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Introspection One
Genres: Ambient, Instrumental
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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 I mentioned I was working on another project while recording the new album, Somebody Finding...
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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...
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The Saucey Pack Goat
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
Charlotte Dreams of Winnowing
Genres: Alternative, Ambient
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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Performance of Living With My Donkeys
Genres: Alternative, Ambient
William Scharnberg played a great 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 the pieces...
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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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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...
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Practice Room Jams II
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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...
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The Practice Room
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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...
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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...
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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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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....
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Wintering Well
Genres: Alternative, Ambient
All the sounds you hear are from various pieces of frozen things around the farm, enduring a 30 below winter.... For notes about this set of pieces, click here.
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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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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...
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Living With My Donkeys HORN VERSION
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...
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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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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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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....
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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....
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Sinister Ants (1990)
Genres: Alternative, Ambient
These three little pieces were written back in 1990 on my Ensoniq sampling keyboard with it's tiny 3 x 6 cm screen for the onboard recording sequencer. (In other words--this was before my computer, Cubase, sound effect...
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Pipe Dreams
Genres: Alternative, Ambient
All of the sounds you hear are from my banging away on various irrigation pipes--mostly out of irrigation frustration! Click here for more on how I did that, in addition to seeing some pictures of my little goat farm. ...
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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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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...
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Original recorded sounds
Genres: Alternative, Ambient
Repository of all the original sounds I recorded for sounds used in my music....
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Elk (ln The Mist)
Genres: Alternative, Ambient
For a description of how and why I wrote this, please click on the three dots to the right of the title, Elk, then View Details....
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