Absolutely wonderful and brilliant. Very well inspired, bravo !

Very nice piece with beautiful transitions and developments. A bit like the early Genesis.......

Sticking to it really paid off, Pete. Listeners are quite right about Floyd...loved their songs...and loved this one, too.

This composition is amazing! Beautiful guitar playing, nice soundcapes and synths and nice vocals :)

Excellent, tasty orchestration... perfectly supports the story telling 😎

Crash

My first songwriting effort of 2024 with vocals, piano, bass, percussion, strings and clarinets. 😊🎶🎵🎼🎤❤️

Thank you to my lovely Sander for this fine mastering job. @wane-of-summer for his wonderful music. ❤️😊❤️

Answer to my prayers

Had my lovely acoustic piano tuned recently so felt like it was time for some song writing there. 😊❤️

Thanks to my lovely BF Sander for this wonderful mastering job. @wane-of-summer for his fabulous music 😊🎶❤️🎵🎼🎹

Love Me And Leave Me (with acoustic piano)

This is a follow-up posting of a wonderful collaboration Dan-T had invited Debra and I to contribute to.  Dan had posted it well over a year ago as a backing track to a dramatic French Fantasy production.  With his kind permission after the delay of a year, I wanted to post this as a celebration of a different kind of drama--life awakening from a long winter sleep. Dan's synths are sweeping and epic, Debbie's playing is measured and elegant like the words in a fine poem.  The Requinto guitar has a sweet voice sounding a bit like a Celtic harp to round out the production.  Hear more of Dan's French Fantasy (French Fantastic:) @dan-t-3, and Debbie's superb and poetic playing @debra_buesking.

Awakenings; Dan-T, Debra Buesking, David Dunham

Victorian Dance

In The Clouds

'A Cupboardful Of Hats' A gentle and melodic Soundscape featuring my old friend Andy Grossart on Bass. His bass line on this piece is worthy of  track on it's own and when I first heard it, I was visibly moved. So thank you Andy for this gem.

A Cupboardful Of Hats

A Cupboardful Of Hats (Feat. Andy Grossart)

Hello friends and Music lovers,

Here's my latest piano exploration/improvisation. 

Molecules are as large a part of everything as notes are to Music. They're present, they have unique characteristics, and in total, give form to all things. And they flow. They also transform and create other things, just like the notes we play do.  What a wonder-filled unfolding process.

So... here's to the magic of Molecular Flow!
 
 
 May you enJoy.

© Gary Courtland-Miles 2024
℗ Gary Courtland-Miles 2024

Molecular Flow *

This song should take you on a rollercoaster of emotions as it contains a hopefully infectious mix of styles and sounds. A few quieter moments, a little touch of tango, some funky grooves and much more. It was a lot of fun working on this track and I hope you can feel it. Let yourself be surprised by the different facets of this song and simply enjoy the variety!

DAW Cubase
Halion Sonic 7
Groove Agent SE
Retrologue 2
Padshop 2
Transverse
Hybrid Hit
Kalimba
Verve
Taped Vibes
Vibrant
CRE8 Wave Engine
Apollo

110 bpm

Picture by Victoria on Pixabay

just fun

Art Expressed in Music – Leonardo's Genius	
April 2024
Duration: 3:30
Listen to the Playlist: soundcloud.com/bruce-klepper-1/sets/art-expressed-in-music-i
Painting: Mona Lisa
Leonardo da Vinci (April 15, 1452 to May 2, 1519) was an Italian painter, draftsman, sculptor, architect, and engineer.  His “Last Supper” and “Mona Lisa” are among the most widely popular and influential paintings of the Renaissance.  His notebooks reveal a spirit of scientific inquiry and a mechanical inventiveness that were centuries ahead of their time. He is renowned in the fields of civil engineering, chemistry, geology,  hydrodynamics, mathematics, mechanical engineering, optics, physics and zoology.  As an engineer, Leonardo conceived ideas vastly ahead of his own time, conceptually inventing the parachute, the helicopter, an armored fighting vehicle, and the use of concentrated solar power. The unique fame that Leonardo enjoyed in his lifetime has remained undimmed to the present day rests largely on his unlimited desire for knowledge, which guided all his thinking and behavior.  As an artist, Leonardo considered his eyes to be his main avenue to knowledge; to Leonardo, sight was man’s highest sense because it alone conveyed the facts of experience immediately, correctly, and with certainty.  He used his superb intellect, unusual powers of observation, and mastery of the art of drawing to study nature itself, a line of inquiry that allowed his dual pursuits of art and science to flourish.  In Florence between 1500 and 1506, Leonardo began work on the “Mona Lisa”.  The “Mona Lisa” set the standard for all future portraits. The painting presents a woman revealed to likely have been Lisa del Giocondo, the wife of the Florentine merchant Francesco del Giocond.  The picture presents a half-body portrait of the subject, with a distant landscape visible as a backdrop; the expressive synthesis that Leonardo achieved between sitter and landscape has placed this work in the canon of the most-popular and most-analyzed paintings of all time. The sensuous curves of the woman’s hair and clothing, are echoed in the undulating valleys and rivers behind her. The sense of overall harmony achieved in the painting—especially apparent in the sitter’s faint smile—reflects Leonardo’s idea of the link connecting humanity and nature, making this painting an enduring record of Leonardo’s vision and genius.  In 1517, a drawing by Giovanni Ambrogio Figino depicted an elderly Leonardo with his right arm wrapped in clothing. The latter, in addition to the record of an October 1517 visit by Louis d'Aragon, confirms an account of Leonardo's right hand being paralytic when he was 65, which may indicate why he left works such as the “Mona Lisa” unfinished.  He continued to work at some capacity until eventually becoming ill and bedridden for several months.  Leonardo only produced about 20 paintings in his lifetime. It is estimated that Leonardo produced between 20,000 to 28,000 pages of notes and sketches spanning across 50 different notebooks about work related to whatever topics that interested him – painting, engineering, philosophy, warfare, engineering, physiology, landscape, proportion, perspective, geography, and geology.... Unfortunately, Leonardo's interests were so broad, and he was so often compelled by new subjects, that he usually left projects unfinished.  Leonardo died at Clos Lucé on 2 May 1519 at the age of 67, possibly of a stroke.   Leonardo was described as lamenting on his deathbed, full of repentance, that "he had offended against God and men by failing to practice his art as he should have done”. 
For virtual voices, piano, marimba, tubular bells, virtual instruments, sound effects and percussion.

Art Expressed In Music - Leonardo's Genius

On the 25th February 2016, an idea came into my head for a song involving the concept of a lighthouse in space. What would it be like to be in the back of beyond, all alone in deep space? 

Lyrics followed and then musical ideas involving orchestration to denote the expanse of space and incorporating strings and  brass mixed together with synthesizers and electric guitar.

Just over 1.5 years later (560 days), this 16.5 minute monster is finally ready.  This track has acted for me as an apprenticeship in recording, mixing and simple mastering. The original rough demo was completed by December 2016 but final construction only truly began in January 2017, with everything being re-recorded. 

The track itself isn't particularly lyric heavy, with instrumental sections very much in keeping with a larger Prog Rock piece. Since it is quite long at 16.5 minutes I suggest listeners settle down and hopefully lose themselves  in Deep Space for a while.  :-)

There is now a YouTube video to go with this track.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVP11ZIN1f4

The story of the Lighthouse Keeper will continue with four more songs planned. Check out the project website or Facebook page for more details.

** A big shout- out to Len Rice for guidance and encouragement during the recording of this  track. (You taught me how to listen critically and got me up to speed with some technical stuff) Cheers :-) 

https://soundcloud.com/lenrice

Lighthouse Keeper

A collection of songs, instrumentals and orchestral pieces charting my adventures in home studio recording and production.  All original compositions using voice, acoustic and electric guitar (sometimes using altered tunings), bouzouki, low and high whistles and MIDI instrumentation. 

I'm also using VST instrumentation to create classical compositions and integrating orchestral sounds into my songs and instrumentals.

Links to various instrumental projects and other Social Media links are available below.

My Eclectic Music Connections repost thread is here

https://soundcloud.com/mrbouzouki-repost

Lighthouse Keeper

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