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Adventures in Creativity Music. You can play the
music in lo-fi, hi-fi in sequence or shuffle them randomly. There is over 50 hours of
unique music that I created over the last several years.
If you want to own a piece, you can download a mp3 file at
the "music" on the "navigation box." If you want to purchase a CD or a DVD
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or see below.
About the Music
This original music was recorded
in my home studio on a Kawai grand piano.
The music evolves from the first notes I play on the piano. Like a conversation with the piano, I listen and something new is suggested. Sometimes the
piece is built on specific chord changes like a jazz musician improvising. But most of time I spontaneously compose the piece based on motifs I invent and chord sequences I create. Each time I attempt to do something a little different from the last time. Like speaking with a friend,
nothing is pre-planned but evolves through careful listening. Over time I have developed a specific music vocabulary and grammar that has become my piano signature.
The orchestral free improvisations began
when I started developing music for my new video called,
Concerto for Foxes,
Deer and Other Wild Ones. The pieces were
mainly created by freely improvising on two keyboard simultaneously, then
expanding the scores to other instruments in the orchestra. Afterward much
editing is needed to get to the sounds you now hear.
Forest Glistens Piano Improvisations to
the graphic painting and poem, Forest Glistens: Over
trees dew glimmers/ Becomes crystalline/ Water plunges
like diamonds/ Glint over rocks and you are changed/
Bright sparkles/ Leap from darks/ Morning dances to
song/
cool wave Piano Improvisations to
the poem, Cool Wave:/ Too cold to swim/ in your heart/
your regal cresting/ under overcast sky/ breaks, late/
after the storm/ when you gave me that/ cool wave
Night Drift Piano improvisation on the
painting and poem, Night Drift: “Good news and bad
news./ Which do you want first?/ Good news I’m buying/
Floating Leaves./ Bad news I’m closing the gallery / and
shutting down your show.”/ As gold turned brown,/ he
said, “I’m leaving--/ going with the leaves,/ wonder if
we’ll/ make it to the sea.”/
Blue Eclipse Piano improvisation by
John G. Young, M.D. to the images and poem, Blue
Eclipse: In transit/ from a distant universe/ curved
beyond/my trajectory,/ altitude and azimuth,/ beyond
time,/ you entered my space/ deep penumbral/strange/
celestial coordinates/ crossed my path,/ then left,/
umbral blue,/ with the faint circle/ of you
Apple Music set to poem, Apple:
Eve’s gift,/ belief to knowledge/ and naming things,/
exit the garden/ of infancy/ From that same tree/ fell,
woke Newton/ to the gravity of the matter--/ made
relative by Einstein/ Chapman’s simple life/ generous
seedlings/ nurseries along streams/ orchards of the
Northwest/ Territory/ Pink blossom fragrance/ juicy
drippings, sweet, sour/ tangy cider, stem to core/
bobbing, crunch/ green, red, gold
George Music improvised this
president's month with the following poem: red,
white and blue/revolutionary hues/ or is it red, yellow
and blue/primary colors with white/ the mother of them
all/ this presidential birthday month/ life, liberty and
the pursuit/ of happiness/ tritones await resolution/in
loving hearts
January 2006
New CD. It has been a strange difficult winter, but out of this
comes some beautiful contemplative keyboard music, recorded in
January 2006
in my home studio on a Kawai grand piano.
2005 MP3 Music Diary
This DVD contains over 20 hours of MP3 music [69 free-improv pieces]
that I recorded in 2005 in my home studio on a Kawai grand piano and
on my Kurzweil keyboard. The dates [year-month-day] show
when the music was created so the disc becomes a music diary of the
past year.
