Listen to this unusual minute and twenty-four seconds - see if you can tell what's going on here!

Theater of the Mind

Demring i skuggeheimen

Album Project: Cinematic SteamPunk
FUN HOUSE Teaser
Extra cool new music project from ‘Cellist Margaret Maria and Los Angeles film composer, John Massari. 
©2015 Margaret Maria and John Massari

The music and all the possibilities it conjures in the mind is exciting to explore!

'Cello: Margaret Tobolowska
Keyboards, Mallets & Percussion (the band): John Massari

Steampunk is a sub genre of science fiction and fantasy literature, art and music that commonly features some aspect of steam-powered machinery, especially in a setting inspired by industrialized Western civilization during the 19th century.

@margaret-tobolowska
@johnmassari
www.enchanten.com/

CINEMATIC STEAMPUNK: FUN HOUSE (teaser)

composition by Kurt Otto  www. popeye-x.com 1994
notation editing and audio engineering- Steve Wisnoski

Jazz Run

2 Hidden Klownship

Piece for Woodwind Quintet based on familiar nursery rhymes.

PRAM JAM

SET SAIL!

This is the music I made for a university assignment. The assignment was to create an interactive music system using Wwise. In this playlist I will show some examples of the music, and there will be a video up on how the system works in Wwise soon.

Forest layer

This song long ago vested itself passionately within the ventricles of my heart. Brian Wilson hit many home runs, yet something within the shape and structure of "God Only Knows" is so utterly off the beaten path - it's mystical and profound. I'd even liken it to the most "perfect" of all musical pieces: Mozart's "Ave Verum Corpus." 

Is that too far a stretch?

This little solo track of mine from several years ago... I can and will do better and share that with you very soon. Valentine's Day?

One among some of the more atypical approaches I spun around was to play GOK using the figuration from Bach's WTC Prelude #1, which has been, incidentally, used quite famously as a background setting for "Ave Maria" (not to be confused with Schubert's setting). Running Wilson's harmonic structure, voice leading, counterpoint - whatever terminology you prefer - works very nicely in the figuration, and It plays itself, so to speak. Which makes it feel like a gimmick. This true masterpiece of American song deserves better. You dig? 


God Only Knows

Live recording, Mar, 2016
Earl Leaverton -bass
Rick Reynolds-snare drum
Steve Wisnoski- Guitar and Vocals

Mr. Bo

Steve Wisnoski

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