may your musical delights continue to bloom...bravo

Light and beautiful as a delicate flower... Stunning   ❤️Love, 🕊️Peace, 🙏Respect

Written in 2019 after the bittersweet experience of dropping my daughter Ivy off at her first day of daycare.  This is a short version.  I have some rough recordings of a 10-minute version that I might break into separate songs and further develop to post in the future when I have time to tackle a bigger project.

For the music theorists: The opening theme is in A-minor, there is a somewhat jazzy middle part starting around 0:38 that is in G-mixolydian (I guess), and the last part starting around 1:00 exchanges between A-minor and C-lydian (with a lot of pedaling off the root to assert the Lydian mode).  The final chord is half-resolved (as it ends on a C power chord after a Lydian arpeggio that, due to its tritone, wants to resolve to a G triad).  

In hindsight, I think it would make more sense to transpose the song a half step down as it would have eased the jumps in the left hand to involve the black keys.  The initial version of the song had a very simple left hand, and so was fine in A-minor.  By the time I started making the left hand more elaborate, I had kind of settled on playing the song in A-minor.

The artwork is one of Ivy's watercolor paintings from the same time period when I composed the song.

Sheet music for the song is available on request.

Sonatina for Ivy

Music of celebration of the bottling in the underground cellar of a family home amongst family and friends. Collab with Marty Silec.

The Bottling

Chapter 128 of 266
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TAFFETA | 128

I am now particularly glad to present my 1st ever collaboration in a musical trio! This great idea was due to DjArtw2001 (https://soundcloud.com/djartw2007), who took the initiative and mixed in MAGIX a part composed by DAN-DT (https://soundcloud.com/Dan-T-3) - originally, I understand, in 2018 - with a part I composed on 17 February 2023 and a part DjArtw2001 composed himself on 18 February 2023 into a new track that we release today on SounClound, under the title of "Trois versions d'une histoire" (or, in our English translation for those who do not read French, "Three Versions of a Story"). We thank Josh Boyer (Future Analysis: https://soundcloud.com/futureanalysis), who used to work with DAN-DT and who recorded with him the vocal samples. We hope that you will enjoy the track!

The painting in the artwork cover for the track was created by DAN-DT on 19 February 2023, and then the artwork cover was annotated and completed using PowerPoint and Mac OS Preview by Alex M on 27 February and 4 March 2023 - in coordination and agreement with DjArtw2001 and DAN-DT.

Thank you so much for this beautiful collaboration and artwork, DAN-DT and DjArtw2001 - so talented SoundCloud musicians, creators, artists and friends!

Duration: 6:21 minutes

Trois versions d'une histoire - DAN-DT, Alex M & DjArtw2001

Here's the Companion piece to 'Benvenuta Primavera'. 

Both were recorded in the same Session on March 28th 2023 on Saturna Island.

What can i say, my Listeners; the Music just keeps pouring outta me. 😁So...what can i do but to simply Let it Flow. 🤗

May you enJOY! 😊

© Gary Courtland-Miles 2023
℗ Gary Courtland-Miles 2023

Blossoms *

My last track for now, based on my "Myriad Love". I wish you a good time, stay creative, keep your head up...and always be kind to each other 🤗👍🙏
THANK YOU ALL!

C U 🥰🤗

DL free 😊❤️

Myriads Of Thanks To All My Friends | LOVE YOU ❤️

Sono questi i giorni decisivi della nostra vita. Da molti punti di vista. 
C'è chi ve l'aveva detto, senza compromesso alcuno, e non da pochi mesi, ma da subito.
Non perché medico, ma perché libero nell'intelletto e nello spirito, perché cosciente dei mali del mondo. Perché nemico dei servi del Male.
Sappiate riconoscere il valore reale delle persone. La cosa più difficile al mondo. 
Ma oggi più che mai necessaria.
Uniamoci e denunciamo. E combattiamo uniti, contro i servi della menzogna, per la verità e la libertà, per noi e per il futuro dei nostri figli.
E che Dio ci aiuti e salvi.
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These are the decisive days of our life. From many points of view.
There are those who told you so, without any compromise, and not for a few months, but immediately.
Not because he is a doctor, but because he is free in intellect and spirit, because he is aware of the evils of the world. Because enemy of the servants of Evil.
Know how to recognize the real value of people. The hardest thing in the world.
But today more than ever necessary.
Let's unite and report. And we fight united, against the servants of lies, for truth and freedom, for us and for the future of our children.
And may God help and save us.

Apriti a Dio  *  Open up to God

Colorful Colorado – Autumn (feat. Video)
Watch the YouTube video featuring beautiful photography by Heidi Schnicker at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_JLb9uDbrc
October 2023
Duration: 3:10
Cover art photo: Heidi Schnicker 
Originally composed November 2016, revised and re-orchestrated October 2023
For strings, flute, oboe d'amore, bass flute, heckelphone, piano, vibraphone, virtual instruments, sound effects and percussion.

Colorful Colorado  - Autumn (feat. Video)

Place Never Seen

distance

Color of nature

There's no doubt about it, Music animates my Soul, and as an enthusiastic student of Life as well as a passionate Improvisational Pianist &  Composer, as far as I'm concerned, our lives would be impoverished without it ! :)  Composing is all about 'Sharing the Joy, Passion and Angst' we experience in Life, as well as connecting with Musicians and 'Creatives' worldwide. This makes it even more wonderful!  That willingness to engage in whatever way makes SC an ever-expanding Movable Feast that nourishes and inspires on so many levels. 

Music Communicates the Emotional and Informational Content and Context of Heart, Mind, Spirit, and Soul. And 'Letting it Flow' is 'Where Its At' as I hear it!  

Over the past few years since becoming part of the SoundCloud Family, my 'Joy in and Passion for' Creative Musical Expression has increased exponentially as has my appreciation of all the wonderfully passionate Musicians and Creatives worldwide who have devoted themselves to Letting It Take Form! 

Here's a bit of a bio, if anyone is interested.  

Somehow, my MUSE got my attention at a tender age. About the time I was completing my Royal Conservatory training. 

My memory being poorer than most, I began improvising in the passages I had forgotten. And while the audience seemed unaware, my teacher chastised me indulgently, saying, "it appears I have a budding composer on my hands"!  And thus began my Odyssey into the wonderful Vibrational world of Sound!:-) In-deed, I have been an ardent, attentive and appreciative acolyte of my Muse ever since. 

During the early 1970s I had the pleasure and honour of a three year friendship and Master Class with the then Octogenarian Composer Manoah Leide-Tedesco , one of Tone Poem giant Richard Strauss` favorite pupils and friend of Maurice Ravel and other 20th century composers such as Stravinsky (whose music he helped popularize). Since then, whether Improvising, listening, studying composition or devoting myself wholly to the visual arts for years at a time, I have been deeply aware that sharing my musical insights , teaching, and or mentoring young aficionados came with the territory!   I love it, although I am afraid that as my consciousness expands...that I know less and less each year! :-)  

The Tonal Oasis called SoundCloud is a fine and wondrous place in oh so many ways.  And with your support and appreciation, I de-Light to share my music with an ever widening audience. I call what i upload ' Sound-Seeds'.  Most of these 'bed tracks' call out to be fleshed out by passionate soloists who somehow Resonate with my Soundz and Ideas.  So please drop me a line, as i am most interested in letting them bear more fruit through collaboration, interpretation, re-mixing or use in other media.    

And on a personal Note, a Huge Thank-You to each and all who listen, inJoy, and Re-Post onwards what finds it's way thru me! :) Bless y'all.  It's my Joy to simply 'Let' the Creative Spirit find expression through this instrument of Body, Mind, and Heart!  I hope you will find some peace, joy, and rest, in at least some of my improvisations, compositions, or soundz. 

Insofar as playing, and composing  ... as you continue on in Your journey into  the infinite 'Cave of Wonders' we call Music, I wish you all the very best in all Your creative endeavours. 

So Be Kind to yourSelves and one another. Be Audacious, Ready to Play, and above all, share the Joy of being able to express whatever you're feeling. 

In-deed, may The Muse continue to 'Sing on and Play on' through each of us !   For this is one way this 'ol world is lifted up, and Changed for the better - note by note, and smile by smile .  

 Yes, may we simply Let our Creativity flow forth without concern for results.
                                   Peace

                                    Gary *+*

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                       Pluto's atmosphere as seen recently by Horizon Spacecraft

Blossoms *

Anomon

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