Sept. 24, 2009: Posted instrument tracks of a new song based on Dieter's "Far Away" - New music and altered lyrics to speak to today in South Africa. Will post the new lyrics soon . . .


June 16, 2009
Created submixes for Werner for "SO-WE-TO". If the song is to be performed, this should help the musicians learn the parts a bit easier. Werner is going to transcribe as well.


May 06, 2009
* New mixes of "Good Will, Good Hope" and "Rainbow Scatterings"

May 05, 2009
* Uploaded rough mix of Good Will, Good Hope (See the "My Music" section above)
Lyrics here: Good Will, Good Hope - lyrics.pdf

April 27th, 2009
Completed lead vocals for Good Will, Good Hope. (collaboration: Brian, Billy and Wairamu)
Relistening to earlier music I've written to Dieter's words, there may be one more song to finish with vocals.

April 6, 2009
Uploaded "Ave"
Anticipating the coming of Easter, I wrote this as a "Universal Hello" back to the Creator of all things. While the message carrier is the Latin "Ave" - the intention is to bring the listener to a place where they can say "Hello" to anyone, any place at any time in the spirit that we all are one humanity. We are here, together on this small piece of rock, on our journey around a medium-sized star; amongst the backdrop of a great and expanding universe.

Instrumentation: Women's Choir, Piano, Xylophone, 10 Celli, 2CB, Glockenspiel, Pipe Organ

Feb 27, 2009
Playing with drums/mallet percussion resulted in a fun jam: "Inyoni" Uploaded mp3 . . .

Feb 26, 2009
"Dream Over SA" Uploaded mp3 . . .

Feb 20, 2009
* Lyrics completed for the first collaboration with Billy, added piano to the track, edited the piece to ABABCAD, runs under 3 minutes. The song, now titled "Good Will, Good Hope" sings beautifully with the melody and lyric. Now to get to the vocals next week hopefully . . .
* Also, minor remix of !SO-WE-TO - Uploaded mp3

Feb. 18, 2009
* Found the melody for Billy's guitar idea, very nice.

02.17.09
* Completed Mix of SO-WE-TO, uploaded mp3

02.16.09
* Added lyrics to Dieter's to create new version of "A Word (Ubuntu)" to fit melody lines/harmonic structure. Began recording basic tracks.
*Rainbow Scatterings submix tracks completed and uploaded for Manuela (drums/perc, bass, gtrs, keyboards, vocals)

02.06.09
* All tracks completed on SO-WE-TO, first rough mix to Dieter

01.25.09
* Recorded lead vocals for "Soweto", additional harmonies, begin comp.

01.23.09
*Recorded background vocals for new version of "Soweto"

07.27.08
* Uploaded mix of "May 2008 - South Africa"
This is a constructionist piece consisting of the application of melodic and harmonic structures to human voices. The voice content tells the story of xenophobic violence in May of 2008)


07.05.08
* Uploaded basic tracks for new version of "Soweto"

07.03.08
* Added piano, hand percussion, wood flute ("Soweto")

06.29.08
* Completed basic tracks - new music for Dieter's "Soweto" lyrics

06.25.08
* Uploaded sub-mix of rhythm section-only mix of Rainbow Scatterings to the MF

06.23.08
* Remix of Rainbow Scatterings, maximization, EQ
* Working through Ac. guits and BG vocals for new music to Dieter's Intro (#1)Good Will, Good Hope - lyrics.pdfGood Will, Good Hope - lyrics.pdf