the life i had in mind

Progressive Roots

Time to Clock

LICENSE

Time To Clock (EDIT 60sec)

Instrumental rock/metal - celebrating music purely for the joy of it.

Ascension

A Fool's Paradise

Just a quick track made trying to stretch one melodic idea as far as I could take it but using tempo and thickness to create a sense of development. Pretty simple but trying to work on more simpler themes. CSSS CSS and CSP + Reason 11

The Monotony of Sorrow

if this world were my song

American Family Revival 
OST Track Name:  "I Am Not A Superman"
Documentary, US, 2019
Film Director: Handel Humphrey

AMERICAN FAMIL REVIVAL

I Am Not A Superman - American Family Revival OST

String Quartet No. 1
Duration: 22'
Publisher: BIll Holab Music: http://www.billholabmusic.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=1026
For More Information: https://robertpaterson.com/string-quartet-no-1
For more information on album: https://www.americanmodernrecordings.com/the-indianapolis-quartet-robert-paterson-string-quartets-1-3

PROGRAM NOTES
My original intent with this work was to write a set of four independent miniatures. After writing the first maximally-sized one, I decided to change course: these four "miniatures" are now my String Quartet No. 1.

Although these four movements are designed to be independent, small amounts of material are used interchangeably between each movement. Most notably, material from the first two movements is used in the third, and material from the third movement is used in the fourth.

The most prominent aural feature of the first movement, Fast and Sprightly, is the recurring "clarion" motive. This motive evolves into various thematic gestures and also reappears in the next two movements. Another prominent feature of the first movement is the use of jazz references. The string quartet is required to "swing," a style of playing usually only utilized by jazz musicians and big bands.

The second movement, Logy, begins by parodying North American, southern-style country waltzes. While composing this movement, I had visions of my mother interrupting "Three good ol’ boys fiddlin’ on a porch in Rabun Gap, GA," quipping at them to stop. The quipping is represented by the first violinist interjecting the "Rob–ert" theme. This strange, surrealistic daydream probably originates from memories of my mother calling my name from the other side of the bedroom door when I was a boy.

A section called "Andrew Lloyd Webber Disease" occurs in the middle of the second movement. This section is a schizophrenic alternation of a sick, dissonant, violin duo with an Andrew Lloyd Webber-sounding viola and cello duo. By the end of the movement, my mother joins the "Good ol’ boys" for a final song, after they have all become sick from eating too many boiled peanuts.

The third movement, Sad, Luscious Adagio, uses material from the first and second movements, but at a much slower tempo. Each player has a featured solo in this movement: the cellist plays a solo in double-stops and the violinist plays one made up of almost entirely artificial harmonics. The second violin and viola solos are intended to highlight the instruments’ singing qualities and the performers’ lyrical abilities. As with Logy, I use material recycled from previous movements.

Although the fourth movement, Energetic Polka, is not a strict polka, it has a polka-like beginning. It also contains a few short "quotes," the most notable one being the appropriation of the melodic line from the theme song from the television show The Love Boat.

Material from other movements is also used in Energetic Polka, particularly by the cello. The cellist never has a chance to play the "Pseudo-fugato" theme in Logy, so the cellist "aggressively" reintroduces it in this movement. Energetic Polka ends with a section entitled "Hyperfast shimmy and shake."

The Indianapolis Quartet: Robert Paterson - String Quartets 1-3

String Quartet No. 1 ("Love Boat") - IV. Energetic Polka

Jimmy Reed did "Big Boss Man" which I truly like. Here is my follow up, "Bossy Old Man"

Bossy Old Man

In deference to listeners from the Netherlands (see Bas Kooman below), I should explain that whilst the phrase 'Dutch Courage' began life as a racial slur issued by British sailors after the Anglo Dutch War... it is now generally meant to refer to the summoning of courage by having a drink (alcohol). I wrote it when I was playing open mics in pubs (remember them?), and figured I should have a song about drinking...

Remixed Jan 22

DUTCH COURAGE

Think I drink too much
Know I think too much
And everything that exists either out or in between
Just a blur, just a haze, full of words I never mean
And it's always been this way
Like you always say
So
Yes, I let you in
Yes, I let you win again
Dutch courage has always let me down in the end

Think I say too much
Know I sway too much (formerly weigh)
Waiting till all the cons have been outweighed by all the pros
knowing all along that i’m just gonna see how it goes
in some classic textbook way
like you always say
So
Yes, I let you in
Yes, I let you win again
Dutch courage has always let me down in the end


(Think I show too much 
Know I know too much)
All the words we’ve left unspoken on the tip of every tongue
all the promises left unbroken never meant a single one
And it's always been this way
Until today...
So
No, I won’t let you in
No, you’ll never win again
No, I won’t let you in
No, you’ll never win again
But Dutch courage has always let me down
Dutch courage has always let me down
Dutch courage has always let me down in the end

Dutch Courage

Having a good time making me some music:)

A Fool's Paradise

Tila