This piece is my original almost-fugue-sounding arrangement of my favorite Ukranian “Christmas Carol”, Carol of the Bells, as if J.S. Bach had written it. Ingredients: Warmth, depth, complexity, eternal romance. Dedicated to my Belle. This was…
This piece is my original almost-fugue-sounding arrangement of my favorite Ukranian “Christmas Carol”, Carol of the Bells, as if J.S. Bach had written it. Ingredients: Warmth, depth, complexity, eternal romance. Dedicated to my Belle. This was…
"As we grow up, we always carry our inner child with us. Wonder and curiosity... there are so many things the child sees. However, this is a view from above. We are now adults with good and bad experiences of life, looking inward. It is time…
This piece is my original almost-fugue-sounding arrangement of my favorite Ukranian “Christmas Carol”, Carol of the Bells, as if J.S. Bach had written it. Ingredients: Warmth, depth, complexity, eternal romance. Dedicated to my Belle. This was…
"As we grow up, we always carry our inner child with us. Wonder and curiosity... there are so many things the child sees. However, this is a view from above. We are now adults with good and bad experiences of life, looking inward. It is time…
This little ragtime number began life as just a snippet, written as background music for a home movie years ago. For the hard core ragtime buffs, I know this is not quite syncopated enough to be true ragtime, but hopefully its fun and bouncy…
Background music for a fun father/daughter YouTube video editing collaboration/experiment (embedded here.) My daughter and I filmed and edited the movie, and I wrote the music after hearing some video-game music my daughter wanted me to emulate…
This piece is my original almost-fugue-sounding arrangement of my favorite Ukranian “Christmas Carol”, Carol of the Bells, as if J.S. Bach had written it. Ingredients: Warmth, depth, complexity, eternal romance. Dedicated to my Belle. This was…
"As we grow up, we always carry our inner child with us. Wonder and curiosity... there are so many things the child sees. However, this is a view from above. We are now adults with good and bad experiences of life, looking inward. It is time…
Close your eyes, and come with me. It is a warm Autumn eve in the Black Forest. There are ancient folk tales about this magical wood... how late at night it comes to life with mischievious fairies and wood nymphs. Any mortal who hears the unusual…
This little ragtime number began life as just a snippet, written as background music for a home movie years ago. For the hard core ragtime buffs, I know this is not quite syncopated enough to be true ragtime, but hopefully its fun and bouncy…
While my wife and I were travelling back down the coast of California (near Big Sur) from a vacation around New Years, we stopped at a turnout over a cliff, and took a bunch of video of at least 15 California Condors, flying and hanging out on…
Close your eyes, and come with me. It is a warm Autumn eve in the Black Forest. There are ancient folk tales about this magical wood... how late at night it comes to life with mischievious fairies and wood nymphs. Any mortal who hears the unusual…
Close your eyes, and come with me. It is a warm Autumn eve in the Black Forest. There are ancient folk tales about this magical wood... how late at night it comes to life with mischievious fairies and wood nymphs. Any mortal who hears the unusual…
Here is another quick glimpse at ideas from my huge "Fractal Serenity" music video project, still in progress. This particular music-video is a "character study" of one of the strange plants that grows in this dream... the "Glass Orchid…
Imagine a Mexican quintette playing a fast waltz. There are 3 melodies played in 3/4 time, in a sort of non-standard ABCABC format. The title is a photographic/geographic/melodic play on words. There is a merging of European waltz and Mexican…
Background music for a fun father/daughter YouTube video editing collaboration/experiment (embedded here.) My daughter and I filmed and edited the movie, and I wrote the music after hearing some video-game music my daughter wanted me to emulate…
Here is another quick glimpse at ideas from my huge "Fractal Serenity" music video project, still in progress. This particular music-video is a "character study" of one of the strange plants that grows in this dream... the "Glass Orchid…
A simple 3-part "round" or canon with variations, showing my children how you can devise a melody that can stack on top of itself like offset puzzle pieces, which will then make its own harmony (with a nod to the master of rounds and fugues, J…
Here is another quick glimpse at ideas from my huge "Fractal Serenity" music video project, still in progress. This particular music-video is a "character study" of one of the strange plants that grows in this dream... the "Glass Orchid…
Intriguing, this sent all sorts of visions scurrying around in my brain. Eventually the visions centered on late night shadows dancing in a beautiful woman's apartment, where she sleeps after a long night dancing... the shadows try to imitate her graceful tango steps, but keep failing miserably, tripping and bumping into things, but always trying to imitate her grace. Sort of a dark comical scene.
ttfn,
Drakonis
That's a BIG snake! Wow, you have some intricate timing/rhythmic things going on 2/3 in, are those two different time signatures over each other (like one staff in 3/4 and another in 4/4?) It definitely created a feeling of slippery disorientation. This was fun to listen to.
Gorgeous writing for trumpets (and trombone?)... and I assume that's you playing all parts? Excellent work. The "echo" on this was a little pronounced (maybe a better reverb setting is needed?) but the performance/writing was excellent.
This story is a poem sent to me by Lesley Sawyer from a blog on her MySpace site and I put it to music and am posting it so she can hear it and maybe see if it's alright. We don't know who wrote the poem. If anybody does please tell me. j mt
Delightfully sweet way to start my morning, thanks to Bethan for pointing this out... Sounds a lot like a story that could have been written by the late Childrens Book author "Doctor Swoofs" (smirk). Wonderfully heart-warming lyrics (great job Lesley), and very nicely adapted to song format, very enjoyable/catchy/folky music, sung and played "just right". I hope she likes your adaptation. Love the message.
Does have the swaggering Russian feel (and nice orchestral sounds, well separated). This also reminded me of my favorite part of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an exhibition ("The Bydlo"). I really like your handling of odd rhythms and dissonance, and then the final consonantal resolution in the coda, that was perfect.
Shostakovitch is on the edge of too modern for me (my loss), but this was a nice piece, wonderfully played. I love the rubato here, makes it very contemplative and thoughtful. Brava!
ooh, love the fun chord bounces here, very enjoyable... sort of unclassifiable, as if F. Liszt did ragtime boogie. The recording sounds a little "dark" or muffled, may need to boost the treble to get more sparkle on the high keys. Nice piece here!
from Live at KXCI Tucson, AZ studio session:
When I was in the 7th grade, I used to skip school on Wednesday mornings so that I could watch the Nat King Cole show on PBS. I was mesmerized by his music. I could feel his vocal influence as I wrote…
elegantly raw guitar/vocal performance, I like your chords, slow deliberate playing, use of space between lyrics to keep the listener waiting... I hate songs that cram a bazillion words and lines into a song :)
Very nice haunting music, and SS's singing really catches hold of emotion here. I was hoping for a little more change between main theme and chorus, the chords and drum rhythms were a bit even throughout. Great guitar work.
100 bpm, f
she sits behind a very large desk
and talks on the phone all long
somewhere inside she's waiting
but i don't know what she's waiting for
slam it down, get up down
run away
she lays upon a very large bed
watches tv and brushes…
I noticed the title, because I also have a generative piece of music called "Fractal Serenity" (I am making a 3D music video for it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOROyAQBgDA ). After listening to and enjoying this music from you, I found the "SonicMood" software, and bought it! Thank you for the tip! I like your choices of instruments, and the slight reverb on this, warm and gentle. Did you use GarageBand for the final music recording?
Enjoyable track here... has a bit of a tasty game-soundrack sound. You'd probably enjoy my "Dance of the Technoids" music video as a chaser to this :-) (it is a YouTube video attached to the music description.) Second section is the perfect free-floating break to the drummy section, very dreamy.
ttfn,
Drakonis
Pain is inspired by my bout with severe nerve damage in my lower back. As anyone who has ever had a good hurt can tell you, it gives you an internal feeling of chaos that often comes and goes in waves and spikes. The music follows this pattern…
Cool slow theme, I can hear you spitting the lyrics through clenched teeth... the chaos-chorus does what you wanted, turns up the adrenaline... final spoken part is chilling. Hate to imagine what this has done to your life and blacksmith practice, ugh! Good musical therapy!
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How cool that people are still enjoying this piece, thank you!
13 years later, and I'm still loving it! LG
Really enjoy your tracks!
j'aime beaucoup. Continue à nous faire rêver.
tres beau
this is awesome drakonis!
very German
I love it!!!! LG
Hi!!! I just wanted to say Hi!!!
Very outdoorish sounds...diggio!
Lovely piano piece
How lovely, it has all the flavour of your wonderful video of the Condors. Delightful!
Hi Eduard, just cooking dinner and being royally entertained! Bee
A brilliant tune, well structured and arranged
So pacifying... Well done
quite nice
Great vid mate and cool track.
great mood piece,,feels very spacial ie open/large... what synth do you use? good work
fun piece
Brilliant
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Fun upbeat music and nice harmonies, and ironically depressing lyrics :-) Love the juxtaposition. Great sax playing too.
Excellent... a longing lament that brings out the rich quality of the cello nicely.
I enjoyed this, but could have enjoyed a few more doubled notes for harmony here and there (like the last chord at the end.) These are all very nice.
This movement has a little mischief in it.
This definitely creates a mood of melancoly. Excellent cello recording, good use of dynamics for the expressiveness of the music.
Very sweet waltz, slow and warm... and slightly quirky, with a little smile. I like it. I hope your daughter does too.
Intriguing, this sent all sorts of visions scurrying around in my brain. Eventually the visions centered on late night shadows dancing in a beautiful woman's apartment, where she sleeps after a long night dancing... the shadows try to imitate her graceful tango steps, but keep failing miserably, tripping and bumping into things, but always trying to imitate her grace. Sort of a dark comical scene. ttfn, Drakonis
That's a BIG snake! Wow, you have some intricate timing/rhythmic things going on 2/3 in, are those two different time signatures over each other (like one staff in 3/4 and another in 4/4?) It definitely created a feeling of slippery disorientation. This was fun to listen to.
Gorgeous writing for trumpets (and trombone?)... and I assume that's you playing all parts? Excellent work. The "echo" on this was a little pronounced (maybe a better reverb setting is needed?) but the performance/writing was excellent.
Delightfully sweet way to start my morning, thanks to Bethan for pointing this out... Sounds a lot like a story that could have been written by the late Childrens Book author "Doctor Swoofs" (smirk). Wonderfully heart-warming lyrics (great job Lesley), and very nicely adapted to song format, very enjoyable/catchy/folky music, sung and played "just right". I hope she likes your adaptation. Love the message.
Does have the swaggering Russian feel (and nice orchestral sounds, well separated). This also reminded me of my favorite part of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an exhibition ("The Bydlo"). I really like your handling of odd rhythms and dissonance, and then the final consonantal resolution in the coda, that was perfect.
Shostakovitch is on the edge of too modern for me (my loss), but this was a nice piece, wonderfully played. I love the rubato here, makes it very contemplative and thoughtful. Brava!
ooh, love the fun chord bounces here, very enjoyable... sort of unclassifiable, as if F. Liszt did ragtime boogie. The recording sounds a little "dark" or muffled, may need to boost the treble to get more sparkle on the high keys. Nice piece here!
elegantly raw guitar/vocal performance, I like your chords, slow deliberate playing, use of space between lyrics to keep the listener waiting... I hate songs that cram a bazillion words and lines into a song :)
Very nice haunting music, and SS's singing really catches hold of emotion here. I was hoping for a little more change between main theme and chorus, the chords and drum rhythms were a bit even throughout. Great guitar work.
good voice, nice lyrics, great power.
I noticed the title, because I also have a generative piece of music called "Fractal Serenity" (I am making a 3D music video for it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOROyAQBgDA ). After listening to and enjoying this music from you, I found the "SonicMood" software, and bought it! Thank you for the tip! I like your choices of instruments, and the slight reverb on this, warm and gentle. Did you use GarageBand for the final music recording?
Enjoyable track here... has a bit of a tasty game-soundrack sound. You'd probably enjoy my "Dance of the Technoids" music video as a chaser to this :-) (it is a YouTube video attached to the music description.) Second section is the perfect free-floating break to the drummy section, very dreamy. ttfn, Drakonis
Very sparse, pretty... love the drone and singing with the sparkly guitar work.
Cool slow theme, I can hear you spitting the lyrics through clenched teeth... the chaos-chorus does what you wanted, turns up the adrenaline... final spoken part is chilling. Hate to imagine what this has done to your life and blacksmith practice, ugh! Good musical therapy!