I’m big on eating and Teresa is big on cooking. A match made in the kitchen. Here’s one of her recent meals that turned up in my today’s photo dump.

I imagine they would have found their way into his paintings…

Just a little riff I thought might be a good royal march for a short transitional scene in a movie. I probably wrote this in the 1990s or 2000s – sounds like about that era. I especially like the nifty chord progression at the very end.

Chris and I co-created the Dramatica theory of story. Whenever I flew down to visit him for business when we we working wit the CIA, NSA, and NRO using Dramatica for anti-terrorism, I’d stay at his place and then do a little extemporaneous composing on his wonderful baby grand. This is a recording from one of those sessions.

When I was setting up my studio a few years ago, things were sparse and unfinished, but I was eager to just hear some music in the place, so it just extemporized this little piece just to hear it resound off the walls.

As mentioned in an earlier post, back around 2010 I began developing a multimedia graphic novel project about an artist seeking his identity (represented by a theme called E J – already posted) and his alter-ego liberated self (represented by a carnival version of the E J theme (also posted earlier). THIS track is a test of how I envision the two versions working together when his normal self and his liberated self merge at the end of the story.

This piece is from the 2010s. It’s from a project of mine to develop a multimedia graphic novel about an artist’s search for identity. Anyone you might know? Anyway, in the story there is a normal theme for the main character E J and then a carnival version from his Muse-driven alter-ego, rather like the Fiddler on the Roof. This piece is a test of that more liberated, fun-loving theme.

I’ve always been fascinated by attempting to make discordant sounds work in context musically. This is one of my experiments in that vein from the 1990s.

This is something of a processional, perhaps for royalty or the Pope himself.