Here is something quite different. :-)  

I've been messing around with Blender 2.92.0 and specifically the 2D Animation feature. One of the add-ons to Blender allows you to import 2D images as planes so I created a little character called Vector Owl and then I needed to create  some music to go with the animated intro, all of 10 seconds in length.

If you want to see the completed animation it's on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qScmOz-YdaQ

Instrumentation Used

Piccolo / Sousaphone / French Horn / Trombone / Woodblocks / Celtic Harp / Upright Bass

The sound of a Tawney Owl that is classed as Public Domain is used at the end of the track was sourced from www.freesound.org and is classed as Public Domain.

( creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)

Music for my animated project Vector Owl

One Day Of Wonder -- With Yanda Amson

Track 4 in "Etats d'âme" (2022) by Alex M: composed, played, arranged, edited and recorded by Alex M in GarageBand iOS and Logic Pro X, 12 March 2021 (late evening), and mixed in Logic Pro X, 15 March 2021 (late evening); posted on SoundCloud on 16 March 2021 (before the release of the album as a whole). The album artwork cover, also used as the cover of each constituent track, was created in Tayasui Sketches on 4 February 2021, edited and annotated in Paint and saved in its final form on 6 February 2021.

Duration: 6:36 minutes
Tempo: 80 bpm
Time Signature: 4/4
Key Signature: A minor

Digital instruments used, in the order of playing and recording:

1. Piano - Steinway Grand Piano
2. Guitar - Acoustic
3. Synthesizer - Bass - Trap Bass
4. Strings - Cinematic - Cello
5. Keyboard - Keyboards - Electric Piano
6. Drums - Acoustic - SoCal
7. Keyboard - Alchemy Synth - Rhythmic - Pulsing Dream Pad (Full)

Etats d'âme - Healing

The Great Awakening

Easter Sunday Improvisation (feat. Adrian Kunz)

Memories of You

I looked across the water. I looked across the sea.
I looked beyond, before, and back, and saw how it used to be.
I looked, and wept, I wondered, how did it get this way?
No, we weren’t perfect, not even close, but somehow we managed anyway.

Then we all fell down. Can’t put my finger on the where and the when.
We all fell down - but we’re getting back up again.

Sure, there were signs, we ignored them. We let it slide through our hands.
Hard to explain, how time and again, we did not see through the plan.
Guess we assumed love was winning. Isn’t that how it’s designed?
No, we weren’t perfect, not even close, but we held on, we kept trying.

Then we all fell down. Can’t put my finger on the where and the when.
We all fell down - but we’re getting back up again.

We All Fell Down

Part 3 of 4, more to come.

Part I https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/EAa557LDViAG6myV6

Part II https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/pQhHrdskL277TMMt8

Published on SC 22 February 2021

Minus 273.15 degrees Celsius - Chillin out with......

Absolute Zero III

The astronaut is ambushed by a gang of space pirates while navigating an asteroid field.

Part four of a concept project I'm working on called 'The Astronaut'.

Space Pirates

Peregrinate

A dark bluesy number recorded years ago under a different project name “Father Stone & Mourning Son.”

Dred Fouglas: Guitar, Vox, Lyrics
Early Gancrowl: Harmony Vox, Mandolin, Super real rattlesnake noises


Lyrics:

A crooked moon has risen from your heart
Grinning through a midnight so unkind
I drag my heels down this sadly silent hill
alone to leave this crying soul behind

Gonna find me a graveyard
Gonna bury my head and rest 
‘neath a weathered tombstone unnamed
May the hell you gave me
limp back to your door
A huge hungry demon enraged

Do you hear me laughing, girl?
Laughing as I beg for death
Yeah, I know you’re moaning, girl
I can smell your sad harlot breath

Oh, soon you’ll miss me
Oh, soon you’ll miss me,
but I’ll be bones in the ground

Gonna Find Me A Graveyard

Inexplicably the man know as Dred Fouglas was born in the year 1913 to two women. In some strange way, they both gave birth to each half of his body. He was rightfully left in the woods at birth. In 1917 he was first documented crafting a stringed instrument from bailing twine and shovels. Feared by the town, he was persecuted and declared a "sheehogue" and a "vargulf" despite having 1 confirmed kill against a werewolf.  He fled the town to become an extra in the Roman Polanski film "Rosemary's Baby". Several years later he read from the Naturom Demonto in East Tennessee and began writing songs that are responsible for at least 13 killings. He now resides with his wife and 24 children in the suburbs of Port Banguss, Maine, smoking his pipe and writing gloomy music is his mildewy garage.