Below is a collection of music that I write, preform and produce using whatever instrument or device is at hand to generate and record sound. It is November 2024 and I currently possess few peripherals to enhance the sound quality and, compared to most home studios, a rather spartan list of methods used to create music in the first place. However, it is a starting point and in future music, hopefully I can add better recording equipment and improve my knowledge on how to play each instrument at my fingertips.
11/28/25 Impressions of an overnight blizzard at a mountain chalet and awaking to a blanket of sunlit virgin snow under a bright azure sky. To my friends, mountain lovers, and supporters, you were in mind as I wrote this, I hope you enjoy. This track, as with all my music, is LLM free and made with Authentic Intelligence without samples stolen from other artists. Everything generated on a single vintage keyboard. Yes, there are flaws aplenty, but if this music brings you any pleasure, be sure to like, share, and comment.
Exactly 3:00 minutes of 100% Authentic Intelligence – just me, a 25 year-old Kurzweil, and some studio software, I never use AI or stolen sounds. To be sure, there are moments when my timing is off as I am still regaining the use of my fingers, but surgery is likely to happen in the near future that may help. This latest is probably the cleanest sound I’ve made to date. Composed, played, and recorded by myself. A digital copy may be granted upon request if put to good use.
So Long, Chief, I’ll Be Seeing You – A Musical Tribute To My Father, “Chief”
On June, 22 2025, I laid his ashes to rest next to his wife, my mother Jeanne at Willamette National Veterans Cemetery, Portland, Oregon. He was always excited to share with me music he discovered or go out listening to live Jazz at a time when Portland was a real city full of life and a vibrant night scene.
This song is made on a Kurzweil PC88, a laptop Windows 11, Mix-pad music editing software, and and a 16 channel mixer. It is open for redaction or for anyone wishing to add tracks or remix. Stay to the end of the song, please, and thank you for listening.
The Dawning
I bring you my latest song in the spirit of a new day, a rebirth of sorts. I wrote this imagining a bucolic vista of tall grass as the dew glistens from the morning sunrise. You may gather an entirely different perspective, but my hope is to convey the spirit of enchantment and the innocence of youthful wonderment.
Will I See You
Dedicated to the lonely
To those longing for a friend, family or loved one during holidays. To lonely hearts everywhere. __________________________________________________________________
Sunday Driver
Sunday Driver: This is the second song made on the Kurzweil, I’m still not up-to-snuff on the MIDI functionality so this is all organically played, meaning I didn’t use any automated or machine made sounds, and certainly none of that so-called AI drivel. Every note was all played using my hands on the keyboard itself with those hands still a long way from recovered after the injury. I may never be able to play as I once did, but writing music is something I must do regardless. I know there are mixing issues, timing gaffes and so on, but I have none of those cool peripherals that make high quality recording possible, all I’m using is a 30 year-old keyboard and a 15 year-old laptop, that’s everything. I hope you like it warts and all. Let me know what you think in the comments.
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Neap Tide; This is the first tune on this list that I made using the Kurzweil PC88, a wonderful keyboard I am still very much in the process of learning.
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NOTE: Every song below this line was made using the Nano Studio application and an ordinary laptop. Using this method takes an enormous amount of time to generate WAV files or alter existing audio samples of instruments such as violins, cellos, etc. in order to make a coherent tune of any kind. All songs are my creations and not a cover or remake of other people’s work.
Motive Power; Objectivist’s – [IYKYK] This tune is made with the image of locomotion’s, dynamos and humankind’s ability to harness tremendous power and channel it into something beautiful. Heads up to my badass cousin Robby; eat a bag, bruh!
A Nano Studio project created using a 2013 Dell laptop. No samples used other than a basic drum for rhythm, the other sounds are baked into the app and manipulated using the built-in virtual synth. All comments welcome. *******************************************************************
Everything below this point are compilations, or “mixtapes” of music I like and posted up on Mix-Cloud.
Neoteric Wood Art 