Ambient
SYNTH HORN added to Living With My Donkeys
Genre: Ambient
This is the version of Living With My Donkeys with me playing the horn part on a synthesized horn (ie, playing a fake French horn on a keyboard--yeuch!) BUT, it will give you an idea of how the pieces will sound when the...
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Wintering Well
Genres: Alternative, Ambient
For notes about this set of pieces, click here.
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Blizzard From Within
$3.00
Blizzard From Within is a 21 minute free improvisation in a new style I am exploring which I call Ambient Expressionism. I seek to bring together both calm large scale moods with dynamic twists of emotions.
The piece...
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Living With My Donkeys HORN VERSION
Genres: Alternative, Ambient
HORN VERSION: This is the Donkey Bray part for "Living With My Donkeys, for Horn and Donkey Bray." You can download both the music and a PDF file of the score by clicking on "Download all" just below the photo on the...
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Music For Our Hands
Genres: Instrumental, Ambient
$7.00
Solo album featuring the electric bass in an unaccompanied format.
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released June 1, 2016
Recorded 3/17/16 at Overneath Creative Collective, Kalamazoo MI
Recorded/Mixed by Gordon Van Gent
Mastered by Garrett...
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Recorded/Mixed by Gordon Van Gent
Mastered by Garrett...
The Night Ocean
$2.00
The Night Ocean is the Finale to my premiere album, 43. It's a calm summary of my accomplishment of over 100 minutes of improvised music.
The name comes from a poem by Rumi in which he describes the feeling of floating in...
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Living With My Donkeys STAND ALONE VERSION
Genres: Alternative, Ambient
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...
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Tiki Man
Genres: Ambient, Adult Contemporary
$1.25
We all have a Tiki Man Watching over us. Tiki Man is a combination of spirit guides that are helping me get through this crazy life. Whenever something unexplainable happens I believe it's a force flowing from them.
This...
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Life in a Pandemic
Genres: Instrumental, Ambient
$7.00
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...
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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...
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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...
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Skeleton
Genres: Instrumental, Ambient
$4.00
A collection of darker, more contemplative tunes, involving effects and a looping pedal.
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Released February 14, 2020
Recorded live at Overneath Creative, in Kalamazoo, MI...
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Music For Our Hands, vol. II - A Little Insomnia
Genres: Instrumental, Ambient
$5.00
"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...
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The Evening Visitor
Genres: Alternative, Ambient
For program notes and then technical details, please click here....
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Meadowlark for Warren
Genres: Ambient, Alternative
For a detailed description, click on the three dots to the right of the title, Meadowlark for Warren, then View Details....
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The Rhubarb Stalks
Genres: Alternative, Ambient
My sister, pictured here with rhubarb from her garden, tapped out a couple sounds on those rhubarb flower stalks for me. All the sounds you hear in "The Rhubarb Run" are from that initial tapping (which you can hear in the...
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Small Bites
Genres: Alternative, Ambient
Small Bites is a collection of little experimental bits which I'm hoarding for use in longer pieces. For my notes on how and why I wrote this strange little Pretzel Focaccia, click here....
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The Drought
Genres: Instrumental, Ambient
$4.00
Taking solo bass into the realm of soundscapes and South Indian music, the combination of Jonathan Moody and Jen Tonon fuses a wide variety of genres and cultures together for an inventive EP.
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Released April 3,...
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A Frog's World of Love
Genres: Alternative, Ambient
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...
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Music For Our Hands, vol. III - Chandelier
Genres: Instrumental, Ambient
$5.00
Jonathan Moody - Hilton Workhorse 5 string fretted (1, 3, 4), Eastwood Airline MAP 4 string fretted (2, 5)
Dennis Morehouse - Drums (1, 4)</br /> Anabel dFlux - Photo Recorded & Engineered by Jason Achilles...
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Dennis Morehouse - Drums (1, 4)</br /> Anabel dFlux - Photo Recorded & Engineered by Jason Achilles...