Category: Music

These are a few of my favorite things.

Paying homage to a loved one…

This a New Orleans -style zen blues chant. Thanks to Noah and Zoë Thompson for lending their vocal talents. Lyrics Oh the great depression has come back again I’m gettin’ my food outa garbage cans I’m goin’ downtown gonna see my friends gonna forget my troubles while the bands are playin’ I ain’t got no […]

The idea with this song was to set haiku to music, using the same structure as that which governs haiku: 5-7-5 syllables. So this song is in alternating sets of three measures with time signatures of 5/4, 7/4, and 5/4. Alternatively, one could probably argue that the song is actually in 17/4, but either way […]

One of the most painful experiences surrounding my mother’s death was spending the night in my childhood home after the funeral. It was so silent, something it had rarely been when I was growing up. Not long prior to Mom’s passing, I was fortunate to have had my iPhone handy to capture her playing the […]