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The Sugar in my Tea
A short piano piece that all spins out from the opening motto: "You are the sugar in my tea..."
Thanksgiving Snow
Short piano solo: Snow falls on the prairie.
Turquoise Migration
Piano, strings, and electronics on a journey across a strange, wide landscape. [more inside]
Procession
I am aiming for "grand, yet subdued". I see all sorts of magnificent people and dignified creatures parading slowly by. [more inside]
Le Bouquet Magique
This is another arrangement of a video game, but this time I wrote the original, as a Nintendo-compatible authentic chiptune, and then later turned it into this by improvising on piano, and sending it to my dear friend Jeff to play violin over it. My job BEST JOB OF WORLD.
Old Memory
A little song [more inside]
Non Senza Luce
Piano solo: short, mostly melancholy and dark, but...
Winter Song
A piano composition written a while ago at the end of autumn for the first snowfall.
The changing of seasons; the coming winter; delight in the sounds of children playing in the fresh fallen snow. [more inside]
Going
Nostalgia
This one has maybe the most tracks of any song I've ever made. [more inside]
For David
A song for a departed friend.
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Fruitbattery
A short piano solo! Minor key, triplet feel, maybe a little jazzy, better suited to Halloween than early spring, but what can I do? It's a free download at BandCamp complete with suitably batty artwork. [more inside]
Fly
DTMFA ballad. [more inside]
Rhapsody in January
Some Garageband piano. Apparently I'm ready for January already.
I Know It's You (Jeff, It's Roger)
I turned four years worth of voicemails from my brother into this song, and I gave it to him for his 39th birthday. [more inside]
Greetings to the Unknown
Fast catchy tune with a thumping chorus - but the piano takes the star turn in the verses. [more inside]
Separate Ways
Pensive piano interspersed with electronic outbursts and a broad, burbling middle section. [more inside]
Just A Veneer
Snarky Americana. Mostly about a girl I dated once who just lovvvveed reaching into my wallet.
The Mission
Whenever someone writes cross-genre, it always leaves you wondering what flavor their potpourri will take. When you see post-rock and shoegaze together, you might also have an idea of what you'll be hearing, but throw a piano in there, and you've caught everybody off kilter. That's what this song does, but nicely so. [more inside]
Collisions
Uptempo, hard-driving instrumental for synth+piano, with elements of trance and classical. First track on my Anthem of the Heart EP. [more inside]
Cobrinha
Something of a duck-billed platypus of a Brazilian tune. [more inside]
Come As You Are
Another Nirvana cover I recorded a while back and just remembered about today. MIDI keyboard + vocals. It was fun to see if I could cover this song without the signature riff.
two lovers
Gentle, warm, almost mantra-like song featuring guitars, piano, bass, lap steel, drums, bass, melodica, and vocals -- kinda sorta about seeing love as an art project. [more inside]
Short Ride in a Fast Chihuahua
A collage for Disklavier and Toy Chihuahua.
My toy dog always barks 26 times in a row. I asked composers to send microscores for piano, each 26 beats long, to be synchronized to the chihuahua's voice. Fifteen composers contributed about sixty scores. [more inside]
Stealers
A song from my album that I've just released through Tunecore. If you like it there's more listen links at my site www.groklock.com. Let me know what you think!
Ghost World
I put this up a month ago. I put some more effort into it. Samples include Bernard Parmegiani, Erik Satie, Glen Miller.
I was lonely
Samples, synths, feelings.
T+73
A short piano piece.
Higher
This is the probably most commercial thing I've ever written -- still not sure how I feel about it -- but it was completely accidental. I just had this little 3-3-2 piano riff going and started putting a bassline under it, and the whole thing kind of fell out. I resisted it for months because it seemed so obvious but eventually gave in. Drums are 1-take 3-mics from my drummer but I think they work pretty well.
The interesting thing is that the 1-bar piano riff continues through as an ostinato through the whole thing, never changing.
I guess it's Coldplay's version of Marvin Gaye's SEXUAL HEALING, or something. A bit of U2 in there too somewhere in the scritch scratch guitar that comes in in the second verse. [more inside]
Piano - 2 (progress)
Classical piano style experimentation. [more inside]
Strange & Beautiful (I'll Put a Spell On You)
My second Request Raffle challenge submission: a soulful song played on an out-of-tune piano! [more inside]
Allegretto (Fern Hill Farm)
A pastoral sound, with piano, cello, and English horn.
Music for Erik Satie #2
Another piece written as an homage to Satie. [more inside]
Music for Erik Satie #1
Short piano piece in homage to Erik Satie [more inside]
it's the now
Listening to some old songs of mine, I came upon this one from 2004. It's a rather sweet, romantic little thing written about a depressing period in my relationship at the time. [more inside]
Ray
Quick pretty ditty [more inside]
Largo (To A Pegasus)
For two flutes, piano and strings. The video version of the score was featured on Equestria Daily. [more inside]
Ochre Cloud
More experimental ambient sketching. Inspired by a sunset I saw today.
Your Destroyer
This is a rough mix of a nearly finished tune. Wanted to unleash it a bit early. [more inside]
Wonder Woman Theme
Intensely silly. [more inside]
It's Only Static, Arthur
Plink, plink, plonk. I wrote some piano music.
Backwards
As the unimaginative title suggests, this is my entry for the April MeFi Music challenge. It's an ambient type of thing, largely made from reversed guitar recordings. [more inside]
Song For Cyn
Sometimes you write something, and then forget you've written it, and then find it again while cleaning your computer. [more inside]
Midnight Improv #3
The third installment. [more inside]
Calm Lil Tickle
Fiddling with some down tempo piano [more inside]
Fantasia (4th movement from my Suite #1 for Piano)
For solo piano. Maybe a kind of dissonant minimalism. Definitely atonal. [more inside]
The Lonely Karmic Cop
Cover of Radiohead's "Karma Police" for the major/minor challenge. [more inside]
Relics
Just a pop song.
Basic Songwriting Tutorial
A short primer on one (my) method of songwriting. [more inside]
Midnight Improv #2
Another midnight noodling session before bed. [more inside]