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

Full Bucket

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

Nerkstura

21 6 2

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

21 9 24

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.

21 7 23

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

22 1 14

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)

Solidude

The second track for a proposed album of dark ambient-ish drone-heavy music intended to lend itself to tasks requiring relaxed concentration, such as soldering Eurorack synth modules. This one is a slowly evolving drone piece performed entirely on the Soma Laboratory Lyra-8 Organismic Synthesizer, with a little help from the Korg NTS-1 for loads of reverb!

GASGIANTS - MUSICFORSOLDERING PARTTWO

Rave Project 5

Energy Project Rave Project Prt 5 (Re vamped)

Progressive degeneration

All done with 23 instances of ModulAir (including effects).
Additionally only 2 instances of LoudMax are used.
Recorded with Reaper 64.
Plug-in download: www.fullbucket.de/music/modulair.html

Demo

Tanz der Module

I teach in US higher education (in a STEM field) 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!

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

WalkingEars