beautiful piano.  nice to hear your storytelling

beautiful song , vocals are great and I really like the chorus 👌

Great song and a great idea to use a poem for lyrics.

Absolutely love this, The vocals are amazing!

I really, really love this track. This is so beautiful. Not just your music, and your voice, but also the production value. You deserve tons of listens for this. What a great last track to hear tonight. thank you!

Lovely song you made of this poem. I like the stereo vocal, it somehow adds to the smoothness of the impeccable production!

beautiful piece and gentle on the soul ❤

2021

A very simple rock sound, but hopefully of impact and it's made of pure guitar.. 

When writing it, I imagined being on a huge stage facing thousands of fans.. Oh yeahhh! eheh ^_^  Maybe one day ..uh? ;-D

\m/ Love Music and Stay Safe <3

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Original Score for "Memories of Overdevelopment" by Miguel Coyula , Sundance New Frontier Selection 2010
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Awards for Best Original Score Havana New Filmmakers Festival.

Cosmic Interruptions

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music to video montage from the documentary  "Oceans" 
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Composer/Producer - Dika Chartoff
Guitar - Chris Westfall

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Heart Is Still Waiting

I´m tired of struggeling,
for some kind of changing.
I´m tired of chasing after dreams,
I can´t be sure, if they will come true.

So how can I move on?
How can I move on?
How can I move on?
While my heart is still waiting,
while my heart is still waiting.

How can I let go
someone that I love?
How can I let go
someone I will never get to know?

I´m tired of holding back,
I´m tired of be patient.
I´m tired of standby,
I want to spread out, what is deep inside.

How can I let go
someone I don´t know?
How can I let go
when I need to stay strong…

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A cool Indie rock track with some grunge guitars and a cool bass and guitar riff. Ideal for advertising, fashion and more!

Photo by Jan Kroon from Pexels

Cool Indie Rock

My musical rendition of the poem by Emily Dickinson is licensed by and credited to Harvard University Press as follows:  

THE POEMS OF EMILY DICKINSON, edited by Thomas H. Johnson, Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Copyright © 1951, 1955 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Copyright © renewed 1979, 1983 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Copyright © 1914, 1918, 1919, 1924, 1929, 1930, 1932, 1935, 1937, 1942, by Martha Dickinson Bianchi. Copyright © 1952, 1957, 1958, 1963, 1965, by Mary L. Hampson.

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I am alive — I guess —
The Branches on my Hand
Are full of Morning Glory —
And at my finger's end —

The Carmine — tingles warm —
And if I hold a Glass
Across my Mouth — it blurs it —
Physician's — proof of Breath —

I am alive — because
I am not in a Room —
The Parlor — Commonly — it is —
So Visitors may come —

And lean — and view it sidewise —
And add "How cold — it grew" —
And "Was it conscious — when it stepped
In Immortality?"

I am alive — because
I do not own a House —
Entitled to myself — precise —
And fitting no one else —

And marked my Girlhood's name —
So Visitors may know
Which Door is mine — and not mistake —
And try another Key —

How good — to be alive!
How infinite — to be
Alive — two-fold — The Birth I had —
And this — besides, in — Thee!

I am alive - I guess

I am alive I guess

I Am Alive I Guess

Beginnings

For what we can and can't explain

Sonata for Bassoon and Piano
Duration: ca. 15'
Publisher: Bill Holab Music: http://www.billholabmusic.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=103_137&products_id=1302
For More Information: https://robertpaterson.com/sonata-for-bassoon-and-piano

PROGRAM NOTES (SHORT VERSION FOR PROGRAMS) 
When I first began to plan this sonata for bassoon and piano, I had no idea that I would be inspired by something so overtly programmatic, let alone by an American, historical figure who was alive well before I was born. I knew that the premiere would take place at the Thomas Edison Inn in Port Huron, Michigan, and my curiosity eventually took hold and I started reading up on Thomas Edison’s inventions and his life. I was immediately hooked: many of his experiences and beliefs resonated with me. I could not stop thinking about him or his inventions and they ended up providing a Romantic and technical inspiration for this piece.

The first movement, Edison’s Ears, is inspired by a legendary story about the ear problems Edison suffered from throughout his childhood in Port Huron. According to this tale, when he was 15, a train accident further injured his ears. When he tried to jump on the moving train, the conductor grabbed him by his ears to help pull him up. The young Edison said he felt something snap inside his head, and he soon began to lose much of his hearing. The thought of something “snapping inside his head” made me think how, as morbid as this is, inventing something musical from this story might have humored him. The middle of the movement reaches its peak with a loud, staccato “snapping” chord. The beginning of this movement sounds somewhat mechanical and is the first of three locomotive sections (based on three musical quotes) that progressively increase in tempo. The end of the movement gradually descends in register and dies away, much like a hyper-speed, fast-forward toward his eventual and inevitable hearing loss.

The second movement, Mina’s Tapping, draws its inspiration from a story about Edison’s second wife, Mina Miller. The story goes that they were introduced to each other by his life-long friend Ezra Gilliland: “Their courtship ended when Edison tapped out a proposal for marriage on Mina’s hand. In their many years together the pair communicated via Morse code. When attending meetings or at gatherings with friends, Mina would tap out the discussions in Morse code on her deaf husband’s hand. Despite his long hours away from home, Thomas and Mina were totally devoted to each other and profoundly in love.” In this movement, Edison is represented by long melodic lines; Mina is represented by heartbeat-like, pulsed chords derived from the dots, dashes and spaces of Morse code.

Edison is also responsible for creating a revolutionary business model, the world’s first “invention factory.” The final movement,Invention Factory Eureka, is inspired by this, and the one invention that is said to have been Edison’s only true “Eureka!” invention, the cylinder phonograph. The opening motivic material in this movement is derived from the word “Eureka!” The many bright ‘dings’ throughout the middle of the movement represent the cliché of a light bulb appearing above someone’s head when they have a bright idea. This image ties in nicely to Edison, his inventions and his one “eureka” moment.

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Sonata for Bassoon and Piano - III. Invention Factory Eureka

R.E.M. influenced jangly guitar track. Had the chorus lyric and melody for years but never really finished the song off. In my head it's the story of a guy somewhere in the US pining for a girl he left behind in England in search of new life, some north of a statue standing somewhere east of London.

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East of London

In The Space Of Lost

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Too Blue

All The Best

Sunshine

O Renascer de um Sonho

“I don't remember my dreams too much. I hardly have ever gotten ideas from nighttime dreams. But I love daydreaming and dream logic and the way dreams go” - David Lynch
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I love to express stories through music and explore the visceral space that surrounds them. Sometimes I’m interested in creating sound collages, or tapestries of sound that are varied in their nature but unified in their aesthetic aim. Other times I surrender to something lyrical. Most of the time, I feel compelled to make sense of the world, which is impossible. But, after some work, which includes frustration, and occasional eureka moments, I find deep meaning and satisfaction in my music, especially as I near the finish line and embark on a collaborative journey with fellow creatives. 

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I Am Alive I Guess

Dika Chartoff

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