Music for Nature

A tune titled for a very cute and neat looking duck I've enjoyed seeing during my visits to the ocean this winter.

Instruments:
Gold Tone tenor guitar, Burke tin whistle

Bufflehead Duck

A tune written after encountering some ruby-crowned kinglets.

Instruments:
Dante Music telescopic tin whistle, Gold Tone tenor guitar, Doug Tipple flute

Ruby - Crowned Kinglet

Instruments:
Burke tin whistle, WuYou tongue drum

Daffodils Beside The Barn (version 2)

Cane Toad 2

A song for spring peepers with a miniature kinnor harp, tin whistle, sopilka, bansuri, a bell, and spring peepers.
The picture is of a vernal pool I encountered in the woods here in New Hampshire.

Spring Peepers

A song written and recorded on the winter solstice next to Lake Toad.

Instruments:
Kalimba, Flute, Tin Whistle

Lake Toad in the Winter

A tune written on a tin whistle at Mud Pond Bog in Fox State Forest of Hillsborough, New Hampshire during the winter.

Instruments:
Shruti Box, Tin Whistle

Mud Pond Bog

Lyre Harp and Tin Whistle improvisation with a Babbling Brook

A song written on kalimba and tin whistle while our feet were nibbled by minnows. Written at the Warner River that runs through the Tall Pines forest of Bradford, NH.

 Dan Jones: Kalimba, Acoustic Guitar
Zach Schneider: Tin Whistles, Sitar, Percussion

Minnows

An original whistle waltz. The tune took two days or so for the A part and B part to come about. After the A part was written and before the B part was written, I happened to see three red foxes, and that felt like a nice thing to title the tune.

Instruments:
Killarney D tin whistle, Jerry Freeman low A tin whistle

Three Red Foxes

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

Four Pheasants

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

An original tune written in the spring, while the woods were filled with many unfurling ferns.
Instruments:
Gardner mountain dulcimer, Doug Tipple flute, Killarney tin whistle, glockenspiel

Unfurling Ferns

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

A tune written on a strumstick after watching a documentary on condors. 

Instruments:
McNally strumstick, Killarney whistle, shruti box, organ, tingsha bells

Condor

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

Yellow - Rumped Warbler

Instruments:
Irish bouzouki, tenor guitar, tin whistle, flute, tambourine, cymbal, and clapping

Shining Club Moss

Instruments:
Doug Tipple flute, Burke tin whistle, Gold Tone tenor guitar, triangle, iPad organ

A Long Line Of Yaks (version 2)

Instruments:
Gold Tone tenor guitar, Burke tin whistle

Wintergreen

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