My Sister's Beautiful Heart
Genres: Alternative, Pop
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In her mid seventies, my sister has decided to learn Korean. I think it was spurred by her love of Korean K-pop music and the desire to understand the beautiful lyrics. This transformed into a thorough fascination with Korean...
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The Sandhill Crane Suddenly Recalls He’s a Dinosaur
Genres: Alternative, Electronic
My niece Sophia took these photographs. She is a wildlife conservationist who loves Sand Hill Cranes and had just gotten a new 300-500 camera lens. In this era of the war on our environment, I'm posting this just to...
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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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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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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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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...
Living With My Donkeys, SCORE for horn part
The Living With My Donkeys score is 11 x 14, covered and bound, 39 stiff card stock pages, with music, color photos and story line. I also send a thumb drive, SDHD card and/or CD which has the Donkey Bray part for...
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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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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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Piglet Sampler (1988)
Genres: Alternative, Pop
These five little fat pigs were written between 1988 and 1990 when I just had a used Ensoniq EPS sampling keyboard with an onboard sequencer. I recorded a few pizz sounds from an old violin I had, and a few other things--a...
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Shaker Weeds
Genres: Alternative, Pop
These are a series of little pieces written back in 1990. At that point I only had an EPS Ensoniq sampler keyboard--no dedicated computer. I sampled my little harmonica, a little drum, a tiny crotales bell, a meadowlark,...
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Sprites (1990)
Genres: Alternative, Ambient
These early (1990) pieces were composed on my EPS Ensoniq sampling keyboard, using only the sounds of Sprite pop cans jangling together, a small drum and a small tubular bell. I used a small 4-track cassette tape recorder to...
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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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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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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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Wyoming Wild Life
for Two Pianos and Electronic Sounds
Two piano piece with accompanying electronic music, written for the Hanna, Wyoming Centennial and sponsored by the Wyoming Arts Foundation. Involves inside-piano playing. Contact me for more information....
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My Sister's Recipes
for Soprano and Alto Choir, Orff Instruments with Electronic Sounds
Written for a young soprano/alto choir with Orff instruments, My Sister's Recipes is a set of three pieces with electronic sounds. The range goes up to high G. Contact me for shipping. This was commissioned by the Radford...
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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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Ear-Bird for Solo Recorder
Ear-Bird is a solo piece for recorder, range suitable for soprano, alto or tenor. Medium difficulty. Contact me for information on shipping....
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Egon the Little Goat Takes Control
Genres: Alternative, Pop
This little piece is made totally from clicking two rocks together and then a little toy cymbal. For more on the wonderful goat Egon and how I wrote this, click here. It was selected for the National Association of...
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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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Five Little Mountain Mice (1988)
Genres: Alternative, Pop
When I am in the mountains, I am very careful to hang my food high and keep a clean camp. Although I’ve never had a bear in my camp (that I know of), I’ve seen my share of them. The animal that most frightens me, however,...
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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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Bo & Theo Welcome Warren to Heaven
Genres: Alternative, Ambient
Soon after my first two dogs died of old age, my father died. A thoughtful theologian, I doubt if he believed in a heaven, but somehow the title seemed ok.... I remastered this piece I wrote way back in 1994. This used a...
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I Glimpse The Cliffs
Genre: Ambient
All the sounds you hear are from a tiny cymbal I have. For a description of how I wrote these pieces, please click here....
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Sarah Willis Receives MBE
Sarah Willis, horn player and human extraordinaire, has been included in Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth's Birthday Honours list to be awarded the title of MBE for her "services to Charity and for the promotion of Classical...
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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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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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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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