You've overcome so many tribulations, why not be optimistic about this one?

Bury My Love

Submission for Soran Leif's "Life's Everyday Soundtrack, Vol 3"

We Can

[MIX.1]
Art by Yoshitaka Amano
https://www.yoshitakaamano.com/

The Rose Is

A dance from a parallel dimension, in a time you didn't know.

Hoovooloo (15 Steps to love) - 15EDO

Spacemen

This should be the final composition included in "The Equal Tempered Keyboard" project, which has been going on for the past 20 years (gasp). In this book, each equal division of the octave between 5 and 20 tones gets a prelude and fugue or two part invention. For 19ET I had written two pieces, but neither of them was a fugue or invention, rather the set was a "Prelude and Rondo". I decided that didn't fit the project well enough, so I wrote this short fugue yesterday (13. Sept. 2020) to replace the Rondo. Some remarks about each tuning will be included in the book. Those are not quite finished yet, but I plan to publish the book by the end of the year.

Fugue in 19ET (2020)

You were my cause and effects and my actions
you were the pause and record you were everything to me
you were the brains in my head you were electric
you had me sussed from the start maybe you know that i felt it too

But you've got no reason to be here now
it didn't go to plan
you've got no reason to be grateful for the sorry mess I am
and it's just my luck to not be there when you come around
so I'll see you brother when I see you in the lost and found.

I am the fly in your punch that ruins your party
I am the bone in your throat that chokes the life out of your body
You knock me down and you're counting up to 10
But I'm not preparing to waste another second getting up again.

FAST-fast - Lost and Found(19EDO)

You’re too strait-laced; you’re too straight faced
I didn’t even find you a threat
Two faced doesn’t begin to cover
The ma(s)king of your false engagement

Your horse’s head, your drinks in bed
They won’t convince me into regret  
That projection reveals your cover
Although you are what you hate, don’t fret
Everyone’s like that

There’s no mass worship now without
coordinated calculation
There’s no mass worship now without
algorithmic triangulation

Popularity Through Brute Force (9 - EDO)

The Walk

This is a piece for Finger Piano, Bass Flute, Cello, and Dry Spring. The Dry Spring is an amplified percussion instrument I made back in the 1970′s for live performance. All the sounds are made with Csound as a sample based synthesizer. Tuning is 53 tone to the octave equal divisions of octave (53-EDO). There are many sections where the pitch is shifted up by one 53-EDO step at a time, almost imperceptively.

Whisper Song in 53 EDO

今手仕世商店のお歌

Composer and producer from Toronto. Previous commissions for Infamous Quests, GuysFromAndromeda LLC, BBC, Universal Studios, Gems TV, MBT, Zoom, BMG amongst others. Available in UK, France, New Zealand, Canada, USA. Will write to spec, fast and original.  skype: sickfiction1


FAST-fast - Lost and Found(19EDO)

James Mulvale - Composer