#14-Sad Movie Theme Goes Bad

#14-Sad Movie Theme Goes Bad

A Very Promising Theme Written for a Sad Scene in a Movie…What Could Possibly Go Wrong? (transcription below) I’ve written a few movie scores and had a few tracks placed on TV shows. What I’ve come to learn, though, is that due to my musical ego,...
OHM Returns

OHM Returns

Harvest Moon The One Minute Songs Return—and not a second too soon! One Human Minute by Peter Saltzman I love my one-minute songs like the brilliant, recalcitrant children they are. But I needed a break from them. And they from me. The universe has a way of telling...
#12: The Emperor Has New Clothes

#12: The Emperor Has New Clothes

Ways to Listen: A bluesy improvisation on the theme from the slow movement of Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto inevitably leads me down the path of noninevitability. (transcription below) But why did it lead me back to Leonard Bernstein for the 2nd episode out of...
Episode #11: Art ± Technology = Art

Episode #11: Art ± Technology = Art

Ways to Listen: My recording equipment was flipping out (or maybe It was me). Which may seem like a hindrance to artistic expression but then I realized that the flipping out was part of the flipping art! (transcription below) I’m trying out a new audio...
Episode #10: This is A Blues?

Episode #10: This is A Blues?

Ways to Listen: I Try to Write a Blues That Doesn’t Really Sound Like A Blues…but only if You’ve Already Decided What A Blues Sounds Like (transcription below) What is a blues? A genre? Musical form? A scale? It’s all of those things and more...