Did this in 2015.  Tweaked the sound and re-uploaded.  Enjoy.

Softly

8-Tracks from my Roland Jupiter-6.

Minimal effects, mainly compression.

Outer Spectrum

Variant Thirteen w/ Mark Newman - Radio Buena Vida 14.04.23

In memory of the partner of a very dear friend.

Songs from the Sunshine Room

Shelley's Song

Coming on Wormhole World, 4 August 2023.

The 1940s and 1950s were a boom time for the creation of industrial, human relations, classroom training and social guidance films in the USA.  Organisations such as Burton Holmes Films Inc and Coronet Instructional Media Inc helped shoot and distribute documentary shorts for a developing post World War II society.  Film subjects were wide-ranging and included zoology, science, geography, history and mathematics, but many had a more social focus and included guidance topics such as dating, family life, courtesy and citizenship.  
Film makers and directors such as Burton Holmes, Ted Peshak and Henry Strauss also recognised a need to provide vocational guidance and inspiration for young post-depression workers.  The film series ‘Your Life Work’, produced by Vocational Guidance Films Inc is one such example, with shorts designed to inform young people about job responsibilities in a variety of careers.

The films sampled here can be found on the Prelinger Archives, an expansive collection of US Cultural History founded in 1983 by Rick Prelinger in New York City. The archive’s goal is to collect, preserve, and facilitate access to over 60,000 "ephemeral" (advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur) films. Many of the films are now in the public domain with physical films now held in the US Library of Congress.  The digital archive can be accessed on the Internet Archive site (archive.org/details/prelinger).

Are You A Quitter?

A kaleidoscopic depiction of my sense of wonder.
Haiku text by fectoper.
Haiku musical theme (initial koto loop) by Eva Grill https://soundcloud.com/eagri1967

Your mind's labyrinths.
Light that shines beyond your eyes.
The Universe blinks.

Haiku recited by an AI voice from https://speechgen.io/. 
No humans were harmed during the process.

My sense of wonder

My Sense Of Wonder

ς๏๔є ๒๏קร

Cats in the Kitchen was originally scored for flute, oboe, meows, purrs, cracked eggs, sliced onions, buttered toast, sizzling skillets, spoons, knives, pepper grinder, toaster oven, pots, pans, draining dishwater, and pretty much everything else in the kitchen "sync." The sound score also features feline duets and trios, cat food crunches, waterdrums, and my partner Charlotte Bell speaking to her beloved cat, Fiona McGee, who sadly passed on shortly after this piece was composed. The flute and oboe playfully dance and weave with the sounds and each other, sometimes in imitation or dialogue with the cats, and at other times cooking up their own fanciful filigree.

Cats in the Kitchen was commissioned for oboist Michele Fiala and flutist Heidi Pintner by Western Kentucky University, through its Provost’s Initiatives for Excellence Fund and the Potter College of Arts and Letters. Their recording was released on Michele Fiala's MSR Classics CD as MS1217 - "The Light Wraps You: New Music for Oboe." It has also been recorded on tuba and euphonium by SymbiosisDuo and released on GAR Music as GAR001.

Cats in the Kitchen is in three movements:

I.	Eggs and Toast
II.	O Sole Meow
III.	Where's Your Mouse, McGee?

Are You A Quitter?

Moray Newlands

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