Most amazing...Congratulations you two! 😍💐💐💐💐💎💎💎💎💎🔝🔁🙌🏻😇🌞

I am so delighted to share this playlist of beautiful music created by some of my dear SoundCloud friends and myself. 

May it calm heart and soul, uplift, inspire and embody something of the Peace one discovers upon realizing that heaven is not far away, but right here where we are, transcending all the disturbances and vicissitudes that distract us from knowing its wonder-filled all-encompassing nature.

Heaven on Earth

Aerial Dance

May you inJOY.


© Gary Courtland-Miles 2021
℗ Gary Courtland-Miles 2021

A Song of Spring

I want to try to get a natural and relaxed sound without clutter. The flowing guitar (arpeggio) supported by  double bass and lot of the melody interest is also in a higher bass register.  Lots of acoustic tones. Subtle drum beats give movement and push.  Sometimes more is less?  What do you think?

Light On A Stream

My final project for Orchestration 101 at Berklee Online. Enjoy!

Winter Solstice

First Snowfall

River

En ce début d’année je dédie cette aubade à ma délicieuse et charmante épouse.
At the beginning of the year I dedicate this aubade to my delicious and charming wife.
Written with Notion 6, realized with Logic Pro
Strings : VSL Elite strings
Choirs: Soundiron Requiem lite
Oboe d'amore : V.S.L
Guitar : Amplesound AGL
Accordion : Logic Pro

Aubade en Fa (Aubade in F)

The Wheel of Life, the Wheel of Fortune - an endless succession of life and death, rebirth and suffering... Their rotation cannot be stopped...

I invite you to listen to my piano improvisation "Wheel of Life".

Watch the video version on my YouTube channel:
https://youtu.be/8E9ru3gGQIU

The sheet music of some of my compositions can be downloaded from my website https://pianoimprovictor.com/
 Some new works are available on  https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/publishers/victor-birkan-sheet-music/3028943?isPLP=1

Wheel Of Life - Improvised Piano Piece

Only You

Download

Vorsichtiger Start in eine musikalische Reise mit Xiao (Gitarre) und Billy (Säge) als Intro zur Vernissage von Antje Lutz www.antjelutz.de im Mai '24

Intro zu einer Ausstellung

Video

Snowlight

New collaboration with Echosonica. When Elena showed me her beautiful piece of piano, I immediately felt my feet were leaving the ground and I just wanted to fly away...
https://soundcloud.com/echosonica/walk-the-sky-musicar-echosonica
Piano : @echosonica
Orchestrations : Julien Morency
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIe2TZ89Vl8&t=2s
Video by @arcaans

Walk The Sky (Echosonica & Musicar)

Our heartfelt Song to you,  the Heavens, and All of Life.  

This delightful musical/spiritual collaboration unfolded so naturally, organically, and with such ease; the fruit of our mutual appreciation of each other's music over several years on SoundCloud.  In-deed, it was something magical that couldn't and wouldn't be rushed. :)  
So...
When my dear Norwegian friend and vocalist Oddrun Eikli   https://soundcloud.com/oddrun-eikli  let me know that she was really taken with my piano piece `Hymn To The Heavens'  @  https://soundcloud.com/gary-courtland-miles/hymns-to-the-heavens  I jumped at the chance to engage with her and sent the piano track immediately. 😁 Thankfully, she replied that as she had a special feeling for it, that she would love to try. And OMG, did she ever!  The result is a 50/50 collaboration that many listeners have described as 'Stunning'. I agree whole-heartedly.

Several months later, Oddrun wrote again, this time enclosing her Vocal tracks and a rough mix of how it sounded to her as a whole. Needless to say, she totally `blew me away`with the depth and beauty of her creative contribution.  I am still in awe of what she did. Here's what she said about the experience.  

    " I sing from the heart. 
       I have sung again and again until I found my way with the music. 
       It is a meditation, it is gratitude to what was, what is, and what is to come.
       I am so grateful for this journey in your music. 
       It has enriched my life. 
       With your wonderful music and this journey, I feel such joy and  
       tranquillity. W we will be best friends forever.

        I sing in Norwegian. Here is a translation, Gary.

        Only Here
        can I see you
        the way you are.
        Only here
        may the past be (fulfilled).

        I turn and go
        A winter turns to Spring.

        Only here.
     
        Just like that!
                                                       ____________________

So, dear friends...
may you InJOY :-D

And for more of Oddrun`s inimitable work on Soundcloud, go to https://soundcloud.com/oddrun-eikli

Composed and Performed
by Gary Courtland-Miles  ( Piano)  &  Oddrun Eikli  (Lyric and Vocal)

©  Gary Courtland-Miles and Oddrun Eikli  2019
℗  Gary Courtland-Miles and Oddrun  Eikli 2019

*  'Salme' means 'Hymn'  in  Norwegian

Salme: a Hymn to the Heavens - Vocals by Oddrun

Summer's warmth and beauty can't help but awaken in us a deep gratitude for the selfless givingness of our Sun. To express this is well nigh impossible. But may this heartfelt piano improvisation be my little contribution to expressing that shared feeling.

May you inJOY! 

© Gary Courtland-Miles  August 2020
℗ Gary Courtland-Miles  August 2020

A Song to the Sun

Le Navire Argo

Le navire argo (v2)

Impressionist instrumental music that seeks to become a reality. This is by no means a finished product, but rather an audio score that gives an overview. If you are a player, producer or arranger and my music interests you, contact me by email. 

Musique instrumentale impressionniste qui aspire à devenir réalité.  Ce n'est en aucun cas un travail finit, mais davantage une partition audio afin de donner un aperçu.  Si vous êtes interprète, producteur ou arrangeur et que ma musique vous intéresse, contactez-moi par courriel.

Contact : julien.morency@hotmail.com

There's no doubt about it, Music animates my Soul, and as an enthusiastic student of Life and 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 up 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 *+*

Banner Pic- BLUE SKIES ON PLUTO
                       Pluto's atmosphere as seen recently by Horizon Spacecraft

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