NEW collaboration album with the wonderful Ukrainian artist Kateryna.

All music written, arranged and produced by Kevin Bird
Mixed and mastered by Fabio Maiorano

Kateryna - I'm Falling

Anthropomorphic Expressions – The Clouds Laugh 
May 2023
Duration: 2:15
Listen to the Anthropomorphic Expressions Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/bruce-klepper-1/sets/anthropomorphic-expressions
Special thanks to John-Marc Ventimiglia @john-marc-ventimiglia for his highly valued musical input and for creating the “clouds laughing” sound library used to compose this piece.

Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human traits, or emotions to non-human entities or objects. It is considered to be an innate tendency of human psychology. Anthropomorphism is a common way humans perceive and interact with the world around them.

It is easy to forget that you live in the sky - not beneath it, but within it. Our atmosphere is an enormous ocean, and you inhabit it.  This ocean is made up of the gases of air rather than liquid water, but it is as much of an ocean as the Atlantic or the Pacific. You may think of yourself as living on the ground, but all that means is that you are a creature of the ocean bed. You still inhabit the atmosphere like a sea creature does the water.  From the book: "A Cloud a Day" Gavin Pretor-Pinney

Every cloud is unique, while clouds appear in infinite shapes and sizes they fall into some basic forms.
Cirro-form: the Latin word 'cirro' means curl of hair. Composed of ice crystals, cirro-form clouds are whitish and hair-like. There are the high, wispy clouds to first appear in advance of a low-pressure area such as a mid-latitude storm system or a tropical system such as a hurricane.

Cumulo-form: generally detached clouds, they look like white fluffy cotton balls. They show vertical motion or thermal uplift of air taking place in the atmosphere. They are usually dense in appearance with sharp outlines. The base of cumulus clouds are generally flat and occurs at the altitude where the moisture in rising air condenses.

Strato-form: from the Latin word for 'layer' these clouds are usually broad and fairly wide spread appearing like a blanket. They result from non-convective rising air and tend to occur along and to the north of warm fronts. The edges of strato-form clouds are diffuse.

Nimbo-form: 'Nimbus' is he Latin word for rain. The vast majority of precipitation occurs from nimbo-form clouds and therefore these clouds have the greatest vertical height.

For flute, clarinet, bass quenacho, bass clarinet, contrabass clarinet, pipe organ, marimba, “clouds laughing” samples and percussion

Anthropomorphic Expressions - The Clouds Laugh

NEW collaboration album with the wonderful Ukrainian artist Kateryna.

All music written, arranged and produced by Kevin Bird - Mixed and mastered by Fabio Maiorano.

Kateryna - Changing World

Kateryna - You Changed My Heart - Album Version

Kateryna - Sometimes When I'm Blue

Anthropomorphic Expressions – The Flowers Smile
June 2023
Duration: 3:20
Photo by Heidi Schnicker
Listen to the Anthropomorphic Expressions Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/bruce-klepper-1/sets/anthropomorphic-expressions
Special thanks to John-Marc Ventimiglia @john-marc-ventimiglia for his highly valued musical input and for creating the “smiling flowers” sound library used to compose this piece.

If you could travel back to 130 million years ago, you might not be impressed with the earliest flowers.   Those early flowers were small and rare, living in the shadows of far more successful nonflowering plants. It took many millions of years for flowers to hit their stride. Around 120 million years ago, a new branch of flowers evolved that came to dominate many forests and explode in diversity. That lineage includes 99 percent of all species of flowering plants on Earth today, ranging from magnolias to dandelions to pumpkins. 

Later, in six lineages, flowers became more complicated. They evolved an inner ring of petals that became big and showy, and an outer ring of usually green, leaflike growths called sepals, which protect young flowers as they bud.  As popularly used, the term “flower” especially applies when part or all of the reproductive structure is distinctive in colour and form. In their range of colour, size, form, and anatomical arrangement, flowers present a seemingly endless variety of combinations. They range in size from minute blossoms to giant blooms. In some plants, such as poppy, magnolia, tulip, and petunia, each flower is relatively large and showy and is produced singly, while in other plants, such as aster, snapdragon, and lilac, the individual flowers may be very small and are borne in a distinctive cluster known as an inflorescence. Regardless of their variety, all flowers have a uniform function, the reproduction of the species through the production of seed.

For violin, bansuri, duduk, bamboo flute, lithophone, xylophone, harp, bells, double bass, “smiling flowers” samples and percussion

Anthropomorphic Expressions – The Flowers Smile

Lingering Echoes – The Station 
June 2023
Duration: 2:35
Fascinating sonic places that provoke lingering memories. 
Photo of the Old Penn Station in the 1950's 
Special thanks to John-Marc Ventimiglia @john-marc-ventimigliafor his highly valued musical input and for creating the “The Station” sound library used to compose this piece.

The oldest terminal station in the world was Crown Street railway station in Liverpool, England, built in 1830, on the locomotive-hauled Liverpool to Manchester line. The first stations had little in the way of buildings or amenities.  Early stations were sometimes built with both passenger and freight facilities, though some railway lines were goods-only or passenger-only, and if a line was dual-purpose there would often be a freight depot apart from the passenger station.

Many stations date from the 19th century and reflect the grandiose architecture of the time, lending prestige to the city as well as to railway operations.  Countries where railways arrived later may still have such architecture, as later stations often imitated 19th-century styles. Train stations built more recently often have a similar feel to airports, with a simple, abstract style.

Records:
• The world's busiest passenger station, with a passenger throughput of 3.5 million passengers per day (1.27 billion per year), is Shinjuku Station in Tokyo.
• The world's station with most platforms is Grand Central Terminal in New York City with 44 platforms.
• The world's station with the longest platform is Hubli Junction railway station with a platform length of 1,505 metres (4,938 ft) and is located in Karnataka, India.
• The world's highest station above ground level (not above sea level) is Smith–Ninth Streets subway station in New York City.
• Coney Island – Stillwell Avenue in New York City is the world's largest elevated terminal with 8 tracks and 4 island platforms.
• Shanghai South railway station, opened in June 2006, has the world's largest circular transparent roof.
• Penn Station is the busiest train station in the Western hemisphere serving more than 430,000 commuter passengers a day.

For strings, flute, english horn, bassoon, contra bassoon, trumpet, trombone, station sound samples, and percussion

Lingering Echoes - The Station

Kateryna - Don't Let Them Shoot Me Down

Kateryna - Secret Wish

Lingering Echoes – The Cathedral 
July 2023
Duration: 3:50
Fascinating sonic places that provoke lingering memories. 
Photo of the interior of Notre-Dame de Paris 
Special thanks to John-Marc Ventimiglia @john-marc-ventimiglia for for his highly valued musical input and for creating the “The Cathedral ” sound library used to compose this piece.
This is a Guillaume de Machaut, Messe de Nostre Dame remix with original composition.  Guillaume de Machaut (c. 1300–1377), a French composer and poet, composed this piece before 1365. Widely regarded as one of the masterpieces of medieval music, Machaut composed this Mass for the Cathedral of Notre-Dame at Reims.

This is a dedication to all the incredible cathedrals around the world that stand as some of the world's greatest achievements of art and architecture; whether you are believer in religion or a non-believer.  The ancient cathedrals of England, of Northern France, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Germany and Sicily, the Baroque cathedrals of South America, and many individual cathedrals from Italy and other parts of Europe, are among the largest and finest buildings.  Many are renowned for their architecture or their decorative features such as sculpture, stained glass and frescos.

Many cathedrals, because of their large size and the fact that they often have towers, spires or domes, have until the 20th century, been the major landmarks in cities or in views across the countryside. 
Because many cathedrals took centuries to build and decorate, they constitute a major artistic investment for the city in which they stand. Not only may the building itself be architecturally significant, but often houses treasures such as stained glass, stone and wood statues, historic tombs, richly carved furniture and objects of both artistic and religious significance. Moreover, the cathedral often plays a major role in telling the story of the town, through its plaques, inscriptions, tombs, stained glass and paintings.

For organ, alphorn, alpine trombone, english horn, bassoon, flute, tubular bells, timpani, cathedral sound samples, virtual instruments and percussion.

Lingering Echoes - The Cathedral

This EP features five beautiful instrumental piano pieces (with a subtle string arrangement) written and produced by Kevin Bird, newly arranged and performed by pianist Henry Adam Curtis (@henryadamcurtis).

Mixed and mastered by Deny Surya
Track cover artwork by Issey Bird
Cover realizations by Peter Heckmann (@peterheckmann)

Five Little Pieces

Bird and Flower (Instrumental)

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Bird and Flower (Piano Instrumental feat Henry Adam Curtis)

BIRD HOUSE WORLD MUSIC - I am a Hawaii based composer, producer and film maker who loves to create and collaborate with vocalists, musicians, arrangers and engineers from all over the World - in many different languages, styles and ethnic flavors.

Bird and Flower (Piano Instrumental feat Henry Adam Curtis)

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