The Not So Early Days

Theme: The Not So Early Days was a compilation CD of my early performed musical works. The music was originally created in the years 1993 to 1998. The only real theme is my development out of sound sculptures and works for solo instruments and nature sounds to my first working knowledge of the modern orchestra. I had finished graduate school, for now!

Experiences:Sound Sculpture continued to influence me, but I was also moving toward a more sophisticated form of music, the classical orchestra. My continuing education in music school was providing me with a number of new experiences and ideas that I was wanting to share with the world. I was writting work for Dance and utilizing my synthesizer as much as I could. It wasn't until I was finishing my M.M. that I was finally allowed to write a work for full orchestra and full choir. This CD is taken from music of that developing period.

CD Information: Copyright 2000, The CD was remixed from the original master tapes and the computer they were stripped to. I noted that the stripping process was the first to fall out on the tapes. Some of the songs had to be re-entered into a newer, more powerful, version of Cakewalk. I also worked very hard to make sure I used copyright free sound bites. I downloaded only from sites that, at the time, I trusted were telling me the truth about copyright free. In my efforts to keep the copyright laws I have never received payment for performance or download of any of these early works.

Listen to The Not So Early Days

Digital Prozak - Sound Sculpture and Music - Written for a compatition for an American Composers Forum program. It later aired on the radio show Terra Musica and Minnesota Music Scene throughout southern Minnesota and northern Iowa. The name comes from a friend of mine who I first played the work for. I needed a name for the work and I asked him for his thoughts. Immediately the words "Digital Prozak" came out, the name stayed.

Kyrie - This is a MIDI realization of my thesis for my Masters of Music. My thesis was written for full orchestra and full choir, but I didn't have the money to hire one for final recording. Maybe next time!

Amen - Written as a musical interlude between the sections of a mass I was working on it has the ability to stand on its own. You will hear a MIDI realization of this work for voice and choir.

Electron Symphony - Dancing electrons within silicon chips creates an unusual symphony. Written, in-part, for a project for music school. After the project I expanded it and permiered it a year or so later. I use a number of microtones in the original recording.

Water Works - This work started with the ideas I created in a previous project called "Mindscapes of the Vernal Equinox." I was writing a work for the Mankato State Dance Ensamble - Dr. Julie Kerr - Berry director when I came up with Mindscapes. After some "musicial fitting" of the original ideas this is the final project that eveyone danced too.