Steven Schmidt: Helios (A Cycle In Scenes)

Steven Schmidt: Shape Shifter

Steven Schmidt: Sleep Without Dreams

Steven Schmidt: Narrative (for solo marimba)

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Colby Jack (and a 4 track cassette): Electronic: Track 11

Colby Jack (and a 4 track cassette): Electronic: Track 10

Steven Schmidt: life-transcending (2019 version)

Steven Schmidt: Vignettes (for Wind Ensemble)

KHEPRI'S JOURNEY
Khepri was the one of the class of Egyptian gods associated with a particular animal. Khepri was the sacred scarab. The scarab is a type of dung beetle common throughout Egypt.  The scarab's habit of laying eggs in animal dung as well as the bodies of dead scarabs was noticed by the Egyptians. The subsequent hatching of the eggs from this seemingly unpromising material lead to the Egyptians associating the scarab with renewal, rebirth and resurrection. The scarab's habit of rolling up dung into spheres and pushing it across the ground was also noted by the Ancient Egyptians. Khepri was often associated with the Sun and was conceived as a gigantic scarab rolling the Sun before him across the sky. The renewal and rebirth associated with the scarab also came into play here. Khepri renewed the Sun each day before rolling it above the horizon and carried it safely through the other world after sunset to renew it the next day. Khepri was variously represented as a scarab, a man with the face of a scarab and a man whose head was surmounted by a scarab.
BAKHA
The sacred bull of Hermonthis in Egypt, and an incarnation of Menthu, a personification of the heat of the sun. He changed color every hour of the day.

Steven Schmidt: Khepri's Journey 1. Bakha

LIJAKWE BATHING
Lijakwe is the most beautiful woman of the Marshall Islands. She was so beautiful she had to live on her own at the edge of the lagoon in Ebon. When she bathed alone in the lagoon, the sky turned the many colors of sunset. When it does, people used to say, "Lijakwe must be bathing."

Steven Schmidt: Khepri's Journey 2. Lijakwe bathing

ANSHITSU
A Japanese hermitage for a solitary Buddhist monk. The lonely traveler should be wary of asking for shelter there at night, for it may happen that the gloomy figure who opens the door is only the ghost of the monk who once lived there.

Steven Schmidt: Khepri's Journey 3. Anshitsu

HRIMFAXI'S MANE
In Norse myth, Nott is the personification of night, and the daughter of Narvi. Nott was married three times and with each husband she had one child. Her first husband was Naglfari, and their son was Aud. Her second husband was Annar, father of Earth. Her third husband was Delling, the personification of twilight, father of Dagur (Day). She and her son were given horse-drawn chariots by the gods and were placed in the sky to round the world every two half-days. Notts chariot is pulled by the horse Hrimfaxi ("frost-maned") which covers the earth with dew early in the morning.

Steven Schmidt: Khepri's Journey 4. Hrimfaxi's Mane

Steven Schmidt: Refractions 3

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