This ode to the Spring Solstice for Piano with just a hint of Strings tells a Story. But... 
I'll leave That entirely up to Your imaginations, my friends.  ;-)

May you enJoy the journey.


© Gary Courtland-Miles 2021
℗ Gary Courtland-Miles 2021

Synesthesia For Piano & Synth

A trip down memory lane. Sun rising over the Carpathian mountains in Romania. Good morning...

Don Pepe - Sunrise @ Transylvania Calling 2019 (DJ-set)

Solstice drone, live to 2-track. Eurorack with a focus on the harmonic oscillator.

2021.12.21 Solstice

Key Words - Silence   Peace   New Light

With Music for the winter light. 

Celebrating the Winter Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere. 

This is at 9.50pm GMT Wednesday December 21st.  2022

Ideal to do this meditation at dawn - before sunrise - any day around midwinter.  Set up your room in darkness with one candle. Set a space outside to sit afterwards. And finish by lighting more candles and /or going outside to be present to the light of the sun rising. 

You can do this again at the end of the year on Dec 31st. 

Check your times of first light and sunrise - with: https://www.timeanddate.com

© Kate Fitzpatrick & Mythic Voice Dec 2022


Photo -© frank-mckenna-eXHeq48Z-Q4-unsplash

Winter Solstice 2022

Here's a little something I've been working on to celebrate the Solstice. 

Change is one of the only things we can really depend on in this ol' world. And it comes either suddenly, or via cycles and seasons. 

The best strategy, as far as I can tell... is to simply inJOY it!  Yeah... kinda like just Groovin' with the Music! :))                                   

© Gary Courtland-Miles 2015

From Solstice To Solstice

There's no doubt about it, Music animates my Soul! As an enthusiastic Student of Life and a Passionate Improvisational Pianist &  Composer,  as far as I'm concerned,  our lives would be impoverished without it ! :)  Composing is all about 'Sharing the Joy, Passion and Angst' we experience in Life, as well as connecting up with Musicians and 'Creatives' worldwide. This makes it even more wonderful!  That willingness to engage in whatever way makes SC an ever-expanding Movable Feast that nourishes and inspires on so many levels. 

Music Communicates the Emotional and Informational Content and Context of Heart, Mind, Spirit, and Soul. And 'Letting it Flow' is 'Where Its At' as I hear it!  

Over the past few years since becoming part of the SoundCloud Family, my 'Joy in and Passion for' Creative Musical Expression has increased exponentially as has my appreciation of all the wonderfully passionate Musicians and Creatives worldwide who have devoted themselves to Letting It Take Form! 

Here's a bit of a bio, if anyone is interested.  

Somehow, my MUSE got my attention at a tender age. About the time I was completing my Royal Conservatory training. 

My memory being poorer than most, I began improvising in the passages I had forgotten. And while the audience seemed unaware, my teacher chastised me indulgently, saying, "it appears I have a budding composer on my hands"!  And thus began my Odyssey into the wonderful Vibrational world of Sound!:-) In-deed, I have been an ardent, attentive and appreciative acolyte of my Muse ever since. 

During the early 1970s I had the pleasure and honour of a three year friendship and Master Class with the then Octogenarian Composer Manoah Leide-Tedesco , one of Tone Poem giant Richard Strauss` favorite pupils and friend of Maurice Ravel and other 20th century composers such as Stravinsky (whose music he helped popularize). Since then, whether Improvising, listening, studying composition or devoting myself wholly to the visual arts for years at a time, I have been deeply aware that sharing my musical insights , teaching, and or mentoring young aficionados came with the territory!   I love it, although I am afraid that as my consciousness expands...that I know less and less each year! :-)  

The Tonal Oasis called SoundCloud is a fine and wondrous place in oh so many ways.  And with your support and appreciation, I de-Light to share my music with an ever widening audience. I call what i upload ' Sound-Seeds'.  Most of these 'bed tracks' call out to be fleshed out by passionate soloists who somehow Resonate with my Soundz and Ideas.  So please drop me a line, as i am most interested in letting them bear more fruit through collaboration, interpretation, re-mixing or use in other media.    

And on a personal Note, a Huge Thank-You to each and all who listen, inJoy, and Re-Post onwards what finds it's way thru me! :) Bless y'all.  It's my Joy to simply 'Let' the Creative Spirit find expression through this instrument of Body, Mind, and Heart!  I hope you will find some peace, joy, and rest, in at least some of my improvisations, compositions, or soundz. 

Insofar as playing, and composing  ... as you continue on in Your journey into  the infinite 'Cave of Wonders' we call Music, I wish you all the very best in all Your creative endeavours. 

So Be Kind to yourSelves and one another. Be Audacious, Ready to Play, and above all, share the Joy of being able to express whatever you're feeling. 

In-deed, may The Muse continue to 'Sing on and Play on' through each of us !   For this is one way this 'ol world is lifted up, and Changed for the better - note by note, and smile by smile .  

 Yes, may we simply Let our Creativity flow forth without concern for results.
                                   Peace

                                    Gary *+*

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                       Pluto's atmosphere as seen recently by Horizon Spacecraft

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