Got Me Thinking

Soon to be released Dying Stage album. Updated: 10/24/2021

June 23, 2017

The Dying Stage

I've always liked Celtic melodies in Rock music. So I wrote my own. Inspired by Steve Morse and The Corrs. Thanks for listening! ;-)

GEAR:
- 2019 EVH Wolfgang Standard
- Ibanez Mikro Short-Scale Bass
- Apogee Jam 96k
- Apple GarageBand

4/2/20: Mix 2
4/4/20: Mix 3
4/6/20: Emastered Mix 3
08/12/20: Final Version v2.5

Shut Up & Play

Dublin Down

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"’Acoustic Sunrise Acoustic Sunset’ is better still, loosely tuned chords endow an almost middle eastern sitar like mantra to the cause begetting a vibe not so far removed from the Sunray the candy coated riffs delicately and deftly worked to provide something that will not only appeal to lovers of early feedback less Flying Saucer Attack but the mercurial sounds found on those rare acoustic fan club freebies issued by Porcupine Tree."

An acoustic piece with ambiance. Imagine a day in time lapse from sunrise to sunset. From the archives ...circa 2006

Demo v1.1

Acoustic Sunrise to Sunset

“Eyes So Wide” is a track I wrote, sang and played all instruments on. If you dig it please feel free to comment or repost! Thank you 🙏🏻✌🏻-Tim

Eyes So Wide (original track)

It Never Started Out This Way

This is a compilation of most of my singles that I released in 2020.  I hope you enjoy listening to it and repost, like, or comment to show some love and support for yours truly. 

-purpleLily

Sunset

Quasar Catastrophe

The Grand Design

Listen to "No Fear" (Instrumental) produced by Phucka Yu

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No Fear

Instrumental

No Fear (Instrumental) produced by Phucka Yu

Eating Variations
for Baritone Voice and Chamber Quintet (Baritone Voice,  Flute, B-flat Clarinet, Violin, Cello, Percussion)
Duration: 9' 
Text by Ron Singer
Performers: American Modern Ensemble; Robert Gardner, Baritone
Publisher: Bill Holab Music: http://www.billholabmusic.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=1109
Online Perusal Score: https://issuu.com/robertpaterson/docs/eating_variations-fs-bound_perusal
For More Information: https://robertpaterson.com/eating-variations

PROGRAM NOTES
Eating Variations is based on a series of witty poems with the same title by Ron Singer. The work as a whole is essentially a satire on food faddism and depicts different aspects of eating. The way I chose to set these poems is light-hearted, perhaps lighter in spirit than Singer originally intended, but with a serious, dark side.

The first movement, My Body, a Temple, incorporates the sounds of Tibetan Singing Bowls (also called Temple Bowls or Cup Gongs) and is loosely, harmonically inspired by Khöömei, or Tuvan Throat Singing and David Hykes’s Harmonic Choir recordings; both of whom use a style in which the singer produces overtones on top of the fundamental notes. Perhaps mercifully, I do not require the baritone to use this technique, but instead, use the flute to produce false overtones in a couple of spots.

In the second movement, The Hog, the instruments mimic pig sounds with scratchy, grunting noises from the violin and cello and clarinet multiphonics. A round-sounding whole-tone scale is used and there is a Polka-like accompaniment in the percussion.

The third movement, Even the Dyspeptic Must Eat, uses upward and downward runs in the bass clarinet to impart a roller coaster-like sense of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease, a condition in which there is recurrent return of stomach contents back up the esophagus. This is reinforced with a slow, background groove in the drums.

The cello part in the fourth movement, The Dietary Moralist, is inspired by Dave Eggar, a cellist who can play his instrument like a guitar and sing at the same time. In this movement, I ask the cellist to play in a somewhat folksy style and sing out of tune back-up vocals—to me, reminiscent of a 1960s musical Hippie Sit-in. The main vocalist is backed by the well meaning but out of tune "band." To paraphrase an interesting email exchange with Singer, we agreed that in this context, the vocalist might represent a contemporary version of a certain species of 60's hippie—say, a particularly zealous fair trade coffee purveyor, and that this Malvolio type is singing along with a group of kindred spirits. This movement is not a literal portrayal of the text, which is quite serious in tone, and stretches the meaning more than the other movements. Perhaps my interpretation may instead be viewed more as commentary on the text.

In each passing decade, people are sure of their eating habits, and the carefree, assured, commercial America of the 1950s was no different. In the last movement, The Happy Medium, I envision a father-like doctor figure squarely explaining to a patient how to eat. The perky background music is meant to evoke a 1950s TV commercial, or perhaps a short, black and white educational grade school film.

Winter Songs

Eating Variations - II. The Hog

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based in the north east of England indie rock ,acoustic rock , alt rock

It Never Started Out This Way

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