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My Sister's Beautiful Heart
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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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Walking With My Ocarinas
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
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
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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Ambient
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
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...
Read more
Charlotte Dreams of Winnowing
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...
Read more
Meadowlark for Warren
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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Electronic
The Sandhill Crane Suddenly Recalls He’s a Dinosaur
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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New Age
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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Pop
My Sister's Beautiful Heart
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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Shaker Weeds
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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Five Little Mountain Mice (1988)
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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Piglet Sampler (1988)
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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