Classical compositions, mostly written in 2023 except for part of the violin sonata. The album's name comes from the fact that I'm currently working a short term job that'll last, at longest, another year or two, after which I may end up moving to a new city - even as I come to feel a lot more at home in my current city there's always the awareness in the back of my head that I may be heading somewhere else in a year or two. An odd feeling of simultaneously settled and unsettled. Anyway, hope you enjoy these compositions and that you've found yourself somewhere home-like during the holidays!

Home for Now

Usually around new years I put together a compilation of personal favorites and/or popular tracks from that year. I forgot to make one for 2022, so here's a combined one of uploads over the last two years. As song titles show, some of these were actually written in 2021, but all songs were uploaded in 2022 or later. Hope you enjoy and late happy new year!

Walking Ears 2022 - 2023 compilation

First upload and opening track of an album of pieces, most of which are experimental in one way or another. Hope you enjoy!

Nerkstura

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I'm quite proud of this one. Hope you enjoy it!

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Second upload of a new album featuring compositions written over the last several months of 2021. If anyone can pinpoint what all of these compositions have in common, musically-speaking, put it in the comments - there was a concept tying everything together but I'm not going to reveal what it was, haha.

Cover art created using NeuralBlender.

This album is going to be called "Prohibited Topics," a tribute to the textbook authors and teachers whose work is being disrupted by right wing efforts to stifle education about racial disparity and structural racism in the US. These compositions weren't written with this subject matter in mind, full-disclosure, but the album has now been named in response to this issue and will be dedicated to educators, and to truth, which will win in the end despite efforts to silence it.

Prohibited Topics

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Part of a new album I've been uploading, featuring compositions written over the last several months of 2021. If anyone can pinpoint what all of these compositions have in common, musically-speaking, put it in the comments - there was a concept tying everything together but I'm not going to reveal what it was, haha.

Cover art created using NeuralBlender.

This album is going to be called "Prohibited Topics," a tribute to the textbook authors and teachers whose work is being disrupted by right wing efforts to stifle education about racial disparity and structural racism in the US. These compositions weren't written with this subject matter in mind, full-disclosure, but the album has now been named in response to this issue and will be dedicated to educators, and to truth, which will win in the end despite efforts to silence it.

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Walking Ears - Piano

halF unusuaL (@half-unusual) - Electronics

walkinG unusuaL

Walking unusuaL IX (halF unusuaL & Walking Ears)

Part of a new album I've been uploading, featuring compositions written over the last several months of 2021. If anyone can pinpoint what all of these compositions have in common, musically-speaking, put it in the comments - there was a concept tying everything together but I'm not going to reveal what it was unless if someone figures it out on their own.

Cover art created using NeuralBlender.

This album is going to be called "Prohibited Topics," a tribute to the textbook authors and teachers whose work is being disrupted by right wing efforts to stifle education about racial disparity and structural racism in the US.

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A piano composition, either to be played by two pianists, or by one pianist with four arms.

Part of a new album I've been uploading, featuring compositions written over the last several months of 2021. If anyone can pinpoint what all of these compositions have in common, musically-speaking, put it in the comments - there was a concept tying everything together but I'm not going to reveal what it was unless if someone figures it out on their own.

Cover art created using NeuralBlender.

This album is going to be called "Prohibited Topics," a tribute to the textbook authors and teachers whose work is being disrupted by right wing efforts to stifle education about racial disparity and structural racism in the US.

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Hope you enjoy this keyboard instrumental!

Cover art by Neuralblender.

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Weird composition for mallets and pizzicato strings. Hope you enjoy!

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Sort of a digital chamber music piece with a psychedelic electronic synth-y solo in the middle. Hope you enjoy it!

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Electronic sounds plus digital harpsichord plus synth, hope you enjoy!

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This collaborative composition was written in Musescore instead of Finale Notepad (Notepad was used for all of our prior collaborations) 

Interestingly, the choice of composition software can really impact how a piece turns out. In this case, it's much easier to switch meter partway through a composition in Musescore than in Finale Notepad, where it's more or less impossible unless if you ignore the barlines - we took full advantage of easy and intuitive time signature switching in Musescore here!

For this piece, we alternated off writing 20 measures at a time, emailing the piece back and forth until it was finished. As usual, we did not discuss orverbally plan out the piece in any way, instead just building off each other's contributions.

Our other collaborations: https://soundcloud.com/liamhynestawawalkingears

Liam's profile: https://soundcloud.com/liam-hynes-tawa

C  H A N N E R L E E (Collaboration with Liam Hynes-Tawa)

Playing around with an off-kilter rhythmic idea. This was originally a movement in a larger piano sonata but I sort of prefer it on its own. Hope you enjoy!

Albertine

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Opening movement of a string quartet written using atonal 12 tone technique. Hope you enjoy!

The Ellipsoidal Belligerent Capacitor

Twelve Tone String Quartet - 1

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First upload from a new album meant to explore and embrace a warmer melodic/tonal style of "classical" compositions compared to my prior album that was made entirely of atonal works. I'm proud of how this and the other soon-to-be-uploaded compositions came out, I hope you enjoy them too.

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I wrote this violin sonata around New Years in early 2023, and much of it was written while traveling. I'm proud of how it came out and hope you enjoy it!

The final movement is a loose set of variations on a theme.

Violin Sonata In B Major - 4

I wrote this violin sonata around New Years in early 2023, and much of it was written while traveling. I'm proud of how it came out and hope you enjoy it!

The first movement is in sonata form.

Violin Sonata In B Major - 1

halF unusuaL (https://soundcloud.com/half-unusual) - electronics

Walking Ears - piano

Walking unusuaL XII (halF unusuaL & Walking Ears)

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Don't Buy Anything Today

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I set out to write a short composition in every mode of every key signature - resulting in 84 short compositions in total. I'm sharing an "abridged" version by uploading exactly half of these compositions (the better half). This is part of that series. Hope you enjoy!

Chickenscratch

Ab Dorian

I work as a scientist for a living & am a hobbyist composer writing in a few different styles. I recommend headphones. All of my music is released under a Creative Commons Attribution/Noncommercial license.

My bandcamp page is getting out of date again, but some older albums there can be downloaded for free or for a name-your-own price donation.

If anyone wants to try performing any of this stuff on real instruments please send a message and I can provide scores. Not sure how playable some of it is for human musicians though.

Unsolicited messages asking me to listen to your latest song will lead to you being blocked unless if I know you well and we've interacted a lot.

Hope you enjoy and thanks for visiting!

WalkingEars

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