My Music

I have a well-equipped home music studio, which includes a big rack of software-based synthesizers. From time to time I rouse myself from my stupor long enough to compose some original music. Below are a few modest examples.

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Here’s a piece called “Cooking with Gravity”. This was done in 2003 using nothing but Reason 2.5:

Or you could listen to “The Wayfarer”. This uses real cello, and is in a rather mellow, accessible vein:

After doing a couple of utilitarian arrangements in which the synthesizers are called on to support a cello melody, I decided to take a break and do a piece that I had no pre-ordained ideas about. Just start something and see where it goes. “Dark Passage” turned out to be more beat-oriented than most of my music:

“Peace in Palestine” was recorded entirely in Propellerhead Reason 3.0, although the finger cymbal loop was imported from another program:

“Reassured” is a pleasant, unassuming piece:

“On a Broad Highway to Nowhere” is somewhat darker:

“Falling Away” is a sort of passacaglia, a mournful piece on a ground bass, though in this case the bass turns a few corners along the way.

“Desolation Dance” is one of the last pieces I did (several years ago now) using my old rack of hardware synthesizers.

If you enjoy the music, I hope you’ll leave a comment on this page. Musicians who work in the studio seldom get feedback from listeners!