Ambient

Calm

Easy Listening

Winter

Everything

Piano

Classical

What is the Christmas Mouse's secret?  Multi-layer original composition performed by me on guitar and old Yamaha keyboard and my own vocals.

Christmas Mouse

Improvised multi-layer using Korg Radias and Kaossilator.  Imagine trying to balance a bunch of chairs on a frozen lake...

Stable

Improvisation multi-layer old Yamaha keyboard.

Second Soul

No whales were harmed in the creation of this song.  They are not real whale sounds, sorry.  Improvised guitar and old Yamaha keyboard through an effects pedal.  Whale sounds were keyboard in portamento through the effects pedal.

Sad Whales

Colonial Williamsburg... I miss it occasionally.  This is a multi-layer improvisation of the classic carol of the bells, using my old Yamaha keyboard, guitar, and a guitar effects pedal.

Rock Of The Bells

Improvised song on my old Yamaha keyboard through a guitar effects pedal.  The coolest part of this song is the unintentional recorded feedback matched up with what I was playing.

Standard

Pick up your clothes off the floor.  Multi-layer improvised song with me playing harmonica and keyboard.  My girl improvised on alto saxophone.

Purple Shorts

Multi-layer improvised song with me playing my old Yamaha keyboard, guitar, and Akai EWI4000s.

Latin Kitty

Collaboration project between Bismuth Sky and NOSTRUMUVA.  If you put a neodymium magnet between two bismuth ingots and then put another large magnet above that, you can get the small magnet to float because bismuth is diamagnetic.  Bismuth Sky provided the bass track and I improvised Akai EWI4000s over top of that and ran it through audacity to provide more of a drone ethereal sound.

Diamagnetic

Multi-layer improvised, me playing Korg Radias keyboard (mostly as drums), me playing Akai EWI4000s in Flute mode, and me playing alto Saxophone.

Magnesium

Improvised Korg Radias keyboard, then I went back and improvised chromatic harmonica over top of it with an echo pedal.

By A Thread

I was trying to make a song that made me feel cold.  Duet improvisation in one take.  My girl is the one playing the handpan, with me on Korg Radias keyboard.

Ice Cave

Somewhere Under The Rain Cloud

I was trying to make a relaxed dissonant melancholy song, in the style of Erik Satie (think Minecraft).  This was improvised on my Korg Radias and recorded to my BOSS RC 50 Loop Pedal.

Regular Day

Ok, so you see these clouds?
Imagine them slowly descending into the ocean below.
That's all you need to think of.

Clouds Falling Down

Here is the >>>FREE SHEET MUSIC<<<: https://musescore.com/user/93785209/scores/22956730

Watch a video of the sheet music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xn1DtLIISJU

Watch a practice improvisation session of this song from early on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKq913BXT8g

Resilient

I was inspired by Claude Debussy for this song.

Encouraged

I had just composed my song "Resilient", and in the album cover, I had made a tiny little dandelion on the bottom right where it was brighter, the point being the dandelion survives regardless of the crumbling buildings, etc.  And I wanted to get back into some symphonic music.  This is supposed to be the mind of the dandelion.  It is not technically an overture of course.

Dandelion Overture

One of my listeners (Avid from Singapore) said they loved the ending of my "Lost Window" dubstep song, so I expanded on that ending to make a longer version of that ending.

Here's the original improv video for the concept while I was very tired: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HrLpqBfKhI

And here is the dubstep version with the calm part at the end:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YnRY31O-P8

Sad Window

So I did actually take some professional music composition classes at the Swift Creek Academy for the Performing Arts in Chesterfield, VA.  But since 2009, my primary music theory teacher is my girl, who introduced me to Holst.

Morning Frost

The image artwork for the album cover and waveform were created in watercolor by Rachel Rodgers, my sister.  This piece is a classical drone/ambient, where I attempt to have a constant lower drone noise behind a high pitched dissonant lead.

The accompanying video with effects is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2eHw1aFOP0

Watercolor Life

So this is an avant-garde dubstep song.  I began with TEOP1 and intentionally tried to be slightly offbeat and a bit random and to drag it out, then get it all to come together and pull out a primary melody with an electronic lead ("dimension" instrument on TEOP1) with a few piano sections ("pianistic" instrument on TEOP-1) and add in dub bass.  I went through 2 cycles of adding it to the 4-track on TEOP1, copying it out from COM to laptop, filtering in Audacity, copied it back, added more layers, then back to laptop again.  Normalized to -14dB with -1dB soft limit.  This song represents how I felt in the middle of the night at 3am while soldering random circuits for a supercapacitor experiment I was doing, and likely breathing in too much of the lead solder fumes.

Late Night Garage Experiments

Ambient soundscape of being inside of a heart.  TEOP1 keyboard with multiple really low modulated wumps, then a few lead layers mostly triplets of dissonant 2nds and 7ths, intentionally with no rhythm.  Then simple Audacity cleanup to -14dB normalization and -1dB soft limit.

Inside The Heart

I'm going to start doing some live looping performances on TEOP1 so this is a random practice session that is kind of Jam Band / Scat / Funk.  There is a 4-track on the TEOP1, so I can start out with drums or scat and then hit a key to end the loop, then just keep playing live and kind of overdub onto the other 3 tracks, and then also add in breaks by holding on one of the tracks while playing a B section.  I just live improvised the bass loop and then improvised the organ and keys as I went.  Random mood today, sorry to my dubstep and ambient fans :) This one is weird.

Bow Meow

Attentive

Some basic ambient jamming out on Tidal Cycles with simultaneous TEOP1 keyboard at the same time.  If you want to watch me code in Haskell and play the keyboard at the same time, watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-g_n5ztNvvk

Multitasking

For reasons unknown but time will tell...
Multi-instrumentalist, all types of music, all types of methods.
Occasional collaborations with other artists.
Sometimes I post the sheet music if it's piano.
Lately, my favorite instrument is a TE OP-1 Field keyboard.