Year of Music: May 17, 2025

Solo Piano.  Created in Real-Time at the Midwest Music Conservatory, St. Louis MO.

Year of Music: May 19, 2025

This is a three-voice canon for solo piano. It is both non-tonal and unabashedly dissonant. Its binary form features the theme heard against itself in retrograde motion in the A section and then inverted and against itself in retrograde inversion in the B section.


Canon for Solo Piano

My Angel

The thing that looks out through my eyes will carry on forever -
My body’s just its visual depiction.
Neither different, nor the same - in this there is no contradiction -
And yet there is one’s death, which seems to sever

The connection one observes between the “body and the soul”,
Which seems like an intuitive conclusion,
But eventually reveals itself as only an illusion, 
Which one is hardly able to control,

Since the inner and the outer seem as if they’re really two,
A notion we’ve all had since we were born -
Babies are all dualists, who believe the body’s worn
Like clothing, which surrounds the real you.

But what if brains and bodies are just simple illustrations, 
Just images, which fin’lly are unreal?
Pictures which convey the things which spirits think and feel,
That in the end are just hallucinations

Of what’s more fundamental - the awareness that’s behind
This ghostly dance of fleeting apparitions -
Which seem as if they’re “physical”, but are just suppositions,
Resulting from their being so well-aligned - 

Like reflections seen in mirrors which will suddenly disperse,
And seem to disappear into the air -
Like the way in which the moon when not observed’s not really there -
Like the fate of all my insubstantial verse.

If the body’s just a picture, well then, what becomes of me?
Where will I be when I up and die?
Exactly where my atoms are, in sea and earth and sky! 
Where finally of my ego I’ll be free.

And when that time arrives, this troubled, sad, and lonely wave
Will once again return into the ocean -
That vastness all-encompassing, of which we’ve little notion,
Which says to me that everything that they’ve


Been telling us since infancy were bromides falsely spoken -
That all the things that felt like me will find
They’d been a petty nightmare in a universal mind,
From which I will have finally awoken.

And when that strange, unearthly calm descends...

Two slightly detuned pianos playing the same notes together at the same velocity with prominent use of the sustain pedal.

At The Piano (18-05-2025)

Even Now 274 (c) sherry steiner 2025
solo piano improvisations
Neoclassical
sherrysteiner.com/pianoworks/
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcoo…si=qSwCid-O9Po7ALiR

Even Now 274

Even Now 275 (c) sherry steiner 2025
solo piano improvisations
Neoclassical
sherrysteiner.com/pianoworks/
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcoo…si=qSwCid-O9Po7ALiR

Even Now 275

Created in Real-Time at the Midwest Music Conservatory, St. Louis MO.

Year of Music: May 20, 2025

Year of Music: May 25, 2025

The Year of Music project began in May 2011  there has been a new musical creation posted each day.  Each new piece is created in real-time.   The project is currently in its 13th year.  To date, there are over 4700 "Daily Doses" in the project.

Richard’s live performances take audiences on a journey away from the busy world and into a calmer, less chaotic mental and emotional environment.  Drawing on his classical training, jazz and pop familiarity, Richard creates music thru an improvisational process.  His music has been called a soothing elixir for the soul, mind and body.

In 2016, composer/contemporary pianist Richard Carr moved to the Monterey Bay area of California after living in his native St. Louis area since 2005.  Richard spent 10 years working as a pianist in the night clubs, hotels and restaurants of the French Quarter of New Orleans prior to Hurricane Katrina.  He has released twenty-fiven solo albums and one collaboration in the contemporary instrumental /new age genre.

Aware of the meditative quality of his music, Richard has been exploring the healing side of his music.  Working in the holistic community of St. Louis, Richard developed the I AM Creative Sessions. These sessions are personal sessions in which Richard creates music for the client’s intention or focus.  In essence, he creates a soundtrack for the intention.
  
Currently Richard's electronic keyboard set-up includes Kurzweil PC3x and PC4x,  StudioLogic Numa 2-88,and the Roland boutique synths JP-08 and JX-03.

www.sherrysteiner.com
https://www.youtube.com/@sherrysteiner938

British musician, composer, arranger, and sound designer hailing from Cardiff, Wales.

2024 marks the beginning of a new creative foray in my musical journey, expanding my virtual studio tech plugins from Logic Pro X to incorporate Omnisphere, Spitfire Audio, DecentSampler, SoundPaint, Native Instruments, LoopCloud, GoranGrooves, Valhalla, PolyChrome DSP, Clark Audio, TAQSIM, 8Dio, Insanity Samples, Arturia, u-he, various internet wav files, live recordings, YouTube and Spotify converted mp3, in order to create new music and push forward into new terrain, blending contemporary cinematic composition, sampling, and sound design.

https://open.spotify.com/user/daniel-phillips-music-lover/playlist/2yrVCXDsHjRKe5KHPNtqRM?si=_7NtTtXBR8GGhRU8hR5-0w

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