Drawn Music is a participatory composition project that occurred at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History.  Visitors created visual art responses to the pieces included in the playlist.  In turn, Lanier Sammons created new pieces taking those responses as inspiration.

MAH Art Works - Drawn Music

Our Songs is a participatory composition project occurring at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History from 6/28 - 7/25. Visitors will be contributing lyrics to the song demos included included in the playlist. Lanier Sammons will curate those contribution into a final set of lyrics for the song, and the song will be developed, arranged, and recorded as part of his Art Works residency at the museum.

MAH Art Works - Our Songs

Pool is a participatory composition project occurring at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History from 6/28 - 7/25. As part of Lanier's Art Works residency, visitors will be contributing sounds, which Lanier will fashion into new pieces.  Those pieces are uploaded here as they are completed.

Pool photo credit: João Batista Campos via Flickr (Public Domain)

MAH Art Works - Pool

Graphic Scores is a participatory composition project occurring at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History from 6/28 - 7/25. As part of Lanier's Art Works residency, visitors will be providing symbols to create graphic scores. Visiting performers will realize these graphic scores.  Recordings of those performances are uploaded here as they are completed.

MAH Art Works - Graphic Scores

A little instrumental composed for KSQD's Story Behind the Story - https://story.fireside.fm/

Inspired by playing with Hunter Rogerson's Wildmother's Dulcimer from Pianobook - https://www.pianobook.co.uk/packs/the-wildmothers-dulcimer/

Bird Honesty (longer)

Kyle Bruckmann, Giacomo Fiore, Dana Jessen, and Michael Straus treat the audience at CSU Monterey Bay as their score.

Recorded and mixed by Adam Pardee
Mastered by Lanier

Loose Can(n)on

An original written a while ago and now recorded in 2025 for the Lonely Hearts Club zine.

For more, Jack says to find him in the 60s.

Written and sung by Jack Sammons
Guitars, bass, and keys by Lanier Sammons
Produced and engineered by Lanier Sammons

Lonely

Wind Down (60x60)

This MIDI demo is a part of the Our Songs project (see the playlist description for more information).  Visitors will be contributing lyrics, and the song will be developed, arranged, and recorded over the course of Lanier's residency at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History.

Soft And Low Demo

This demo is a part of the Our Songs project (see the playlist description for more information). Visitors will be contributing lyrics, and the song will be developed, arranged, and recorded over the course of Lanier's residency at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History.

Wherever We Go Demo

On Demo

This track was composed for as a seed track for Drawn Music,  a participatory composition project (see the Drawn Music playlist description for more information).

Blast Bid Ruins

This track is a part of the Pool project (see the playlist description for more information).  All sounds included in the piece were contributed by visitors to Lanier's studio at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History during First Friday.

First

This track is a part Lanier's Art Works Residency Graphic Scores project (see the playlist description for more information).  The attached artwork is the score, which was created by a visitor to the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History.

interpreted and performed by Lucie Vítková http://www.vitkovalucie.com
record and mixed by Lanier Sammons

Thanks to Josephson Engineering for providing microphones.

Blue Greens - Lucie

This track is a part Lanier's Art Works Residency Graphic Scores project (see the playlist description for more information). The attached artwork is the score, which was created by a visitor to the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History.

interpreted and performed by Lucie Vítková 
www.vitkovalucie.com
record and mixed by Lanier Sammons

Thanks to Josephson Engineering for providing microphones.


Running Scene - Lucie

This track is a part Lanier's Art Works Residency Graphic Scores project (see the playlist description for more information). The attached artwork is the score, which was created by a visitor to the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History.

interpreted and performed by Lucie Vítková 
www.vitkovalucie.com
record and mixed by Lanier Sammons

Thanks to Josephson Engineering for providing microphones.

Olive's Stars - Lucie

Shaped And Measured - Lucie

Lexicon - Lucie

This track was composed for a Drawn Music, a participatory composition project (see the Drawn Music playlist description for more information).  The attached image, inspired by an earlier Drawn Music piece, served as the inspiration for this new piece.

Thanks to Josephson Engineering for providing microphones and to Hill Guitar for providing the guitar.

Boing Buzz

This track was composed for a Drawn Music, a participatory composition project (see the Drawn Music playlist description for more information). The attached image, inspired by an earlier Drawn Music piece, served as the inspiration for this new piece.

Thanks to Josephson Engineering for providing microphones and to Hill Guitar for providing the guitar.



Floats

composed by Lanier Sammons
based on material from Davidovsky's Synchronisms No. 10

Synch

composed by Lanier Sammons
performed by counter)induction

"I was looking back to see if you were looking back at me to see me looking back at you"

Rise Font

The theme music for The Story Behind the Story

Available on KSQD and as a podcast

https://story.fireside.fm/

The Story Behind The Story Theme

Bumper for KSQD, 90.7 FM Santa Cruz

https://ksqd.org/

Squid Surf (KSQD Bumper)

Theme for Physical Kids Weekly, a podcast about The Magicians (SYFY)

https://soundcloud.com/user-367560378

Physical Kids Weekly Theme

Theme for Never Have I Ever Hosted a Podcast

https://nhie.fireside.fm/

Never Have I Ever Hosted a Podcast Theme

Lanier Sammons is a composer, recordist, and educator based in Maynard, MA. As a composer, Lanier’s music often explores ideas like audience interactivity, improvisation, the intersection of popular and classical musics, and the pairing of electronic and acoustic sound. He's also active as a composer of scores for film, radio, and podcast projects.

Please visit laniersammons.com for more information.

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