Category: Instrumental Music & Songs

AI-generated big band version of the song Siren’s Call – a duet of Odysseus and a Siren.

A jazz sextet number featuring 2 saxophones and 2 keyboards, drums, and bass. The piece is in 12/8 (4 triplets), and latin-inspired montunos (relatively continuous keyboard sequences) enter midway through. Diminished chord structures give the piece an angular feel. Score for the tenor saxophone parts can be downloaded here:

A rock instrumental that is an improvisation on my song Siren’s Call. Short video and the full audio track

A blues song about climate change featuring a steel slide guitar. To bring in an interesting edge, the guitar is being played in Eb minor against blues music in C major. The near overlap with the blues scale in C brings in a couple of dissonances with the dominant Eb riff and the underlying music.…

Odysseus and his men come out of a storm and encounter the sirens. The crew have a different view of the sirens though. Melody uses chromaticism and sequences of diminished chords, and features a trio of slide guitars meant to provide a haunting and luring sound.

A “future jazz” composition with surreal video. The inspiration began with Pinky’s Bar at 9:30 & E at burning man, but this was all lost as the music morphed completely into a gig set in the nightmarish depths of Twin Peak’s Black Lodge.

I wrote this in memory of the Cuban musicians in the Buena Vista Social Club.

Latin jazz composition with Peter Mustacich on saxophone.

A pop piano composition with instrumentation inspired by recent eclipses. Piano sheet music is available for download below.