Works in Progress

Compositions written for the broadest instrument.

Piano Stories

Playlist: Works in Progress
Last Updated: September 5, 2025

Status: Inquiries/feedback welcomed.

Goodnight Alone

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Last Updated: September 5, 2024

Status: Inquiries welcomed.

Imagined in response to all that Florida represents in 2024.

Fly Away Florida

Playlist: Works in Progress
Last updated: May 13, 2025

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From the composer: This piano duet imagines the moment we reach our creator and finally understand.

Revealing

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Last Updated: May 12, 2025

From the composer: I wrote "Dharma" because I hope that social media, which has more often been a tool for spreading hate, can fulfill its potential to instead spark a collective awakening. The footage you're seeing (source: Storyblocks) is from the Borobudur Temple Compounds, a Buddhist temple dating back to the 8th and 9th centuries, in central Java, Indonesia. "Dharma" is written for piano using the Lydian scale, which I've heard associated with spiritual ascendance.

Dharma

Playlist: Works in Progress
Last updated: September 28, 2025

From the composer: I can see a cottage along the river, just by the bridge, during a foggy sunrise, as the family inside awakens for another day of the small dramas and quiet beauty that make life worth living. I wrote this piece with that kind of scene in mind, and I hope someone might consider it for the opening credits of a television series.

Cottage By The Bridge

Playlist: Works in Progress
First uploaded: July 21, 2025

From the composer: "Don’t Fight the Apple" is about the pursuit of knowledge that isn’t easy to accept at first, but that ultimately brings peace. I wanted the music to feel a little uncomfortable yet intriguing, with the promise of clarity somewhere on the other side. I think of the tedious process of assembling a mandala, which I understand to symbolize the universe and the path to wisdom. I once watched monks create one, grain by grain. It required incredible patience. Then when it was complete, they let it go.

Don't Fight the Apple

Playlist: Works in Progress
First uploaded: September 27, 2025

From the composer: The song is meant as a reassuring note-to-self, available to read whenever your feelings set off alarm bells. The note is a reminder that your feelings are not a danger.

I Am Not A Threat

First uploaded: September 26, 2025

From the composer: Writing this piece from along Mirror Lake, I thought of the beautiful summers we've spent in the Adirondacks together as a family. Time goes by quickly.

Mirror Lake

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Mirror Lake

Lucas Grindley