Walking along the Boulevard du Montparnasse in Paris inspired this quiet rambling piano meditation. Original photo by Colman Jones.

Montparnasse

Diversion #1

Another improvisation on piano, recorded at the Gibraltar Point Center for the Arts on Toronto Island, September 8-9, 2001

Safe Space

A really old piece written for a special person (long gone), this version recorded at the Gibraltar Point Center for the Arts on Toronto Island, September 8-9, 2001 (re-uploaded Aug. 22 with added noise reduction and EQ)


Today

A simple piece first composed back in 1978, in a really old dusty room with a grand piano in Tasmania, Australia, when I last visited there; this version recorded at the Gibraltar Point Center for the Arts on Toronto Island in September 2001

Tasmania

Another in a series of solo piano tracks recorded at the Gibraltar Point Center for the Arts on Toronto Island, September 8-9, 2001, this one an old composition originally written in the early 1980s. Original photo by Colman Jones

Seven Years

An improvisation recorded at the Gibraltar Point Center for the Arts on Toronto Island, September 8-9, 2001. Original photo by Colman Jones

Idle Thoughts

Another introspective piece, recorded September 8-9, 2001 at the Gibraltar Point Center for the Arts on Toronto Island (in between trips to the beach), this based on a improvisation recorded many years earlier.. there is a more produced version coming, but this works well as a solo piano piece too..

Murmur

A short piano improvisation, recorded in 1998, originally as part of a series of pieces designed to accompany the 5-part IDEAS series on CBC Radio I helped prepare, "Antibiotics vs. the Superbugs, or Whose Planet is this Anyway?". This particular track wound up on the cutting room floor, so here it is for your listening pleasure, 13 years later!

Conflicted

Still debating over whether to add strongs, melody, etc. to this, but for the time being, it's just a simple piano piece, hopefully aptly titled

Quietly Thinking

A short improvisation, loosely based on a theme originally composed by Gary Beck for a radio commercial for the company SCICOM, a session I did keyboard parts for, This later recording was done on a beautiful Steinway piano in 1998, as part of a proposed series of background music pieces for a 5-hour CBC Radio documentary on antibiotics I was working on at the time. Thanks to Dave Field for his generous help with the recording setup.

(Sigh) Calm

This brief solo piano sketch from 1998 is probably worth expanding on at some point... I can hear some nice themes and textures that could make this into a fuller piece (which will get posted on my main Soundcloud account)

Strange Beauty

A short piano sketch revolving around a single pulsing note, another simple idea that could use some more overdubs and maybe another section

Pulse

Composer, musician and sound artist, who works as a TV/radio/web producer, takes photographs, and enjoys interacting and collaborating with other creative souls. This is a collection of various solo piano pieces he has recorded over the years. To listen to some of his more complex layered pieces, click <a href="http://soundcloud.com/colman-jones">here</a>, (note: that's his main account he currently uses to follow people from, not this one), or for his collection of odd noises and soundscapes, click <a href="http://soundcloud.com/colmans-odd-noises">here</a>.  
You can also sample some tracks from bands Colman has performed with, namely <a href="http://soundcloud.com/241-2121-the-band" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">241-2121</a> and <a href="http://soundcloud.com/nrg-the-band" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">NRG</a>, while more of his original photography can be found at <a href="http://500px.com/colmanjones/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">500px</a>, <a href="http://colmanjones.tumblr.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">tumblr</a>, and  <a href="http://www.instagram.com/colman.jones/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">instagram</a>. His other interests and passions are chronicled in his posts on <a href="http://twitter.com/colmanjones" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a>, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/colman.jones" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Facebook</a>, and <a href="http://lookwhatcolmanfound.tumblr.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Tumblr</a>

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