Music for Insects

Music for Nature

Lyre Harp

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)

Instruments:
dulcijo, tin whistle, flute, tingsha bells, triangle, sleigh bells, tambourine

Eastern Tailed-Blue Butterfly

This tune was written while sitting on a stone in a river, beside some whirligig beetles.

Dan Jones:
acoustic guitar

Zach Schneider:
flute, tin whistle, egg shaker

Whirligig Beetles

A medley of two tunes titled for two moths I'm fond of.

Instruments:
Small Greek baglama, chimes, kalimba, tin whistle, dulcijo, cymbal

Moth Medley (Hummingbird Moth & Rosy Maple Moth)

Written while playing a lyre harp on a boulder beside a brook that flows through a meadow, as woolly aphids flew slowly through the air.

Instruments:
lyre, tin whistle, flute, low whistle, tongue drum, wing, ipad synth

Woolly Aphids Floating Above a Meadow

Cane Toad 2

Porcupine

Lake Toad in the Fall

Pitcher Plant

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

Improvisation with a Lyre Harp and Tin Whistle in a Japanese Mode

Instruments:
Lyre Harp, Tin Whistle, Synthesizer, Small Greek Baglama

Elephant King (reprise)

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)

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

A tune written while sitting on a tree that had fallen across a river, as a wasp flew around beside me. The wasp didn't really influence the calm mood of the tune. But it made me feel a bit uneasy, which caused me to do some mindful breathing, and the tune then arose after that.
There was also some Cardinal flowers growing on a sandbar below me, which is what the photo is of.

Instruments:
Carbony whistle, Doug Tipple flute, Kentucky mandolin, Gold Tone tenor guitar, karatala, tambourine, egg shaker, tingsha bells, sleigh bells

Sitting Beside A Wasp

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