply send me a message)

(With a few artists we run a little group on discord to discuss ideas and what not. The link is below if you're interested in joining)

Fault Tolerance

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