Today’s #MusicalMinute has a very different mood from yesterday’s even though it shares the same pitch-class set of 5-35.  The improvised trumpet melody, perhaps, reflects a psychological response to various news items that are being highlighted at the moment.  Ultimately, this is what these tracks are about — they represent a personal perspective of the zeitgeist.  What do you think?

02 Nov 25 Warning Signs

Agnus Dei

Copyright 2025 Brian James McDonald Publishing (ASCAP)
Inspired by these words of William Wordsworth

"Moving about in worlds not realised,
High instincts before which our mortal Nature
Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised:
                      But for those first affections,
                      Those shadowy recollections,
                Which, be they what they may
Are yet the fountain-light of all our day,
Are yet a master-light of all our seeing;
                Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make
Our noisy years seem moments in the being
Of the eternal Silence: truths that wake"

Before The Eternal Silence (Piano)

Somebody Shot The Piano Tuner

Copyright Brian James McDonald Publishing (ASCAP)

Lights & Love (Piano)

Improvisation on an old Rhodes Eighty-Eight
Copyright 2025 Brian James McDonald Publishing (ASCAP)

Improvisation On Old Keys

Piano By The Sea

Murder Mysteries Collection - #2

I Won't Play Another Lick Until I Get A Whiskey

Don't Cry At The Ending, Smile That It Happened

Whatevs

I started composing daily pieces and posting them onto SoundCloud at the beginning of 2013.  By posting daily I am tweaking, experimenting and developing a thought, idea or event in time.  I am endeavouring to show that there is no limit to that creative spark that lies within each of us.  So much of what we do nowadays is about instant return, I am about evolution not revolution (although each month starts with a clean slate).  Join me on my journey to 10,000 (18 May 2040!!!)

Over the years I have found the Soundcloud community to be extremely supportive and encouraging.  It’s great to have a Global Mastermind of musical adventurers.

Thank you!

02 Nov 25 Warning Signs

Graham Casey