An EP conceived during a recent trip to northern Sweden. Fusing field recordings taken from the trip with atonal synth snippets and vocals recorded at home in a way that reflects the vastness and harsh climates of Nordic landscapes.

HOWLER - DE BLÅ TIMMARNA

A humorous and rhythmic piece for trombone, bassoon, and contrabassoon. It is non-tonal and dissonant, cast in an AABB form. The top two voices are in canon.

Dance, Ye Dreary Trolls!

MANIC FEET GEL

made after reading nausea by jean paul sartre

antoine roquentin

In both movements of this quartet, each instrument gets assigned a repeating rhythmic pattern—sequences of notes and rests of equal length (say, all eighth notes). 

The first violin plays a pattern of 11 beats (6 notes, 5 rests), the second violin a 7-beat pattern (4 notes, 3 rests), the viola 6 (3+3), and the cello 5 (3+2). These patterns cycle independently.

One full cycle  takes 2310 beats—the least common multiple of 11, 7, 6, and 5.

But—crucially—beat durations vary.

Indeed, the duration of a beat depends on its density—meaning how many instruments are sounding at that moment (0 through 4). Each density appears a fixed number of times within the full cycle, independent of pattern contents assuming the constraints above. 

The twist: beat durations get adjusted so that each density—whether a silence, solo, duo, trio, or a full quartet—occupies exactly one-fifth of the total time of the movement. Rare textures are stretched, common ones compressed.

Thus the interaction of the parts effects an emergent large-scale rhythm.

Out of millions of possible combinations of patterns, one movement employs the set that yields the most unpredictable overall rhythm (in a precisely defined mathematical sense). The other, the most predictable.

As for pitch: each instrument traces a fragment of the cycle of fifths—in near standard tuning. The quartet plays 17TET, so with the octave divided into 17 equal steps, which makes a "perfect" fifth span 10 steps. Each instrument repeatedly travels through this cycle fragment, alternating between octaves. Individually, the lines sound diatonic; together, they form unfamiliar and highly dissonant verticalities—often stranger than even the most dissonant music in 12-tone systems.

Despite this microtonality, no specialized technique is required. If each player tunes their instrument to a slightly different “A,” then standard fingerings suffice—as long as they resist the instinct to tune to one another.

Waves, Winds, Mind - Mvt. II

Waves, Winds, Mind - Mvt. I

This is part of a project ive been working on that draws inspiration from ethel cain and the sorts.

This is only a tester 

Lust

This track plunges listeners into the heart of a decaying world, a sonic landscape where hope is a fading memory. Dark, brooding synths form a thick, suffocating atmosphere, mirroring the omnipresent oppression of a dystopian regime.

Mind Scammer

** - music by b.duck - be my lover tonight - picture -  naked on the floor - you are married & happy - you just wanted more - i am more - your weekend whore - after you do the dishes - you do me - pretend to be - my loverboy - cold man undercover - lying here naked on the floor - i want you to pretend you love me - and kiss me - kissy kissy - kissy - baby - kissy kissy - baby - cold man undercover - words by b. duck-  to be my lover- in the blue/grey skie - you owe me -  magazine - last night - you own me - my secret lover - cold man undercover - you own me -you owe me - love and pain - lying naked on the floor -produced by b. duck - blue eyed sky - b.duck = b. van de looy (june1980 - now) - **

babyduck - bathroomfloor (org. vrs)

Remember

This is a duet between a flute and an alto flute with guitar accompaniment. It employs an AABCC form and the flutes are in canonic imitation. The music is non-tonal and  the harmonies are rather dissonant.

Pastorale

Heavy steps follow
A body once known
Move through empty places
A body once known
Anesthetized / Numb
No feelings any more
Nausea / Vertigo
A body once known
Moves in circles
Empty space
A body once known
Gnawing bones
Pulsating temples
A body once known
This nothingness engulfs my soul
A body once known
Torn to pieces 
Broken religion
A body once known
This is not
Me
This is not
Reality
Fantasy of death to come
A body once known
The need for touch
The need for life
A body once known
As I slither like an ooze
My mind is slime
A body once known
And as this place 
Becomes a prison
A body once known
No one
No more
Nothing
Remains
Sustaining existence 
Crumbling tones
A body once known
No harmony 
Just noise
For a body once known
Grey skies
No sympathy 
A body once known
Known!
A body once known
Dethroned emperor
No mom 
No dad
Everything glides away
A bullet felt inside my skull
A body once known
Nothing is not
The body rots 
Tides of sand
Entombeds this land
Nothing is all
Where everything
is the same


Inspired by Sartre


The Aliented Body

On the banks of the Buh

seagulls

QUINTET OF PAST REGRETS for harp, marimba, glockenspiel, double bass, and piano by Gary Lloyd Noland (August 8th, 2025)

QUINTET OF PAST REGRETS for harp, marimba, glockenspiel, double bass, and piano

Death Trap final pre-vox

Heat Death Trance Mix

Crow Hill Company's Bridge Guitar Composing Challenge - Take 2...
At the first submission nobody got the brief right, so here's my second try :)
Prompt: Compose 30 – 60 seconds of ‘daytime/reality TV underscore’ using only Bridge Guitar from their free instruments

Went for a more comedy tv show - background score, no melody, only plucks. Tempo accelerates to create stress, pitch-gliding notes adds awkwardness and dissonant chords build up to a complete fail.

Honestly since it's the second take on this i went in veery fast, not much thinking in here ;)

Feel free to tell me what you think about it :) this isn't an elaborate work, just for the fun of the challenge.

Crumbling Bridge

Crumbling Bridge - Crow Hill Company's Bridge Guitar Composing Challenge Take2

Composer, mathematician, visual artist. 
Seeks collaboration with performers and choreographers.

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manikal records is babyduck (hissy dreampop), hexx luna (electronic) & vualin (gloomy 90's artrock). contact: bas van de looy. manikal_records@hotmail.com / +31(0)624337460

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Leleka Orchestara — це лабораторія сучасної української музики. Ми змішуємо фольклорні архетипи, електронні структури та поетичні тексти у звукові інсталяції, що відкривають нову естетику.

Це новий український звук: чесний, сирий, експериментальний на межі слова, бітів і почуттів.

Leleka Orchestara is a laboratory of contemporary Ukrainian music. We mix folklore archetypes, electronic structures, and poetic texts into sound installations that open up a new aesthetic.

This is a new Ukrainian sound: honest, raw, experimental on the verge of words, beats and feelings.

Resides in Portland, Oregon. Grew up in Berkeley, CA. Born in Seattle.  PhD, Harvard. “Gary Noland is one of the great composers of the 21st century.”—JACK RUMMEL, KGNU 88.5 FM, Boulder CO, “...iconoclastic, stylistic potpourri standards of giddy humor, no holds barred soup to nuts and high spirits.”—ROBERT LEVIN, pianist, musicologist, composer, "...a fleet-fingered, ebullient performer ... bright, witty and engaging.”—CHRISTIAN CAREY, SPLENDID MAGAZINE, “...distinctive, inventive ... subversive ... You can hardly be indifferent to Noland’s music and so I would urge you to try it.” —ROGER BLACKBURN, MUSICWEB INTERNATIONAL, “...set in a dizzying harmonic language that loops uncontrollably through a wide-ranging gamut of possible and impossible tonalities ... The general effect is like watching wet paintings of 19th Century musical memorabilia drip into frazzled 21st Century oblivion...” —ALLEN GIMBEL, AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE, “Mr. Noland writes as a ‘time traveler’ in styles long abandoned by most composers as well as styles so new as to not have been imagined but by him. This he accomplishes naturally, convincingly, with originality and true passion. His command of all musical languages and his ability to traverse musical time is nothing less than remarkable. Listen!”—DONALD MARTINO, Pulitzer Prize winning composer, “...mind-bending spiraling of focus which is truly breathtaking ... spectacular...”—CHARLES AMIRKHANIAN, composer, sound poet & radio producer, “I'm amazed at your harmonic skill. Haven't seen or heard anything like it from any one else—except yours truly—certainly not from your generation. It falls somewhere between Strauss and Mahler. Especially like how you are able to slip in and out from the tonal to the atonal—or near atonal...”—GEORGE ROCHBERG, American composer, Pulitzer Prize finalist, “...court jester to the classical establishment...”—PAYTON MACDONALD, AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE, “...florid and juicy...” —RICHARD BUELL, THE BOSTON GLOBE, “...an incredible aural web ... a great ostinato of American kitsch. Sul pont never sounded so good.”—RUSSELL STEINBERG, composer, conductor of the LOS ANGELES YOUTH ORCHESTRA, “...I am bowled over by the expertise of your music: you use certain elements from the 19th century and from jazz, etc., and just at the moment when I am about to say, OK, what else is new?, you do a number of things, such as speeding up, becoming wildly dissonant, modulating to a distant continent, stopping completely and throwing some kind of total surprise ... you seem to know exactly when to do what and how much. I don’t know anybody else who can do it!” —ANDREW IMBRIE, American composer, Pulitzer Prize finalist, “... remarkable stuff...”
—MAX MORATH, American ragtime pianist, composer, actor & author, “...a loony composer from Oregon...” —MAX SHEA, WMUA 91.1FM, Amherst, MA, “Gary Noland is one of those 21st Century composers seeking to forge a new aesthetic based on older models that do not traffic in serialism or minimalism ... Zany waltzes, ragtime riffs, chorales, toccatas, and much else romp and tear through these depictions of superheroes and villains from his ‘chamber novels’; other pieces spoof serial music ... to grand operas ... and Jewish guilt.” —JACK SULLIVAN, AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE, “...Paranoid Ravel...”—ALEX DUNN, KZSU FM90.3, Stanford, CA, “...It’s a romantic romp, rhythmically robust yet melodically flirting with the nostalgia of cabaret, minus the sleazy diminution of spilled drinks and smelly ashtrays. Its elegance recalls Elgar, and the serious sides, a synthesis of those strange bedfellows Schubert and Ives. Composers hate it when their music reminds you of someone else’s, but writing within a tradition, Noland has incorporated divergent styles that, woven together, work. Cosmopolitan without snobbery, it’s intelligent, pleasurable and convincing.” —ROCKY LEPLIN, THE BERKELEY VOICE

Email: mark_parr@hotmail.co.uk

Hi. I'm a Production Music Composer / Musician based on the South Coast of the UK

I write music for TV / Film / Advertising etc. 
My music has been aired on numerous TV channels including CBS, Amazon Prime, Apple Plus, MTV, VH1, Foxtel, Hulu, Vudu and many more.

If you are interested in licensing any of my music, please contact me.

I play the guitar, bass and piano.

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Thank you. 

Peace and love to all.

Cyberprog/Retrofuture/Dadavantgarde.

Forgotten influences (Canterbury scene, early XXth classical, cheesy fusion). 

Failed classical studies: grandeur of European culture.
10 years in the US: land of superior show business and decadence.

"Nous travaillons en fonction d'une douleur et d'une joie intemporelles, pour résoudre l'énigme fondamentale de l'espèce humaine." [Christian Vander]

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