Trying out my 18th century self for size.

Procession of Fools

So Mote It Be

Joy To The World

Peaceful Thoughts

The Violet Hour

Abbots Bromley Horn Dance (Trad. Arr Christian Bodden)

When my father died he left a large collection of manuscripts, with a vast number of transcriptions of carols, dances and processionals, folk tunes and the like.  I have been slowly working through transcribing some of these and creating new pieces with them - via the wonders of modern sampling technology I can have this orchestral arrangement playing in York Minster...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbots_Bromley_Horn_Dance

Abbots Bromley Horn Dance

A Beautiful Bridal Processional for a Joanna Newsom fan.

A.D. 1  (81) by Joanna Newsom

BASKET CASE PROCESSIONAL by Gary Lloyd Noland. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

BASKET CASE PROCESSIONAL

A sketch of a dark overture for a retro horror game's menu.

MenuOverture (Fami studio sketch)

AFTERLIGHT UTOPIA is a sacred-cinematic oratorio for choir and soloist—a hymn of release and arrival. At 74 BPM in G major, it moves from spacious verses into big, jubilant refrains, with an aria bridge floating over sustained choir “ah.” The ensemble blends pipe organ, piano, strings, and low-brass swells, with a side-snare present throughout: light cross-stick and buzz rolls in the verses, a firm backbeat in the refrains, and a long press roll into the final cutoff.
What it’s about: turning grief to bread, fear to peace—stepping through mercy’s door into a country made of light. Not an ending, but arrival.
For fans of: modern choral/oratorio, cinematic sacred music, soaring opera vocals.
Specs: 74 BPM • Key: G major • Length: ~4:00
Vocal forces: SATB choir (strong lows) + lyric operatic soloist with warm vibrato
Form: Verse 1 → Refrain → Verse 2 → Refrain → Aria (bridge) → Verse 3 → Final Refrain (key lift) → Coda “Amen”
Selected lyric:
“Do not mourn—celebrate this day.
I am free of pain; I am free of nightmares.
Love receives me, wide and great.”
If this resonated, please like/repost and share what you pictured stepping through the afterlight.

Afterlight Eutopia

I have always loved music. I learnt piano as a child and have dabbled with guitar without ever learning it ... until now! I have been in choirs most of my life but have not really delved into making music until the last few years. After initially playing around with Garage Band, I moved on to Logic Pro and that's how nearly all of my music has been produced.

I use digital software, guitar and keyboards to produce my original music. I compose and edit using Logic Pro. Other people's vocals or collaborative vocals for any track really are very welcome! 

I love the interaction on Soundcloud and the comments from other musicians and composers are so helpful and supportive. Keep making music everyone!

If you like the artwork on many of these tracks, please visit www.summerlandsart.co.uk

https://syneseeder.bandcamp.com/album/free-fall
https://audiophyla.bandcamp.com/album/feline-agency

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experiments in fashion
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net label releases:
Corpse Raiser (Treetrunk)
http://archive.org/details/Corpse_Raiser

Encounter at Lazaretto Prime (Ambitention)
http://archive.org/details/Encounter_at_Lazaretto_Prime

Energy of the Multiverse (eg0cide)
https://archive.org/details/eg0_128

Global Economics (kulturterrorismus)
http://archive.org/details/JeffSampson-GlobalEconomics

Mining Obscurity (eg0cide)
https://archive.org/details/eg0_142

Requiem in Shallows (Treetrunk)
http://archive.org/details/Requiem_In_Shallows

Swarm (Vuzh Music)
http://www.vuzhmusic.com/releases/swarm.html

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

If you're on SPOTIFY please follow me at SUSAN HAAS. You'll have all the up to date recordings there. I'm a professional harpist in the Austin TX (formerly Seattle, WA) area playing classical music and almost "everything else" including soft rock, latin jazz and video game theme music. I post samples according to client requests for them to hear online when they cannot make it to my studio in person. If you are looking for the classical tracks go to earliest pages.
Please visit www.soloharp.com for booking information and contact page.

Producer of mainly instrumental tracks, both electronic and analog, in a range of styles.

Not actually safe. Not really an inspector.
I'm compelled to make these tunes, so sharing them makes it less of a waste. 
Mostly contemporary piano stuff, but there's a few other things in here.

This is my personal soundcloud for listening, posting scoring experiments, reposting and hosting  audio snippets and samples in relation to www.christianbodden.co.uk.

Basically stuff that is not directly social media for any of my specific projects.

New tracks tagged #processional