"Dramatic Themes for Imaginary Scenes" (March 2023)

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The music on this album was composed between 2008 and 2012. Every single note was played on my trusty MIDI keyboard then sat on an old hard drive until I made time to master the cuts. The majority of the instruments are part of the EastWest Symphonic Orchestra Silver library. Some guitars, synthesizers, and percussion came from a variety of sources, including the Independence Free CM Edition released in 2008.

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"Joy" (August 2022)

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Outside of jazz projects I rarely compose instrumental pieces in a major (positive) key. All twenty-three cuts on this predominantly orchestral album were selected from over two-hundred themes I've produced since 2008 to fit the overall theme of "Joy." No loops or construction kits were used for the songs on this album, every note was played on my sturdy MIDI controller.

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"Music for a Dark Film (That Hasn't Been Filmed Yet) - Volume Two" (February 2022)

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I began composing the pieces on this album in 2008 and let them rest in limbo for about twelve years before making time to revisit them during the COVID-19 pandemic. Each track on every song was played live with a MIDI keyboard controller. Some cuts utilize a hybrid of orchestral & synthesized instruments. In the cases of orchestral instrumentation I strived to make sure none of the individual notes sounded impossible for real humans to play live.

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"Xperiments" (2009)

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The music in this collection was developed between 2001-2009. Some of the tracks are wholly original compositions. Others were constructed through the manipulation of samples & instrument loops. When reviewing these tracks after years of neglect I found they came together in a cohesive manner and decided they were worth releasing as a complete album.

Reviving the tracks for high-fidelity mastering was a bit of a chore since a lot of the apps I was using at the time they were created were not compatible with my modern computer. Thanks to the magic of VirtualBox I was able to clone an old Windows XP system, bring these cuts out of stasis, and push them to their highest audio quality.

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"Music for a Dark Film (That Hasn't Been Filmed Yet)" (March 2005)

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After spending many years gathering sampled instruments & synthesized sounds, I found myself drawn to producing dramatic & ambient tracks in late 2004. Most of the instruments were played live using a Yamaha DX-7 synthesizer to control the software sampler Mellosoftron III. Sharp-eared listeners will recognize the rare occasion when I shoved the controller through a quantizing program to generate abnormally perfect timing for some instruments. This album was composed & recorded December 2004 through March 2005 then remastered in May 2021.

"Music For A Dark Film (That Hasn't Been Filmed Yet)" was blatantly inspired by the works of John Carpenter & Brad Fiedel, strings & percussion influenced by the classic Kurosawa films I was ingesting at the time of production, includes a touch of David Lynch/Angelo Badalamenti atmospherics, combines a love of Peter Gabriel's introspective soundscapes, and is peppered with a smattering of digital decay as a result of the inexpensive sampling software I was experimenting with at the time.

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