iPhone recording of my kids singing as they walk to school, with overdubs.

Marching Leafs

An extended ambient version of Erik Satie's Gymnopédie No. 1

This will be an ongoing project for life, probably. Here's how it sounds as of July 26, 2024

Gymnopédie No. 1

KS: What are ten good titles for an 8-minute instrumental piece that is meditative, strongly rhythmic, melodic, textural, layered in odd time signatures, with influences from African, atonal, ambient, and experimental music? The composer's inner images are of looking out the window of a moving train and seeing different but related things go by, including the flashing light and shadow of trestles, and he would especially appreciate quotes from literature or poetry.
ChatGPT: Here are ten title ideas inspired by quotes from literature and poetry that could fit your instrumental piece:
"Footfalls Echo in the Memory"
(from T.S. Eliot’s "Burnt Norton" in Four Quartets)
"The Wind is in Love with the Train"
(inspired by Jack Kerouac’s On the Road: “The wind is in love with the sound of trains”)
"Not All Who Wander Are Lost"
(from J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring)
"A Dream Deferred"
(from Langston Hughes’ "Harlem" in Montage of a Dream Deferred)
"A Shadow Falls on Time"
(inspired by Dylan Thomas’s "Fern Hill": “Time held me green and dying / Though I sang in my chains like the sea”)
"Light Thickens"
(from Shakespeare’s Macbeth: “Light thickens, and the crow / Makes wing to the rooky wood”)
"The Road Unfolds"
(inspired by Robert Frost’s "The Road Not Taken")
"Moving Stillness"
(inspired by Rainer Maria Rilke’s "Go to the Limits of Your Longing": “Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. / Just keep going. No feeling is final.”)
"Through the Veil of Forms"
(from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s "Nature": “The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. His intercourse with heaven and earth, becomes part of his daily food.”)
"Flashing Between Dark and Light"
(inspired by Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness: “We live as we dream – alone...”)
These references weave the imagery of movement, rhythm, and layered experiences, resonating with the musical themes of your piece.

The Wind is in Love with the Train

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