Sonic Expressions

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Wormhole

Lyrics:

You got me so high 
I couldn’t close my eyes at night 
Oh no 
You won’t ask yourself why 
I never can say goodbye  
Bye 
To you 

There you are 
My only star 
I always wanna be in your light 
But you shatter my soul 
So cold 
Turn around 
You’re all I need 
Turn around 
You’re all I ever wanted 
All I ever wanted 

Lovely 
Baby 
Hold on 
I wanna make it right with you
Tonight I am all yours 
I’m yours 
Tonight I am all yours 
I’m yours

There you are 
My only star 
I always wanna be in your light 
But you shatter my soul 
So cold 
Turn around 
You’re all I need 
Turn around 
You’re all I ever wanted 
All I ever wanted

Only Star

Intoxicating

Lyrics:

Wipe those tears from your eyes 
There’s no reason to cry all through night 
I just wanted to say that I love the way you smile 
Love the way you smile 
So whatchu wanna do? 
Be happy 
So watchu wanna do? 
See you smiling 

I don’t wanna hear you crying anymore 
For once don’t be so scared 
I don’t wanna hear you crying throughout the night 
Talk to me and you’ll soar 

Think of where you are in time with me 
Your aching heart 
Inevitable 
You should know that you have the option to choose love 
So whatchu wanna do? 
Be happy 
So watchu wanna do? 
See you smiling 

I don’t wanna hear you crying anymore 
For once don’t be so scared 
I don’t wanna hear you crying throughout the night 
Talk to me and you’ll soar

Choose Love

Apologies

Circle The Pit

The first of our songs post-'Broken Hearts' album, using vocoder techniques for a different sound

LYRICS:

Into a polystyrene container on a bench
You threw up all the bile you were trying not to vent
Held onto iron railings and the history they wrought
They drew up from the vial and they stuck it in your heart

They put you on a table in a basement cold and bare
They confiscate your contraband and cut off all your hair
The crack across the ceiling, failing plaster black with mould
No prospect you'll be leaving 'til your body's grey and cold

Polystyrene

June ( The Halfway Month )

The third of our vocoder project tracks, certainly the most like pop music yet.

LYRICS:

We are gonna fly in the fallen sky
We're circling the light in a dreamless high
We are gonna glide when our wings grow tired
We're floating through the night on a dreamless tide

We're gonna fly on down
When circumstance allows
We're gonna circle round
In a search for higher ground

Dreamless

and that's a fact

Time for the sadboi summer tape this project is a remix tape of multiple emo songs from when I was in highschool Rest In Peace to X he is the Goat of SoundCloud

Anxiety and toxins ( depression and obsession spinnmix)

The idea behind this track is to blend Blues chords progression with hard rock electric guitar. Hope you like the rendering. 🙂

The track was made on GarageBand for iOS and mastered on a Mac. I used the phone interface to play the electric guitar.

Hard Blues Cafe

Here now I remember
The embrace that made the embers
And here we all will enter
A field within the center
Of things that you all hate
And things that we both made
But, my soul, rest assured
For I am here to stay for you and I

Will become the new light
To guide
Those we left behind
Shake not the dust
For it is what
We all have lost

Now break not
Remember when you said
That I was the last of my kind
And we used to defend, protect, and honor lives.
Because here I am, I will not yield,
Even if
We are wrapped in cinders








Now I'm on
my knees
for you
You are
My chosen knight
I knew

That when I saw you
With the gore in you
And the honor I knew
The Warrior of Both light and dark
Could save all our hearts

Now break not
Remember when you said
That I was the last of my kind
And we used to defend, protect, and honor lives.
Because here I am, I will not yield,
Even if
We are wrapped in cinders...

Even if we are wrapped in cinders..

I can not breath
Please them breath
I'll save them all
Even wrapped in cinders!

Now here I am, I will not yield
Even if we are wrapped in cinders..


And now
I see
Through the glints
And I become surrounded by
The ember's light, love, shadows and hate
I must protect him and her with my heart
I'm bound by this duty to save
You all

Wrapped In Cinders

Driving synth pop track with a darker tale and optimism

RunAway

Springs Songs (for Tenor and Chamber Ensemble)
Duration: ca. 20'

MOVEMENTS:
I. English Sparrows (Washington Square) (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
II. April 5, 1974 (Richard Wilbur)
III. Done With (Ann Stanford)
IV. The Widow’s Lament in Springtime (William Carlos Williams)
V. Spring Rain (Sara Teasdale)

Performers: American Modern Ensemble; Alok Kumar, Tenor
For More Information: https://robertpaterson.com/spring-songs
Publisher: Bill Holab Music: http://www.billholabmusic.com/composers/robert-paterson/
Purchase Sheet Music: http://billholabmusic.com/store/index.php?keyword=spring%20songs%20-&main_page=advanced_search_result&search_in_description=1
Also available as a version for tenor and piano: https://robertpaterson.com/spring-songs


PROGRAM NOTE
Spring Songs for tenor and chamber ensemble or piano is my third song cycle celebrating the seasons. As with the first two, Winter Songs for bass-baritone and Summer Songs for soprano, this cycle contains settings of poems by various American poets.

Whereas both Winter Songs and Summer Songs end with scenes in New York City, Spring Songs begins with New York: a setting of English Sparrows (Washington Square) by Edna St. Vincent Millay, a poem about a scene that takes place in the morning in Greenwich Village, a neighborhood in New York City where Millay lived in the early 1900s. The second movement is a setting of April 5, 1974 by Richard Wilbur, a poem Wilbur wrote in honor of Robert Frost’s one-hundredth birthday, and I interpret as being about overcoming self-doubt through wisdom, and about understanding the change of seasons, but also a change of mind. The third movement, Done With by Ann Stanford, I interpret to be about death and rebirth. Stanford symbolizes this by a house being torn down and the ground paved over, the now suffocated plant life yearning to break through. The Widow’s Lament in Springtime, the fourth movement, is a setting of a poem by William Carlos Williams. I interpret this poem as a modernist, pastoral elegy that uses images of nature to lament the death of a loved one. The final movement, a setting of the poem Spring Rain by Sara Teasdale, is about a happy memory of a lover brought about by an evening thunderstorm.

Spring Songs was commissioned by Rick Teller for the American Modern Ensemble.

AME ARTISTS
Robert Paterson, Conductor
Alok Kumar, tenor
Grace Law, flute
Nuno Antunes, clarinet
Samuel Z. Solomon, percussion
Geoffrey Burleson, piano
Victoria Paterson, violin
Peter Sachon, cello

The Four Seasons

Spring Songs - V. Spring Rain (Text by Sara Teasdale)

Keeping an eye on the world going by my window

Wormhole

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