Music for Plants

Dulcitar Music (also known as stick dulcimer & strumstick)

Pendant Ocarina

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Tunes for The Tall Pines

I find it nice to know some tunes that dwell within one octave. 

One reason is that for the majority of my tune writing and playing, I lived with a cat. His ears didn't seem to appreciate any tin whistle notes above the first octave. So out of consideration to his ears, a large amount of the tunes I wrote stayed in the first octave.

I also play musical instruments for people with developmental disabilities. If the mood is calm & quiet, and I'm maybe trying to help them relax or sleep, a tune that goes into the 2nd octave on a tin whistle or flute may be a bit too loud. So one octave tunes are nice for this as well.

One octave tunes also give me an option of what key to play the tune in to best suit a moment. For example, on a D whistle I could play it in the first octave (D) or the second octave (G). If I'm outside and it's windy, I may choose to play in G, since the second octave is a bit more wind resistant (it's tough to play whistles in windy weather). And I could choose D or G depending on the volume of the place I'm playing. It's also nice to have options of different keys to play in so you have more of a chance of playing along with other instuments.

It might also be nice to know some one octave tunes for anyone who plays an instrument that can only play 8 notes or so. For me, this would be my pendant ocarina, which I often bring along to play while out in a forest.

And lastly, I also just find that I enjoy simplistic tunes.

So here are some one octave tunes I've recorded. Most of these are original compositions, with a few traditional tunes here & there.

One Octave Tunes

Original Folk Tunes

I've accumulated quite a lot of recordings, so here's a simplified list of my recordings which I find the most pleasant to hear. As the title of the playlist describes, each piece features whistles and flutes.

Favorite Toots of Whistles and Flutes

Music for Trees

A tune titled in appreciation of a very neat looking and very neat sounding bird.

Instruments:
Gold Tone tenor guitar, Burke tin whistle, Mk Pro low whistle

Starlings In The Oak Tree

Instruments:
Burke tin whistle, WuYou tongue drum, bongos, egg shaker, finger cymbals, tingsha bells, seed rattle, temple blocks, ghungroo bells

The Boulder By The Birches

Instruments:
Nick Metcalf tin whistle, Kentucky mandolin, Gold Tone tenor guitar, Gold Tone tenor banjo, shruti box, tingsha bells, ankle bells, tambourine, bongos, cymbal, triangle, egg shaker

Milkweed

Instruments:
Burke tin whistle, WuYou tongue drum

Daffodils Beside The Barn (version 2)

Instruments:
dulcitar, tin whistle, tingsha bells, sleigh bells, triangle, egg shaker

Moon Glowing On The River Flowing

Instruments:
Hora octave mandolin, Burke D & low G whistles

Two Raccoons In A Blueberry Bush

Instruments:
Hugh Tracy kalimba, Sky Jam kalimba, Burke tin whistle, seed rattle, triangle

Staghorn Sumac

Aquila altera (madrigal ornamentado), Jacopo da Bologna (fl. 1340-55). STYLUS LUXURIANS. Dir. J. M. Saperas

17 Aquila Altera

Cant de la Sibila, anónimo (s. XII-XV). STYLUS LUXURIANS, Dir. J. M. Saperas

19 Canto De La Sibila

Quan vei l'alauzeta (cançó), Bernard de Ventadour (c.1125-c1180). STYLUS LUXURIANS 2006. Dir J. M Saperas & Kym Amps, Ruth López, Francisco Luengo, Felipe Sánchez, Serguei Sappricheff.

01 Quan Vei L'alauzeta

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Успокоить этот день / To calm this day

Instruments: Lyre Harp, Tin Whistle, Bell

No Cry Babies

Werner Heider - Gassenhauer for soprano recorder and snare drum
Jolanta Szlachcic - recorder
live recording

Werner Heider - Gassenhauer /live rec

Bach Harpsichord Concerto in F
Andrzej Zawisza - harpsichord
Michaela Koudelkova - 1st recorder
Jolanta Szlachcic - 2nd recorder

J.S.Bach BWV 1057 Harpsichord Concerto in F

A waltz that was written while sitting on a stone above a river, surrounded by white caterpillars.

Instruments:
High D Killarney Tin Whistle, Low D Kerry Optima Tin Whistle, Jerry Freeman Tin Whistle in the key of A

Waltz Of The White Caterpillar (version 2)

An original whistle tune written on a tree above a river.

Instruments: Burke low G whistle, Killarney C whistle, Kentucky mandolin, bells, karatala, jaw harp, Moroccan clay drums, sitar

On A Tree Above A River

Instruments: Gardner mountain dulcimer, Kerry Optima low D whistle, Burke low G whistle, Killarney high D whistle, glockenspeil

*The photo is of striped maple bark

Striped Maple

I made my friends some homemade vegetable stock as a gift for their wedding, though i felt another gift to accompany the vegetable stock would be nice, so here's an original waltz written for my friends to accompany their vegetable stock. 

Instruments: Killarney D tin whistle, Kentucky mandolin, Jerry Freeman low A tin whistle, ankle bells, tingsha bells

Vegetable Stock Waltz

A tune written while playing a tin whistle as I was wading down a river. Every now and then I'd catch up to a duck, eventually getting fairly close as I continued to wade and whistle, then once I was quite near it, the duck would fly further down the river. This pattern continued for a little while and it seemed I was accidentally slowly chasing the duck. Which is where the name arose from. 

Instruments:
Kentucky mandolin, Killarney D tin whistle

Accidentally Following A Duck Down A River

Instruments:
Doug Tipple flute, Moroccan clay drums, sleigh bells, karatala, guiro, tongue drum

Four Pheasants

A tune written while drinking dandelion tea.

Instruments: Kentucky mandolin, Killarney whistle, Doug Tipple flute, claps, sleigh bells, acoustic guitar, triangle

*The photo is of a leaf with a beard of beard lichen

Dandelion Tea

An original waltz.

Instruments:
Oberon Gosling ocarina, Killarney tin whistle, Kentucky mandolin, bells, melodica, Moroccan clay drums, tingsha bells

A Yurt Of Clouds

An original tune titled in appreciation of a tree with particularly neat looking bark, that I especially love to see in the Bradford Bog, here in Bradford, New Hampshire. 

Instruments:
Tenor guitar, Jerry Freeman low A tin whistle, glockenspiel

Atlantic White Cedar

Dan Jones:
acoustic guitar
Zach Schneider:
tenor guitar, Killarney D whistle, Doug Tipple low D flute, ghungroo bells

Romanesco Broccoli

An old time folk tune.

Instruments:
Hugh Tracy kalimba, Doug Tipple low D flute, frame drum, Moroccan clay drums, egg shaker, glockenspiel

Ducks On The Millpond

A tune that arose as I was on my way to buy celery and cabbage for my soup.

Instruments:
Tenor guitar, Killarney D whistle, Burke low G whistle

Celery & Cabbage

An original tune, titled in appreciation of one of my favorite fungi to encounter and eat. 

Instruments:
McNally strumstick, Doug Tipple low D flute, Moroccan clay drums, frame drum, egg shaker, tingsha bells

Black Trumpets

Instruments:
Burke low G whistle, tenor guitar, organ

White Goat

This composition arose while sitting beside a window with my cat and listening to the birds chirp in the morning.

Instruments:
Gold Tone tenor guitar, Doug Tipple low D flute, Jerry Freeman low A whistle

Sitting Beside A Cat And Listening To The Chirps Of Birds

An ocarina tune dedicated to this nice looking and nice tasting fungi. 

Instruments:
Jubo ocarina, Kentucky mandolin, sleigh bells, frame drum, tingsha bells

Lion's Mane

This tune came about while sitting on a tree above a river, where two sun fish were nesting in their nest.

Instruments:
Jubo ocarina, Kentucky mandolin, Killarney tin whistle, Feng Ya ocarina, tenor guitar, tambourine

Nesting Sun Fish

Dan Jones: acoustic guitar
Rob Newton: Snapple cap
Zach Schneider: McNally strumstick, Killarney whistle, frame drum, tingsha bells, tambourine

Rob for the Win

A tune written while sitting on a beech tree that had fallen onto the sand bar of a river.

Instruments:
Jubo ocarina, Killarney whistle, McNally strumstick, tingsha bells, tambourine, Szilagyi jaw harp

Fallen Beech Tree

On The Night From July To August...

Music for vertical trips.

Here's a version featuring Mariam Zohra D : Myrh https://soundcloud.com/myrhyum/firebead-somebodybo-myrh

More photos: https://www.instagram.com/p/CDwMKJkg5kN/

On The Night From July To August

Музыка для наружного применения / Music for external use [real time & field recording 9.05.2020]
https://assemblyofhoney.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-external-use

Global self-isolation records. Music for New Era Meditation.

Музыка для наружного применения / Music for external use

from: Music for external use  [live 9.05.2020]

An original whistle waltz, written on a day that I saw a lot of Eastern Pheobes.

Instruments:
Burke tin whistle, Gold Tone tenor guitar

Eastern Pheobe

a sketch..
words iz
have you ever seen an evil hedgehog
crunching away on a slug
thinking up dastardly doings
looking evilly sideways at crumbs
have you ever stopped there to wonder
what goes on beneath spindles and lice
i tell you its all very spikey
i can tell you its not very nice

have you ever even considered
the malevolent fish in your pond
you can bet they are viscous pernicious
they are evil incarnate beyond
just waiting to grow legs and weapons
waiting to swell ounce by ounce
they never do other that evilest wishes
they lay in wait silent to pounce
outside your house

look at the evilest sparrow
eyeing you up from a tree
thinking up plots by the barrow load
devising new ways to kill thee
just you wait till theyve got themselves organised
just you wait till they sort out their crew
wait till there peckers are in your eyes
flapping and twatting at you

stop thinking youre cool
cos youre a fool
mother nature is cruel.

Nature Is Cruel

Seed germination and flowering) 🌻

CRAZY COMPASS: Russia Moscow/Penza, Spain, Croatia (summer 2020)

Sergey Kobzev @assembly-of-honey (Moscow, Russia) - drums, bass, flute
Pedro Acevedo / @eco-rem (Avilés, Spain) - jew's-harp
Alexander Bozhday @somebody-bo (Penza, Russia) - mysterious creaks
Samy Ben Rabah @samybr (Near Pazin, Croatia) - mandolin
Nata Boundariver @crazycompass (Moscow, Russia) - singing, drawing

P.S.

Soon the first Crazy Compass CD "Life Tree" will be released on @Meticulous-Midgets: https://crazycompass.bandcamp.com/album/life-tree

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CRAZY COMPASS planet band - Подсолнух / Sunflower

Instruments:
McNally strumstick, Burke tin whistles, sleigh bells, karatala

Yellow - Rumped Warbler

Instruments:
Jubo pendant ocarina, Burke tin whistle, WuYou tongue drum, Pearl travel bongos, egg shaker, sleigh bells, tingsha bells, karatala

Red - Bellied Woodpecker

Instruments:
Seagull Merlin dulcitar, Burke tin whistle, Gold Tone tenor guitar, tingsha bells, tambourine

Dark - Eyed Junco

Instruments:
Burke tin whistle, Doug Tipple flute, bongos, conga, frame drum, karatala, egg shaker, shruti box, organ effect on iPad

Downy Woodpecker

Original compositions played upon various acoustic instruments. 

At the moment, the majority of music I record is original folk tunes. Most of these tunes arise whilst out in natural ecosystems or shortly after visiting a natural ecosystem. The titles often reflect an aspect of the ecosystem I had noticed while the tune came about. Lately this is usually a species of bird.

Tin whistles and flutes appear the most often in my recordings; though mandolin, tenor guitar, lyre harp, jaw harp, dulcitar, and a handful of other instruments show up fairly often as well.

And here's some more music I've made along with my friend Dan Jones:
https://soundcloud.com/user-453898279