Score available, please inbox if interested. Whilst this interpretation is string based the scored music applied to guitar duet is challenging yet delightful.

Shiva Uma (String Quartet)

A Nocturne is a musical composition that is inspired by, or evocative of, the night.

Night Work

Original underlying composition Alaine Valodze
Stratocaster Guitar and artwork Sunyata
Arrangement & keys/strings O'Shea

Composer Alaine Valodze provided a beautiful atmospheric piece to which Sunyata/O'Shea remixed whilst aiming to capturing the essence of Alaine's original work.

A Union Of Shadows

Chris was enjoying  this set of chords for a week or so , so we went at it ! Im  on my Gibson Melody Maker, and l tend to go for warm middle tone sounds when lm on this guitar! Im always hunting out exotic melody or colour compliments…and using multi volume pedals over two channels going from dryer to split harmonies simultaneously! After Chris set the chords, l go at it like an old Jazz Rocker, but all those high harmonics and brightly coloured synthetic sound forms is Chris using his pedals and then engineering and production ! Then  we come together to do a final mix…

That Saturday never came

Sunyata is an instrumental purist and composes for a live sound.
If he writes for other instruments, he does it, knowing full well a good player could do this. So this attitude to create a live sound despite everything being digital except for the guitars of course, has the track sound as it does.

Chris does the general production and any trim novel sound sourcing and if we both agree with the over all, its on!

Trojan Mule

Grey Moon started as a guitar motif which l improvised on for a day, but l find lots of these ideas, so l might just write a line down to come back to later. This one came back to me as a complete piano piece in dream in the dead of that following night, so l got up and wrote the score down directly and immediately ! I do this often! This is also interesting because l was only introduced to MuseScore in 2019.. before that,  l didn’t have the patience to write everything out on paper, just sketches, so of course, its great not to have to go back to the instrument just to check if you’re getting the sounds right or not… l love this new technology! I have only ever been a guitar purist, playing live, and rarely got the chance to record! Now its happen, and thank to Chris for pushing for the recording and his tech skills make us a good working muso duo! 🙏🏼.     Sunyata 
P.S we have put both the paino sketch and the Quintet of Good Moon which l wrote out after, just to get the difference! I wrote this for Guitar Duet too but Chris and l haven’t got to that yet!

Grey Moon (Piano)

Dark Horse Ink

What l find interesting as l write music is it often precedes the feel of things to come! I wrote Napoleon’s Wallpaper, which has three parts, the Art of War is the last, which was all written in 2019! Most pieces come in one shot or one day, with a little bit of refinement after a bit of listening. It often comes out of Dreams too, night or day dreams! Sunyata

Napoleans Wallpaper (The Art of War)

Recorded as a 'one shot' as we warm into a morning play.

A-Drift

Grey Moon (Quintet)

A shot from last weeks morning jam session. Live playing melding with Sunyata's MuseScore composition.

Oh Yeah!

Cyop

Ekavasana (Piano)

Last weeks morning play focussed on a drift background and gently layered live guitars with use of our individual effects processors.
Programs and effects.
-MuseScore.
-Ableton 11.
-Zoom G6, Boss GT.
-Gibson Melody Maker.
-Schecter 7 string.

Ekomananda

Glass Eyes for Ears

Artist Sunyata and Chris O’Shea have played together as a Guitar Duet based in Cairns, Tropical North Qld Australia since 2019. 
Perhaps easier to class their approach to music as Modern Jazz Instrumentalists for simplicity sake, with the obvious love of impromptu guitar improvisation and experimentation.

The duo have equal interest in preconcieved and elaborate contemporary and traditional styles and approaches toward composition. 

With extra instrumentation, piano, percussion and ensemble works are scored out in entirety by Sunyata. Then the overlayed of improvisation, if needed, with any final studio production completed by Chris. Many works  are ‘one off’ live shots recorded on the spot on our weekly morning music day, and then presented here, as they were ‘made’ on the day! 

Sunyata’s attitude is that he and Chris are two Artists working together, and invention and freedom is their credos!

Sunyata/O'Shea

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