Produced and co-wrote a song long-distance with my friend Johanna Deeb. Full video: https://youtu.be/tNYay1Y75B4

Paul & Deeb - Broken (2021)

Original songs from my band, Mad Apple.

Guitar - Yunus Iyriboz
Rhodes - Garett Grow
Bass - Sean Woodman
Drums - Dan Ogrodnik

Electric Strawberry

Original songs from my band, Mad Apple. Based on a true story. 

Guitar - Yunus Iyriboz
Rhodes - Garett Grow
Bass - Sean Woodman
Drums - Dan Ogrodnik

You Only Love Me When You're Drinking

Original song from my band, Mad Apple. Watch the music video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f47aLJyZxSY

Guitar - Yunus Iyriboz
Rhodes - Garett Grow
Bass - Sean Woodman
Drums - Dan Ogrodnik

Mexico

Free download.

tried to write you a letter
but I stared at the page
I tried to hold you close
oh but I was afraid
you'd find it a cage

tried to tell you I love you
but it was lost in all these thoughtless words I've spoken
so what can I give you
that isn't broken

that isn't broken
that isn't broken

I tried, I tried, I tried, I tried
to show you how I feel
I tried, I tried, I tried, I tried
but there was no appeal
It didn't feel real

I tried
to sing you love song
it came out wrong
all wrong

what is there
after hoping
is gone away
that isn't broken

that isn't broken
that isn't broken

tried to write you a letter
tried to write you a letter
but it's already been said
it's all been said

and it's been said better (broken)
and it's been said better (broken)

it's already been said
what is there I can give you

Aubergine Dream - Broken

Welcome to the Jawshack

Hang drum - Dan Ogrodnik
Voice - Sam Hopkins

Originally for a project for Meryl Murman

Ways Of Remembering

Erica Dawson Comedy - Manifestation Rap

Carter Roy - Fish In The Sea

Levitate

Glitch video remix of a classic scene from Barbarella. Produced with the help of Sam Hopkins and the nice folks over at Flickfeast.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypMWdN3CD1A

George Decay - Excessive Machine (Barbarella Remix)

A sketch of a larger piece, based on Middle Eastern modes (maqamat) which are built on note sets (ajams). This one is largely based on maqam al-rast. 

Rast is a Persian word (راست) meaning "right" or "direct". Rast is regarded as the basic maqam in Iranian as well as in Arabic music, in the same way as the major scale in Western music, though it is rather different from the major scale in detail (the major scale is in fact more like maqam Ajam). Rast features a half-flat third and a half-flat seventh scale degrees.

According to Habib Hassan Touma, maqam rast "evokes a feeling of pride, power, soundness of mind, and masculinity."

Middle eastern Sephardic Jews liken the word Rast to head from the Hebrew word "rosh". Therefore they have a tradition of applying Maqam Rast to the prayers whenever they begin a new Torah book in the weekly Torah portions (this occurs approximately five times a year as there are five books in the Torah).

Rast

Variations on a theme with structured improvisation, performed by a quartet too good to describe in words: Mona Tian, Yu-Ting Wu, Andrew McIntosh and Erika Duke-Kirkpatrick.

Lazybones (for string quartet)

Paul Matthis - TKP - The Dream (Izela Instrumental)

Performed by Izela

Rhythm is a maksoum modified for 5-meter

Trains Keep Passing - Main Theme In 5 (Izela Instrumental)

An original setting of my Syrian grandfather Ali al-Jundi's poem "Trains Keep Passing." Translated to English by Lahab al-Jundi. Mode is mostly bayati with some deviations. 

Strings by Elizabeth Baba
Oud by Yunus Iyriboz
Percussion by Dan Ogrodnik

Trains Keep Passing (Main Theme) Pt. 1 Of 3

Vox and Lyrics by Erica Dawson for the web series Kooky Cookin'

Video here: https://youtu.be/e7omVqt3EN0

Erica Dawson Comedy - Quesadilla Rap

Theme from Ganryu Island

For voice, banjo and pedals. Performed by the composer.

To write a song
To write a song, to hear
A universe appear
Where once was still

To write a song
To know you’ve taken something deep inside
And from it made a little point of light
It’s such a thrill

To write a song
To write a song
And then to hear
The whole world sing along

Asterozoa – I. Autotomy (To Write A Song)

They all sound different. I'm also https://soundcloud.com/neonexdeath

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