Revision of this old piece, realized with better sound source files and a more flexible DAW...

Far From You

new rendering with LMMS DAW...

I wrote this in May of 2008, and from looking at the files it seemed remarkably well formed from the start.  Not sure when the name was coined, but the earliest file modified date with the name is October 2010.

My eldest once remarked that she thought it was a Beatles tune when I played it on the piano when it was a new composition.  I still am humbled by that compliment.

Worthless And Priceless

This has some words, I wrote the diddy when I got my dog Gibson 8 years ago.  I  wanted to have some friends listen to it, and was surprised how well I actually developed the idea.

Not sure how far the words have gone...the chorus is

Little dog, little dog dog
Little dog, do the Gibby Poop

Verse was at least something like:

Who's jumping off the bed at night
Always hiding out of sight
Barking at the bigger dogs?
Gibby does!

Gibby Poop

Just a little expounding on an idea I had recently.  Been too busy to write much, felt good doing a little arranging.  Were i good at this I could have done a lot more with the theme.  Heck, the piano part is basically wanking...

The March Hare

Not sure this is EXACTLY the arrangement of the track I already posted...but I decided to make a round with another voice, modifying the 2nd voice's part so the 2 end simultaneously.

Mercifully this is only a bit over 2 minutes, as opposed to the 5 minute slog of the original, 1 voiced piece...

April 2013 Tone Row Revisited

An example of within measure poly rhythms.  Also known as a music rollercoaster.

Asynchronous Adventure

Some talk about poly rhythms got me posting Asynchronous Adventures; got me thinking about a more traditional poly rhythmic structure with different parts in different time signatures, rather than different tempo's.  This is 7 layered on 8 layered on 9 - there's a harmonic instrument doing something with each meter.  See if you can identify the 3 different parts!

Relativistic Percussion

I'll admit that no instruments were touched writing this...another "think of a drum beat" and let my imagination run wild...

Funny - a theme that emerges in the B section (starting about 2:25) has similarities to one that emerged in an unreleased piece from several years back where I was using some serial techniques like retrograde/inversion.

(Not) My First Rodeo

I've been messing with this for a while and yesterday with my buddy I figured out a bridge and what the heck I was doing rhythmically.

LX - 10 - 11

Re-work of a piece I wrote about 5 years ago.  In practice there would a longer instrumental at the end, and maybe another recap of the head.  I was trying to teach it to a guitarist friend but needed to review what I wrote...when I did I decided it needed some changes.

Elephants Never Forget (2020)

Multi instrumentalist/writer.  These are MIDI demo's, so nothing real.  A real band will create a new page if/when we start recording anything.

Ed Ardzinski

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