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Alright, I have some explaining to do. If you've been following my blog about my recent album release, you might have noticed that I mentioned I was working on another project while recording the new album, Somebody Finding...

Walking With My Ocarinas

Genres: Alternative, Ambient

These four pieces are based on my experiences of goat packing in the mountains. I always bring my ocarinas for a bit of fun. All the sounds you hear are based on my ocarina playing. For a description (including some neat...

The Saucey Pack Goat

Genres: Ambient, New Age

For notes about this magnificent athlete, Saucey, and the programs I used to compose this, click here. The first movement, In Their Absence, was selected to be part of the Stairwells Installations of the National Association...

Meadowlark for Warren

Genres: Ambient, Alternative

This was a breakthrough piece for me, written in 1989 or so. I lived in a junkie old trailer in Evanston, Wyoming, where I was happily no longer working as a counselor for the seriously mentally ill. I was sitting in my...

Particles

Genres: Alternative, Ambient

Notes for Particles
I was working on trying to get as much movement and sound as possible from one
note, and got to the notion of elementary particles. 1. Just One Quark This was made from holding down just one note...

Practice Room Jams I

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John Price

Genres: Instrumental, Ambient

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I like to record my practice jams from time to time and thought it would be a great idea to share them with you. Here you get a glimpse at what goes on during my practice time. Some of these jams are complete meditations and...

Original recorded sounds

Genres: Alternative, Ambient

Repository of all the original sounds I recorded for sounds used in my music....

Living With My Donkeys :Bill Scharnberg, Horn & Synth Horn

Genres: Alternative, Ambient

William Scharnberg played a fantastic premeire performance of the entire set at the International Horn Symposium, summer 2024. The recording we got wasn't the greatest, so I'm in the process of remastering that. So some of...

Sweet Ghosts

Genres: Alternative, Ambient

All the sounds you hear are from recordings I made from my farm. To see how I did that, plus see some fantastic pictures of my dear animals, click here....

Practice Room Jams II

John P.

John Price

Genres: Instrumental, Ambient

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Practice Room Jams II Here we go again! New Practice Room Jams II for you. I often record my practice jams and thought it would be a great idea to share them with you. These recordings provide a glimpse into my practice...

Take Your Medicine

Genres: Alternative, Ambient

For notes on how I used the "pop" of the plastic cork of these two bottles to create this music, click here....

Our Great Friend Nook

Genres: Alternative, Ambient

Nook the Magnificent Sheep was a 4-hour old bum lamb when he went to live with Savanah Salisbury, a young 4-H student. For the first 6 months of his life, he lived in town, and became the darling of the neighborhood, going...

Charlotte Dreams of Winnowing

Genres: Alternative, Ambient

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A snipe is a bird which has the wonderful ability to soar down through the sky, making the air “winnow” through his tail feathers, producing a wonderful hu-hu-hu-hu-hu. He will make huge loops over and over, supposedly to...

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Traffica

Genres: Electronic, Ambient

Snow Snakes on the Road

Genres: Alternative, Ambient

All the sounds you hear are from recordings I made of varioius toy cymbals and bells, with just the attacks in most cases. Thinking my pieces were beginning to sound all the same, I decided to do a piece of just rhythms. I...

Living With My Donkeys STAND ALONE VERSION

Genres: Alternative, Ambient

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This recently received the International Alliance of Women in Music Honorable Mention for the Pauline Oliveros New Genre Prize. This is the Stand-Alone Version. Click here for the Donkey Bray part for the Horn Version. You...

Life in a Pandemic

Genres: Instrumental, Ambient

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This is a collection of "stubborn songs" and "old friends." Those ideas that you work on but never quite get into that groove, or it evolves into something you don’t like. So you put it down, and work on it another day. And...

The Evening Visitor

Genres: Alternative, Ambient

All of the sounds you here are from a bird call I recorded one evening from my window. I never heard it after that one time. For program notes and then technical details, please click here. The fourth movement, The Sun...

Music For Our Hands, vol. II - A Little Insomnia

Genres: Instrumental, Ambient

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"Don’t let the signature bow tie and Buddy Holly glasses fool you.... under this Clark Kent-like exterior lies a rock n roll heart! In a world full of show-off, technique for technique sake solo bass records, it’s refreshing...

A Frog's World of Love

Genres: Alternative, Ambient

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I was reading an article about Arnold Lobel and his Toad and Frog books from The New Yorker by Colin Stokes when, strangely at the same time, my friend Mark sent me some sounds of frogs he had heard on a walk in his Iowa...

Coyote Songs

Genres: Alternative, Ambient

When I was in the mountains I heard the most incredible coyote song. It echoed across the mountain valleys I was camped above, and off the canyon walls. Surely the coyotes knew what a wonderful place that was to sing. All...

Music For Our Hands

Genres: Instrumental, Ambient

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Solo album featuring the electric bass in an unaccompanied format. credits released June 1, 2016 Recorded 3/17/16 at Overneath Creative Collective, Kalamazoo MI
Recorded/Mixed by Gordon Van Gent
Mastered by Garrett...

Living With My Donkeys DONKEY BRAY PART

Genres: Alternative, Ambient

This is the Donkey Bray part for "Living With My Donkeys, for Horn and Donkey Bray." Contact me if you'd like a copy of the score and accompanying sounds on CD, MP3 or Card. Click here to see how I composed these pieces....

Pepper Chew's Balloons (1990)

Genres: Alternative, Ambient

First I'll tell you about Janelle Pepper Chew (long), then I'll explain how I wrote these little pieces (short). I worked with Pepper in 1990-91 at Central Wyoming College. She was Director of the TRIO Student Support...

Stryde's Drifter CarTunes

Genres: Alternative, Ambient

My nephew Stryde loves drifter cars. For a treat, I created a series of songs based on noises of drifter cars. For more on how I created the pieces, please click here. ...

Wintering Well

Genres: Alternative, Ambient

All the sounds you hear are from various pieces of frozen things around the farm during a -40 degree winter.... For notes about this set of pieces, click here.

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The Trees Sing For Mark

Genres: Alternative, Ambient

My friend Mark sent me some great sounds of trees rubbing against each other. All the sounds you hear are created from what he sent me. For more on how I wrote these, click here....

Skeleton

Genres: Instrumental, Ambient

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A collection of darker, more contemplative tunes, involving effects and a looping pedal. credits Released February 14, 2020 Recorded live at Overneath Creative, in Kalamazoo, MI...

Inside the Lion's Throat

Genres: Alternative, Ambient

My greatest fear when I’m packing in wilderness areas is encountering a mountain lion. I know how to avoid lightning, and am good at hanging my food to avoid bear encounters. I don’t travel in highly populated grizzly...

Music For Our Hands, vol. III - Chandelier

Genres: Instrumental, Ambient

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