I know, it has been almost a week since my last update. I’ve been slacking. All I have to show for it is nine new tracks totalling 31 minutes.
In the Horror Genre I did five new background pads; Heart of the Beast, Inner Sanctum, It is Lost, Spacial Winds, and The Voices. I also put up a children’s song… because it was creepy. Few things in life are as creepy as a corrupted children’s song. Someone is bound to build a horror movie around that thing.
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I also took a request for a crazy funky piece of music like what might be found in a certain genre of 1970’s… cinema (most probably Super-8 format)? That one is called C-Funk. I personally like ProtoFunk a little better for that sort of thing. But you can take your pick.
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In the piano section, I found an old piece that I thought I put online ages ago. Sapphire Isle.
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And now – the moment you’ve all been waiting for: The best contemporary piano solo in existence!
Sovereign.
That’s right. How often do I say something is ‘the best’? Or even ‘great’? Never. That is why you should listen to me. Here is my one piece of hype for me – a composition destined to become the Fur Elise of this century: easy to play, elegant, and most of all beautiful.
Money back is not impressed.
(oh boy, I’m going to get mail on this one!)

More odd music.

• Variation on Egmont

This is possibly the most accurate and worst title of my career. It is an electronic-soaked variation of a theme or 2 from Beethoven’s Egmont Overture. If you know the original work, and recognize the title, you’ll probably download and not like the piece – because it doesn’t have any of the brilliance of Beethoven’s pacing.
If you like dance/techno, you probably won’t download this because the title makes it look like something classical.
It has a weird polyrhythm feel because the Overture theme is in a different time signature than the rest of this piece. I did change up the theme in bits and parts, but I mainly kept the off-time feel. You can let it wash over you and be fine – if you think too hard about it – it gets… tough.
Ending is open to mix into your stuff cleanly.

Its new music!

• Hotrock

Yes, I know… quite a stunning title.
Starting scant days ago, I just got better reporting softwares for my web site. It is now apparent that people like the rock music… which is interesting – because I’m not very good at it, or at least I don’t _think_ I’m very good at it.
I don’t understand rock. I don’t understand what people like about rock. I just plain don’t get it.
What’s the difference between a good rock piece and a weak piece? I don’t know. If there was a seminar on the matter, I would probably attend. It might be one of those things you have to be brought up with to understand.
If anyone would like to forward their theory of rock music production to me, that’d be great. I have a feeling much of it will revolve around singing and lyrics, though.

A couple more piano pieces…

• Vision of Persistence
  
• Cryptic Sorrow
  

Both of these are very quiet and light.
“Vision of Persistence” is a piece based on a rhythm on a single note.
“Cryptic Sorrow” I put together as a response to a post in an earlier article about filmmakers looking for longer pieces of music for longer scenes, or scoring over multiple scenes.
I really wish I had more to say about these, but I was pretty tired when I recorded them, and I’m pretty tired now. So feel free to make up your own commentary on them.

An interesting impromtu with context!

• Moonstone

There’s quite a story, read on for elucidation.

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