The Voyage

Inspired by the poem "The Peace of Wild Things" by the American poet Wendall Berry.

When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

The Peace of Wild Things

Fireflies

A signpost appears through the fog to temporarily point the way.

Signpost

A song about the embers flying around during the Paradise fires in California November of 2018. Now available here: https://brianholzgang.bandcamp.com/track/embers  https://youtu.be/_rT76vVBwzc 
https://open.spotify.com/track/2a4TmPpjVTRXocpxBSJUpa

Embers

Impressions In The Light

Watercolor Life

My latest single First Day of Spring. Really excited about this one, my sister and I sing. Listen on spotify here: https://open.spotify.com/track/3fw4ZhyHF3jmQYWNQeoHIj?si=sr8suMtIQfWtTwPlK02dKw

Lyrics:

It’s the first day of spring as the humming birds do sing
and the sun breaks through the sky like shattered glass
now the winter may seem long but the April sun is strong
and the things we thought we knew now come to pass
and we hope for brighter times just as day and night entwine
and we forget our crimes

Now you’ve carried on your sins oh how they must sting
they’re now running of your skin like melted snow
who knew forgiveness was so hard without love and high regard
yet every seed buried deep does come to grow
without sorrow without cries though its to dark for human eyes
standing silent like the truth among lies

And now that you are gone and I am back where I belong
every day that comes to me does seem so long
and I am lonely as can be there’s no one watching over me
every stranger with a promise just moves on
and I’m now a broken thin and echo in the wind
when I was born to be a king

First Day of Spring

First Day Of Spring

Waking Up With Rain

I wrote this piece to try out the new Spitfire Audio LABS Textural Pads library, along with a few other LABS sounds. #labscommunity

© 2020 Roger Hooper Music

The picture in the art work is by one of my granddaughters; the background is from Julian Hochgesang on Unsplash. You can see more of Julian's work here: https://unsplash.com/@julianhochgesang

Ocean Moon

Colours on Grey

Colours On Grey

All sound sources come from different Spitfire Audio LABS instruments

Topographic Forms

I am a pianist and composer in Maine; USA

My album "The Bleak Midwinter" was released October 2016. "A Distant Arcade" was released July 2022.

Thank you for listening!

Signpost

Jeff Chipman