some work in progress

so many ideas all crowd around competing to explain this, and yet few actual words come to mind to say the clouds are crying time sweeps us away

spies

i awoke from a nap, and i seemed to have had a highly spiritual dream, yet sadly, i could not remember it, and upon opening my eyes, there was my cat staring at me.

an experiment in drum loops played on instruments, plus other stuff. had some fun making the ending. polyester never wears out

a day in the life of a...

perhaps the music for the opening wide shot of a city of tents

extraordinarily corrosive

two five three

an experiment with timing and phrasing from a public domain SATB arrangement http://musicasacra.com/books/hymns/pbeh_silent_night.pdf check out this image: http://mgpc3.as.arizona.edu/images/Night%20Sky%20large2.jpg Merry Christmas!

a song with a Russian flavor?

this is a remake of a song i taped sometime around 1976. i started this project over a year ago... i'm glad i finally completed it. it's all done in GarageBand - i did not touch a guitar for this.

space is really big. time is really big. considered together they are astounding! it takes about one hundred thousand years for light to get across our galaxy. it takes about two hundred forty million years for our sun to orbit our galaxy.

looking below the surface juvenile water-breathing lifeform seeing silver reflections above adult air-breathing organism looking below the surface juvenile water-breathing lifeform seeing silver reflections above adult air-breathing organism looking below the surface juvenile water-breathing lifeform seeing silver reflections above adult air-breathing organism

this one's for me

take control

a romp through ~~~~~~~~ sound effects used in this song: http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=32930

music for a time lapse video of my street getting paved

a meditative tune for you straighten out, resolve calm, relieve come to rest; fall make one's home live in a certain place make, become suitable for something perform service bring to successful conclusion; reach a goal formally judge become or make prepared, adapted i was experimenting with guitar on tape echo, and have a few ideas prepared for a few future songs. one of those ideas got used here. i was experimenting with a computer program to generate chord progressions. this one popped out as a solution for a sequence of tetrads joined by changing only one note at a time by a half or whole step down. it's an alternation of M7 and m7 chords: Em7,CM7,Am7,FM7, Dm7,BbM7,Gm7,EbM7, etc... this song is an elaboration of these two things.

Ceremony For the Living if anyone cares, i recently went to a funeral and was once again reminded of the fact that funerals are not for the dead but rather for the living ~~~~~~~~ sound effects used in this song: http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=40626

a cross section of all people who are celebrating in all ways imaginable effortless attitude becomes a call for new found optimism an experiment with chopping up my vocals and mashing altogether some drum loops plus a few carefully modified bass loops

sometimes you must walk in the road somehow i wondered if there might be spiritual overtones in this. not sure. this song occurred to me after listening to Knopfler's album "Get Lucky" a few times. except for the drum loops, it's all my own material. at first i thought a vocal melody would evolve out of this, but it never jelled. i suppose an oboe is not a standard instrument in this genre whatever it is. maybe not a flute either.

for the Hallowe'en Challenge 2009

lyrics:

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. "Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!" He took his vorpal sword in hand: Long time the manxome foe he sought -- So rested he by the Tumtum tree, And stood awhile in thought. And, as in uffish thought he stood, The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, Came whiffling through the tulgey wood, And burbled as it came! One, two! One, two! And through and through The vorpal blade went snicker-snack! He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back. "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. `Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. Jabberwocky: Lewis Carroll

fraught with symbolism

For the MJ Bond Theme Challenge Sean Connery time warped into ca. 1990 007 flick. The usual. ~~~~~~~~ sound effects used in this song: http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=71740 http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=71739 http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=71738 http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=39066 http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=56900 http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=30749

For the Space Race 2009 Challenge My place in space is the human artifact that is farther away from the Earth than anything else yet. Except for the voices, all sounds were done using the Crystal Synth plugin. "As the Secretary General of the United Nations, an organization of the 147 member states who represent almost all of the human inhabitants of the planet Earth, I send greetings on behalf of the people of our planet. We step out of our solar system into the universe seeking only peace and friendship, to teach if we are called upon, to be taught if we are fortunate. We know full well that our planet and all its inhabitants are but a small part of this immense universe that surrounds us and it is with humility and hope that we take this step." http://goldenrecord.org/sounds.htm http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/goldenrec.html

time slips through your fingers like mercury... http://www.wordsources.info/mercury.html

a late summer night without permission

trying to make a space race tune, accidentally made this instead ~~~~~~~~ sound effects used in this song: http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=9377

a point in the space-time continuum The Entertainer, Scott Joplin, 1902

a little traveling through time, perhaps?

They're coming. They're gonna kick our old asses out. They're gonna take over the world. Here they come!

This song is based on the 16 beat LIOLI9 loop, Dance Floor Pattern 43, with beat number 7 removed, to form a 4+3+4+4 compound time signature. The original loop instrument appears in the background as a drone, particularly at the end. The loop also is played on a guitar synth here and there. The loop is used as the basis of the drum rhythm patterns and for the piano pattern at the start of the instrumental build. And finally, the loop is also the starting point for the melody. lyrics background: The name of the challenge loop is part of the ideas in the lyrics. Perhaps this song is about how I decided forsake music to pursue another career? Or an apology to a long lost high school sweetheart? Or some sort of vague feeling of regret? instruments: Gibson L00 acoustic guitar, capo various GarageBand synths pencil tool chords: (capo on 3rd fret) Am-/- /// G-/- /-/- F-/- /// D-/- E7-/- C-/- /// D-/- /-/- G-/- /// C-/- E7-/-

lyrics:

I Dance My Way To You (verse 1) When we danced at our school And we'd float 'cross the dance floor It was fun drifting far apart When we knew by the end We'd be back together (verse 2) At the close of that song When I split for employment It was fun being on my own Living life, chasing dreams And finding a purpose (chorus) Every day There's a million lives There's a million lies That we can tell to ourselves Many days, many ways The water under the bridge But I always knew I'd dance my way to you (verse 3) Many years have gone by I forgot all about us And our song on the radio Doesn't sing to my soul I'd heard it too many times (c) 2009 Bill Grundmann

Cheetah teeheehee (you know what I mean)

lyrics:

I Dance My Way To You When we danced at our school And we'd float across the dance floor It was fun drifting far apart When we knew by the end We'd be back together At the close of that song When I split for employment It was fun being on my own Living life, chasing dreams And finding a purpose Many years have gone by I forgot all about us And our song on the radio It doesn't sing to my soul I've heard it too many times Every day There's a million lives There's a million lies That we can tell to ourselves Many days, many ways The water under the bridge But, I always knew I'd dance my way to you (c) 2009 Bill Grundmann

having a very, very laid back party has never been easier... ~~~~~~~~ sound effects used in this song: 20080405.outdoor.party.mp3 (http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=51610) By dobroide (http://www.freesound.org/usersViewSingle.php?id=8043) Party then screams.wav (http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=23155) Party then screams 2.wav (http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=23154) By FreqMan (http://www.freesound.org/usersViewSingle.php?id=92661) crickets, et al, out my window

A mixed mood piece. The joy of summertime and being with you, the sadness of knowing it will be gone soon, yet the hope that it shall return again someday...

We're all being fed a pack of lies, aren't we? Just playing here with loopinations.

Are we really living in a world where most people are concerned mostly about themselves? Matthew 6:3 This started from the bass line and grew from there. I had no idea where this was going. The freesound voice samples finally made this snap into place. ~~~~~~~~ sound effects used in this song: mootching.wav (http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=3200) pay_up_mootcher.wav (http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=565) 20070619 130507 buddha gebed borobudur.wav (http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=38280) By TwistedLemon (http://www.freesound.org/usersViewSingle.php?id=29)

The outlines containing the words that characters in a cartoon are saying.

Life is going along all merrily. Then some famous person dies. And another. And another. It makes you stop and think.

inspired by Bud's tremolo song Slipped Away

1. Forcibly separated into two or more pieces; fractured: a broken arm; broken glass. 2. Sundered by divorce, separation, or desertion of a parent or parents: children from broken homes; a broken marriage. 3. Having been violated: a broken promise. 4a. Incomplete: a broken set of books. 4b. Being in a state of disarray; disordered: troops fleeing in broken ranks. 5a. Intermittently stopping and starting; discontinuous: a broken cable transmission. 5b. Varying abruptly, as in pitch: broken sobs. 5c. Spoken with gaps and errors: broken English. 6. Topographically rough; uneven: broken terrain. 7a. Subdued totally; humbled: a broken spirit. 7b. Weakened and infirm: broken health. 8. Crushed by grief: died of a broken heart. 9. Financially ruined; bankrupt. 10. Not functioning; out of order: a broken washing machine. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/broken

oops... darn

run!

sometimes i feel like i live in a symbolic world

lyrics:

Remodel the time has come to strip off the walls right down to the studs this room was getting old and disused time for a new start take it all down all of it it's time it's time to measure twice and cut once and maybe measure again and cut another time we've got big dreams about this space it's gonna be nice when we're done right now there's a lot of bare wood hangin' out just covered with dreams i don't know hopefully it's gonna work out we've had to rethink things several times, already and it's not gonna be the last time, i'm sure and you know the way houses are there's always some weird thing you gotta work around there's this cleanout on one of the drains that's right where i wanna have this transition in the ceiling and we're gonna have to do some weird removable thing so we can get there without destroying everything should we ever have to use it again (count yourself lucky if you don't know what i'm talking about) and i'm sure it's not up to code there's not enough outlets hopefully we can get all that license stuff sorted out we'll see i don't know lots of strange stuff here however when we're done it's gonna be a nice space for the kids i think it's gonna work out really good the cats are totally blown away by all of this they always hate it when you change the space they live in (c) 2009 Bill Grundmann

imagine a film about the last shuttle mission to upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope. at the end of the film there is a seemingly endless list of thousands of names of all the individuals that contributed to the film and the project. there's the list, white letters with a drop shadow, scrolling over on an amazing still of a starscape. think about all those people. their dreams, their families, their lives. think about all the babies born during the project. think about the people that died during the project. scrolling by.

an electro, instrumental-only, variation of SAILOR OUT TO SEA

i don't know anything

lyrics:

No For Won Won i wouldn't know about these things why should i? i'm never privy to any information that's of any relevance whatsoever so how could i possibly know about it? it just seems suspicious that's really as far as it goes i have no information (c) 2009 Bill Grundmann

"TYOD V THN XFQDE, V KFQDM FQP PYHP PYO IVE PFO HBTHXN ODMN QG CHAVDE H YFBO VD PYO NFSA, NF V NPFGGOM TOHLVDE NFSAN." - HBIOLP OVDNPOVD

You can fly! http://www.yankodesign.com/2008/01/24/flying-stick-camera/

she saw dolphins

spring is a great time to appreciate life

The man credited with the longest moon walk in history when he was a member of the much-lauded Apollo program in 1971, has called on the U.S. government to end its cover up concerning alien life. Former Apollo astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell addressed the National Press Club on the subject earlier this week after attending a conference dedicated to the research of UFO existence. "We are being visited," he told reporters. "It is now time to put away this embargo of truth about the alien presence. I call upon our government to open up... and become a part of this planetary community that is now trying to take our proper role as a spacefaring civilisation." http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/200917/3530/Former-Apollo-astronaut-calls-for-end-of-UFO-cover-up-by-U-S-government

walls for the wind, and a roof for the rain and drinks beside the fire laughter to cheer you and those you love near you and all that your heart may desire

it's a puzzle a familiar classical melody transformed into something else

ah, yes

recently got an expansion pack as a birthday present. new instruments! that always inspires new ideas... ~~~~~~~~ sound effects used in this song: hey.wav (http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=30989) By UncleSigmund (http://www.freesound.org/usersViewSingle.php?id=95609) pandora huuto2.wav (http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=45604) By jukkis111 (http://www.freesound.org/usersViewSingle.php?id=507974) Men Shouting Hey.wav (http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=57204) By Jace (http://www.freesound.org/usersViewSingle.php?id=60285)

passing through doors

the next step of your trip... Galaxy Band 1 Galaxy Band 2 Galaxy Band 3 Galaxy Band 4 Galaxy Band 5 Galaxy Band 6 Galaxy Band 7 Galaxy Band 8 Galaxy Band 9

lyrics:

G A L A X Y B A N D T E N i am dreaming ======[ten]====== i can sense the flashing light that tells me begin lucid dreaming ======[nine]====== dunes evolve before my eyes dry lakebeds captured footprints of the last of its kind we must not leave our last here earlier: in the mountain forest past the pine and cedar past the treeline radio telescopes pick up the signals amplified on my console it sounds like crickets in August the headphones are hurting my ears as i struggle to hear something 40dB down in that noise ======[eight]====== voices a sudden intake of breath it's me prior to being ejected from the event horizon time and space sort themselves out backwards the blinding fades to blind ======[seven]====== the black of space is like deep water i know i cannot breath water yet i am swimming gliding in widening circles a slipstream line integral gaining free energy on each pass impossibly ======[six]====== someone is bowing the curved air into a theremin singing saw no, it's a penguin i'm thinking portamento but why? ======[five]====== before that organic metal structure floating before me in an empty savanna i rub my eyes tired? no unbelieving no one expects an unexpected solar eclipse ======[four]====== a groove from another galaxy teeming millions screaming my sound is collapsing in to myself faster than light can move as a black hole to a singularity ======[three]====== lying down earbuds in harpsichord an aural vision ensued voices from heaven? or a little A'Le'Inn? ======[two]====== auggie lies on the floor by my feet as i move as a marionette as i enter notes to tracks ======[one]====== save your changes? yes now i remember a beatific smile ice cream and a name: tadashi ======[zero]====== awaken (c) 2009 Bill Grundmann

all aboard the HMS Beagle and the Sorcerer II

One of a kind.

dream!

a study for Galaxy Band X minimal sound ray tracing algorithm one reflective surface: the ground moving the source in (x,y,z) use headphones

riding home with you in that cab last night we're exhausted and my mind is playing games silently we sit in the shifting light and i watch you

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the words of fear from my two and half year old granddaughter, a day after the power came back, after having been out for four days

shhh...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_cycle

One Weekend...

Many thanks to Dandelion_Pharm for making the drum track available for collaborations. ~~~~~~~~ sound effects used in this song: ohm_singing_cool2_cut2.aif (http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=62562) By thanvannispen (http://www.freesound.org/usersViewSingle.php?id=13258) powerwords-english.wav (http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=8323) By levinj (http://www.freesound.org/usersViewSingle.php?id=19603) Candy Now.wav (http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=9581) vamp.wav (http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=9584) By Babylon_Horuv (http://www.freesound.org/usersViewSingle.php?id=26908) wcD_fragsA6.aiff (http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=15859) By hanstimm (http://www.freesound.org/usersViewSingle.php?id=96) warming.wav (http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=31914) By Erdie (http://www.freesound.org/usersViewSingle.php?id=118241) GlobalWarming_Joyce.wav (http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=31911) GlobalWarming_Daniel.wav (http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=31910) GlobalWarming_Mike.wav (http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=31913) GlobalWarming_Marg.wav (http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=31912) ExcessiveExposure.wav (http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=33711) By acclivity (http://www.freesound.org/usersViewSingle.php?id=37876) I am by Jaume Ferrete.wav (http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=34529) By cognito perceptu (http://www.freesound.org/usersViewSingle.php?id=57789) RTS Ghost I hide in the shadows.wav (http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=37294) By Xythe (http://www.freesound.org/usersViewSingle.php?id=61278) Sound-Free.wav (http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=46444) By dangerbabe (http://www.freesound.org/usersViewSingle.php?id=7813) henk09_sound_must_be_free_militant.wav (http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=50147) By freesound (http://www.freesound.org/usersViewSingle.php?id=173513)

Ponderous

By Grabthar's hammer, by the suns of Warvan... You shall be avenged.

autumnal colors