Amazing sound and instrumentation. Absolutely love this edgy reality. Huge Applause.

I agree with Fritz! And I will add... great title!

wow this has a very intriguing swing to it. flavorful how all the instruments shine

Between Heaven And Hell... Alive!

After Us

Thank you, Jonathan @jonathan_beckenstein for your encouragement, the beautiful guitars you contributed here, and for the thoughtful and satisfying mix job!

Upon This Sea 
Janine Levinson 2023
Guitar and Mix: Jonathan Beckenstein

I don’t get tired, but I get weary   
Feels like my faith abandons me
And from the storm I have no shelter    
I have no boat upon this sea

I don’t feel bad, but I can feel hopeless      
And I can walk, but I lose my feet
I am strong, but I cannot carry    
I have no boat upon this sea
 
Upon this sea   
Upon this sea   
I tread a lifetime 

I am the spring that you will drink from
I give you life and cool your brow
You will not drown, but you will perish
And next to me you will lie down 

Upon this sea  
Upon this sea 
I tread a lifetime

I don’t get tired, but I sure get weary
Feels like my faith abandons me
And from the storm I have no shelter
I have no boat upon this sea

Upon This Sea - with Jonathan Beckenstein

Counting Stars

“Symphony for Chamber Orchestra - 4th Movt: Finale” was completed in January 2025 in Fairview, TX. Performance time is about 10.5 minutes. Printed and electronic copies of the score and parts will be available soon from www.CreativeSpiritOnline.com.

About this recording:
The present virtual recording was produced using Finale 27.4.1 and the Garritan Personal Orchestra 5 virtual instrument library. Mastering was done by EMastered. For the best listening experience, high quality headphones are recommended. 

Instrumentation:
Flute. Oboe, Bb Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Bassoon, Horn in F, Trumpet in C, and Strings

Performance notes:
• Tempo, expression, and dynamic markings should be strictly observed.
• There is no key signature. Accidentals apply to the end of the measure or to the note or notes tied over the measure, and only to notes of the same pitch class, in the same octave.
• Hairpin pairs (e.g.: mp <>, mf ><) indicate a temporary volume change of one dynamic level.
• Passages marked fff or ppp indicate playing as loudly and as quietly as possible, respectively.
• Double-bass “C-extension” is required.

Contact information:
Robert John Brooks, Fairview, Texas USA
Email: robtjbrooks@yahoo.com
Web: www.CreativeSpiritOnline.com
Web: eMastered.com/profile/robtjbrooks

Engraving by the composer
Artwork by the composer
Copyright 2025

Symphony for Chamber Orchestra - 4th Movt: Finale

Montage et photographies : 
© 2025, Chartrand Saint-Louis
Lien vers la vidéo : https://youtu.be/UH1NVndJJoQ 

Musique :
© 2025, orchestration, titre : "Symphonie rurale", par Albert, 1:30 min.

Mixage, révision et sonorisation par Albert

"Symphonie rurale", par Albert; Mixage, révision et sonorisation par Albert [lien vidéo]

Mysterious strings

A little monkey in a mechanical suit

Update: Added bass keys and simple melody lines (one with delay) throughout. Kind of nice not having my keyboard and needing to write with a piano roll instead. It's interesting

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An ever fruitful comment chat with these geniuses seeded this song. Thanks Sponges 🫶🏽🔆


Lyrics

We are Sponges

Absorbsion of ancient
Greatest grandparent of sentience
Gold for unicellular adaption
Our evolution has complicated caption

Life's headline still written in bold
Hugging sea beds dearest calm unfolds
You took a niche as filter of deeps
Shown trees the way
Future air sees less weeps

We simulate you
Clones clever dished cleaned
Laws of attraction
Life's feather get preened
To most you're inanimate
A useful tool
Though cleaning Earth's flatulence
So breathe we do

I am a sponge
I see your clever
Good structured spicule
Consistence forever
Flagellated cells force filter some demons
We are good sponges for myriad of reasons

Mycelium of sea
Set toned fungi land
Pioneers of proofed evolutionary stand
You paved the path
Way of the net
Multicellular attractor
Filter us from death

Perifora hermaphrodite
Bedded 3D paintings
Beating Edge of our Earth
Give us galactic gravitational girth
Truth for the start absorb my heart
Lessons of love listing light from all start

We are Sponges

IT'S A FUNNY THING FOR ME TO SAY
BUT CHAOS COMFORTS ME
HATE THE CALM BEFORE THE STORM
BUT DANGER SIGNS, THEY MAKE MY DAY
>
I TAKE THE RISK, I NEVER PRAY
IGNORING THEM THEY GO AWAY
I SHAKE MY FIST, SAY COME WHAT MAY
TOMORROW I MAY PASS AWAY
>
CHAOS
KEEPS ME COMPANY
CHAOS IS THE ONLY FRIEND I NEED
>
CHAOS
SHE SAYS THAT IT’S HER HAPPY PLACE
CHAOS
HER COMFORT BLANKET OF CHAOS
>
HOUSE OF DYSFUNCTION OR A STABLE HOME
NOT A DIFFICULT CHOICE UNLESS YOU’RE LIVING IN THE TWILIGHT ZONE
>
WHERE COMMON SENSE IS ABSENT
ALL THE RULES THROWN IN REVERSE
DON’T MAKE A LICK OF SENSE AND SHE KNOWS IT
HER DECISIONS GO FROM BAD TO WORSE
>
SURE TO MEET A SORRY END 
AND SHE’S LOSING HER BEST FRIEND
TWELVES YEARS OR MORE I’VE WASTED, 
NEVER ONCE LEFT HER SIDE
>
PROBABLY TIME I FACED IT, 
FORCED MYSELF TO QUIT
IT WAS A MIRACLE WHILE IT LASTED
BUT WAS INEVITABLE…..THAT WE’D SPLIT

CHAOS COMFORTS ME

Baby

01 - NI - Session Guitarist - Picked Acoustic - Tonight
02 - SA - PS - Tubular Bells - Short Soft Sticks
03 - SA - PS - Xylophone - Swarmed Sticks Hot F
04 - SA - OACE - Chamber Grid

Winter Heat

all composed and performed by me
https://vascoribeiromorais.bandcamp.com/album/wild-gristle
https://vascoribeiromorais.bandcamp.com/album/fios-de-azeite

A little monkey in a mechanical suit

vasco ribeiro morais 2023

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