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A beautiful evening raga type of thing...

As She Turns into the Night Sky

Like A Bird

used some 12 tone compositional techniques set it in a jazzy kind of place....

chaos & order french kiss

original piece. wait for the lyrics....,
The lyrics came quickly, purely as a poem. No melodic influence. When I decided to make a song I took a totally prerecorded, unrelated piece and made up the melody and laid the words in...  a perfect fit.

data boy

where

I took most of the lyrics from a song not completed called "Rehab from Samsara." This song celebrates my getting to use Vienna Symphonic Library in Propellerhead Reason. Cello, viola and two violins. Also, used VSL acoustic bass and jazz drums. Acoustic rhythm guitar on my Taylor. One voice track. Pitch editing is my saviour for my horrid voice.

What to Do

what to do

12 tone techniques applied to bass line. The rest is harmonized freely.

Lingpa

Valunia

Peaceful Ape

Doubtless Binds Afar

odd meter, polyrhythmic experimental pretty "out there."

Makin' the Devil Do It

Music! "Don’t worry about saving these songs
And if one of our instruments breaks
It doesn’t matter
We have fallen into the place where everything is music

The strumming and the flute notes rise into the atmosphere
And even if the whole world’s harp should burn up
There will still be hidden instruments playing

Stop the words now
Open the window in the center of your chest
And let the spirits flow in and out.
- RUMI

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James Schlesselman