Mixed Friends 57

Some favorites selected out of all uploads from this year - hope you enjoy!

Walking Ears Compilation 2018

An instrumental song written for string quartet + piano + oboe, with oboe playing the starring role.

I was in a pretty jolly mood when I wrote most of this and I think it influenced the way the song came out - most of the time I'm not trying to capture any specific emotion when writing but this song is sort of an exception, at least in places.

Score: https://musescore.com/user/28784368/scores/5104222

First upload of a new album that I'll be uploading one song at a time over the next few months. 

Hope you enjoy!

Human Error

What We Find

This one got edited and rearranged a lot before reaching this final form. It started a lot longer and kind of disorganized, and got trimmed down and reorganized a bit.  Compared to a lot of recent uploads this has more of a kind of distorted electronic sound.

Shelob

Morning Glory

Annie Smart

Closer Than You Know (Classical Glass and Annie Smart)

Seeing Who(& why are they sleeping in my kit bag?)

Even though i7 the processor did not manage a bit at night :-). Sometimes he cracked at me angrily

NI Maschine + VST hybrid piano

2018-07-08

repetition

8Jul18

This is a re-imagining of Night Note's track, The afternoon attempts;
https://soundcloud.com/mmastalka/the-afternoon-attempts
https://soundcloud.com/mmastalka

:D

Night Note: The afternoon attempts [Boson Spin mix]

Middle movement of a piano sonata that's now deleted from Soundcloud, but this movement holds up pretty decently I think. Relatively simple and minimalist-ish short composition in the seldom used locrian mode.

Persisters

Its Own Way - 2

Written using a similar collaborative approach to "Fortress of Time," but for a smaller lineup of instruments.  Hope you enjoy!

House Of Text

A quintet for oboe + strings written in dorian mode (G dorian, hence the title).  This was written using a similar collaborative approach to movement one of the recent piano sonata.

Picture Of Dorian G

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

Walking Ears: Piano

halF earS II (halF unusuaL & Walking Ears)

I teach in US higher education (in a STEM field) & 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My bandcamp page is getting out of date again, but some older albums there can be downloaded for free or for a name-your-own price donation.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.

My music is written without the use of AI.

Hope you enjoy and thanks for visiting!

Its Own Way - 2

WalkingEars