Here's an easy listening piece, quasi jazz, I guess..

The Spectral Forest 175

Here's an instrumental, There are lyrics, but I haven't found the perfect singer yet..

MOMENTS

Treatise on The Walls = Here is an extended concept piece.

Warning…. this piece is 36 minutes long..  Open your mind, get comfortable.  It took many months of time to complete. Many 12 hours days, other times only 30 minutes a day, cause I got overwhelmed.   a lot of experimentation, and exploration.

This piece consists of several movements..   There are three songs (sort of), sections of ‘sound design’ free form or sound exploration.. A significant of sound manipulation, processing. Hundreds and hundreds of automation commands.  It is also a companion piece to ‘Outside the Wall” which I sent out a while ago..  

I was reading about Pink Floyd and how they were basically a ‘jam’ and later concept band..  I took a similar but further out approach.. My interest was more in breaking some of my ‘music protocols’ Hence the ‘sound design approach’ in a fair amount of the piece (for lack of a better definition).   I relied on the emotional content (to me at least) of the sounds themselves..  So in another way, this is my reference to Beachboy Pet Sounds..  I included a lot of sounds themselves I liked. Working them in, and altering other parts to make them seem more homogenous with their surroundings.
Other sections, I just kept tacking on additional new sections, one after the other..  Often I would spend a few hours or days, on a section.. Only to feel it, didn’t work..  I didn’t throw these away. I just muted the tracks; weeks, or months later, I unmuted them, and then realized that’s were they belonged, I just had to manipulate a few of the newest tracks to settle them in..  It was an epiphany to realize that good ideas came out of my head,  but  usually not in the right order.. 


Singing - Jeanne Otis, Larry Marshal, Suzanne AD
Voice narration - JeanneOtis Larry Marshal, Mark Styles

The Wall intro - Jeanne Otis
Intro solo 
Another Brick In The Wall - Jeanne Otis, Larry Marshal
Re-iteration of Another Brick phrase 
Cellos, oboe,  and Space Debris march
March Solo - bells and guitar
Chorus
Wishful Minds Outer Dimension Beyond the Wall
The Evolution of Walls over Time 
Bridging between Wall Concepts
Manipulation of Thought - The Dark Walls and broader Definitions
The Wall of Summer - (Suzanne AD singing)
The First Wall before Time Began (Mark Styles whispers and the Latin Girls, joined by Larry Marshal)
Transmission line between Walls 
The Realm’s Common Ground (Jeanne Otis and Mark Styles - surfacing of whales for communication)
Looking Beyond the Walls (Jeanne Otis)  - whispers of retired souls
Another plane of existence - Vox from alternate Dimensions - whales cumunication across universe definitions. 
The First Garden of Eden  
Outro -  back to normal time/space

Treatise On The Walls - Short 1273

Here's a happy piece I did a while ago..  It's EZ Funk, with a sense of humor to it..  I used some sound effects in the beginning (Thank you Abbey Road)

The Tangerine Doves

Here's an EZ listening piece.  The main motif is shared between several instruments, with some variation.

The Straits Of Capri

Here is a score -https://app.box.com/s/holl0y1ze1sljkcuga6usqne2pqr5q6l

I started working on this piece, an completely forgot, I did a version 6 months ago. (senior moment - hey I'm allowed).  I tossed in numerous other bits into it, backwards, Beatles patented Leslie Guitar. I have always totally loved the original, but I found my segments of the recorder, bones section, didn't hold up as well when repeated a few times, so each time I went to that section, I had some additional stuff in it.  I threw in other odd bits, much as Beatles did at the end of "All You Need Is Love'.

The Fool On The Hill 594

Here's a piece I did 3 years ago..  Exploring EZ listening, trying to sooth ravaged nervous system, which seems to be so common, as we age, and still try to take the world seriously. I built a sound palette using 'comfort food' sounds..  This way the song was already half way there.  I've been interested in the psychological impact of the sound of particular instruments.. I started with the premise there were several instruments in the conversation, each with a similar attitude, but slightly different point to add (specific motifs for each)..  

Score - https://app.box.com/s/c7a9jatqjpxq754qegxq

The October Sky

Pop with a hint of Reggae in it.  This is a fantasy voyage to the Caribbean.

Island Dreams

Sea Of Tranquilty

Ez listening

Score - https://app.box.com/s/oaogfxcgeuqiumv6wgocli5lnoci79gi

The Sunflower And The Dragon Fly

I am a musician, songwriter, arranger and producer.

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