This is a weird one!

Part of a new album I've been uploading, featuring compositions written over the last several months of 2021. If anyone can pinpoint what all of these compositions have in common, musically-speaking, put it in the comments - there was a concept tying everything together but I'm not going to reveal what it was, haha.

Cover art created using NeuralBlender.

This album is going to be called "Prohibited Topics," a tribute to the textbook authors and teachers whose work is being disrupted by right wing efforts to stifle education about racial disparity and structural racism in the US. These compositions weren't written with this subject matter in mind, full-disclosure, but the album has now been named in response to this issue and will be dedicated to educators, and to truth, which will win in the end despite efforts to silence it.

Prohibited Topics

21 8 15

The audio here is generated with NotePerformers3 software from a Sibelius score.

These three musical images were inspired by the New England autumn countryside. To create a context for hearing the music, I fashioned a haiku with particular suggestive imagery. The title for each of the three movements is a line from the haiku:

movement 1. (largo)  . . . .  Fall leaves, dawn unfolds 
movement 2. (andante) . .  Wings resound as flocks take flight 
movement 3. (allegro) . . .  Leaves like confetti

This work features the piano as a solo instrument. However, unlike a traditional concerto, the piano and the chamber string orchestra with the harp function like complimentary palettes of sound color. Together they render a sonic painting that unfolds in the patterned musical gestures, shifting rhythms, and vague implied melodic fragments that evolve into fuller themes. 

The score and parts are distributed through Universal Edition: https://www.universaledition.com/martin-schreiner-8247

– M. M. S.

Autumn Vistas - for piano, harp and string orchestra

Bryan Adams meets The Strokes, hanging with U2, and then Stewart Copeland shows up…🕺🏼😎👍🙏😀❤️

Tonight’s The Night

Dedicated to Dr. Santiago Soto Obrador, thanks for everything.

Piece For Piano T

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Open Collab EDM 10

Electric Music

Countryside Astronaut

This is a remake of a very old track we uploaded previously in the original cassette 4-track version from the late 80s. Kept it simply but rerecorded with our better equipment now. It was one of the first songs I ever wrote and I have no idea where the lyrics came from  because I did not grow up in a religious family. 

Image from kristynbrownphoto
TheSaintsProject - A Modern Portrayal of Catholic Saints
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Virgin Mary

Take Me With You

“I am mostly made of scars” she said.

“You spelled stars incorrectly” he replied. 

-Kalen Dion Poetry 

Sometimes I wonder why we live…why all of this?  To live is such a confusing and mysterious endeavour. To fill our time with what? To amass things for what? To create for what?  

Everything we do, is because we have not been given a choice. We were brought here to live from moment to moment…from birth, to old age and then fade away.  Everything we are disappears and yet we carry on in the love we have left behind in the strangest of places…the tiniest of spaces…in the hearts of those we touched. 

So to live is to love…the active sense of love. Love in action, in creation, in sharing, in growing, in offering moments of joy and respite to those we meet along this journey. To smile and laugh and feel the joy of purely being alive…we live for those moments.  

To transform our scars into stars is our destiny…to help those around us do the same, is an even greater blessing. 

Today, I am transforming some scars into stars for myself…and to heal some of the deep wounds inside me. This in turn will resound to those near me and around me…

My blessings are great…I am deeply humbled and crumbled…as I open up to new spaces within and out…my heart cannot contain the gratefulness I feel to everyone and everything around me.  

This music is born of this energy. 

M.

Thank you JCJCJC 😻, for everything.

From Scars to Infinite Stars

From Scars To Infinite Stars

🐳Thank you for your support. It's very encouraging.🪼
🐱I do not use AI in my music.😊
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