Music for Trees

Instruments:
Gold Tone tenor guitar, WuYou tongue drum, Burke tin whistle

A Ring Of Roots

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:
dulcijo, octave mandolin, tin whistle, flute, glockenspiel, egg shaker, bongos, tambourine, sleigh bells, ipad synth

Sycamore Tree

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

Staghorn Sumac

Written near a white birch tree.

Instruments:
Big Leaf dulcitar, Burke tin whistle, triangle

White Birch

Instruments
tenor guitar, whistle, chimes, synth

The Ash Tree

Instruments:
Lyre Harp, Low D Whistle, High D Whistle, Synthesizer, Glockenspiel

Douglas Fir Tree

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

An original whistle tune written while beside the slime mold shown in the photo, which was on a dead tree that stretches out over a river. 

Instruments:
Killarney D whistle, Kerry Optima low D whistle, Kentucky mandolin, bells

Slime Mold 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

Instruments:
Gardner mountain dulcimer, Killarney tin whistle, glockenspiel

Red Pines

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

An original tune that came about while playing a tin whistle and watching the sun shining on an icy pine tree.

Hilary Dirlam:
melodica

Zach Schneider:
tenor guitar, Killarney D tin whistle, karatala, ghungroo bells, frame drum

Sunshine On An Icy Pine (with Hilary Dirlam)

An original tune that arose while looking out at the sun shining on rain covered pines.

Instruments:
McNally strumstick, Killarney tin whistle, shruti box

Sunshine On A Rainy Pine

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

An original tune written on a strumstick, near an old oak tree.

Instruments:
McNally strumstick, Burke tin whistle, ankle bells, sleigh bells, claves, tingsha bells, frame drum, Gold Tone Irish bouzouki

The Old Oak

Instruments:
Susato Dolce-Duo whistle, Gold Tone Irish bouzouki, Gold Tone tenor guitar, Nick Metcalf whistle, cymbal, tambourine, sleigh bells, Yamaha melodica

Eastern Hemlock

A tune titled for the bark of beech trees, or more specifically how nice lichen looks on its smooth bark.

Instruments:
tanbour, tin whistle, egg shaker, tambourine

Beech Bark

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