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| Franz Schubert: Der Leiermann (Winterreise) by wiebkecontralto | 3 days ago |
 Superb vocal. Thank you for not using excessive (modern) vibrato and thus presenting the song as Schubert would've heard it. |
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| before the storm by woofer3 | 2 months ago |
| I like your songs, and the performance is superb, but more than anything, I like the sound of your files. I've purchased CDs recorded in a studio that don't sound half as good. | |
| The Flight of DnB bee by oaragues | 1 year ago |
| Yeh, at's pretty cool, and it does honor to the original, which was from an opera! | |
| 1st Move by SageSenSai | 1 year ago |
| It's . . . like . . . sloooowwwww . . . Perfect . . . for . . . c'n yew get . . . me . . . any . . . heroin ? | |
| Sophia Begets the Demiurge by KeithOtis | 1 year ago |
| A music video of this piece can be seen (with poor mono sound) at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHttm5IsRkc The video, as with all movies, takes certain liberties with the story line, but it does feature the presence of the late William 'Stage' Boyd. |
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| ORANGEBLUE Metal Art by eX1 | 1 year ago |
| Beautiful images, appropriate music, this is art. | |
| Veni, vidi, vici by MrBajen | 1 year ago |
| This is, I would say, the best music at this site. It is the best written, the best performed, the most advanced. I can't begin to imagine how you would devise such a thing. Congratulations to your daughter. |
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| Afraid of the Dark -- maniac rag by KeithOtis | 1 year ago |
| My Dear Ms. Grathy, there most certainly is a movie to which this music is set, and it's available right here at my page. | |
| Spy This by alanatomic | 1 year ago |
| Fine visuals, fine music. | |
| Come Back To Me- The Video by echoesbleeding | 1 year ago |
| That's so good, I don't know what to rave about first. Whatta singer! Whatta babe! What editing! What creativity! |
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| The Sermon of St. Francis to the Fish by KeithOtis | 1 year ago |
| Aw, anitric, you didn't even listen to the whole thing, did you? You merely came here in retribution for what I said about your boyfriend's piece, nicht wahr? | |
| Festival Suite Op. 2 by zeroAcademy | 1 year ago |
| Since most of the Classical files offered here are lethargic and boring, I hesitated to listen to your piece, but I was pleasantly surprised that it has a lotta life in it. Don't mean to nitpick, but a suite is a set of several different pieces played in succession. This is more of a Festival Overture. |
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| Victoria by AEROJET | 1 year ago |
| Adds an extra dimension to cool music. Harry Bosch (he of LA) would like this piece (actually, he wouldn't, but his bad girl-friends would). | |
| Return of the Doppelganger by KeithOtis | 1 year ago |
| Thanx, guys. And thanx also to the guy who posted a compliment to the old (uncompressed) version (before I took it down). He compared it to Yngwie J. Malmsteen, and that is obviously who I was imitating. I keep hollering to anyone who'll listen that there should be more rock and/or metal versions of the classics. That's where the finest chord changes are, the best melodies, the heaviest drama, the Sturm und Drang("storm and stress") and it's all in the Public Domain, so there's no worry about getting sued for stepping on someone's copyright. Just get rid of the violins and cellos and put in electric guitars and your imagination. I like the music, but I happen to think that instruments that are products of 21st-century technology simply sound better than those of 16th-century technology. Speaking of Yngwie J. Malmsteen, this leads me to my Yngwie story: I was at a club where Yngwie was appearing. The wall-to-wall Marshalls on stage were adequate for a stadium concert, and in the club they were painfully loud (had I been feeling pain that night). Despite my years, I was pushing and shoving near the stage with the kids. The high point (for me at least) of seeing Yngwie perform live is when he performs the Badinerie, the fast movement from J.S. Bach's Suite No.2 in B-minor. That's a really tough piece to cut on any instrument, but the Y-man always performs it flawlessly. I was so overwhelmed that I turned to the glassy-eyed kid next to me and shouted, "That music was written by J. S. Bach!" The kid looked at me blankly. It was if I had said The cube root of pi is not a prime number. Oh, well. |
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| I believe in Jesus devotional by ddball | 1 year ago |
| Fine a cappella singing. I notice that you don't wander off pitch much. That's not so easy to do. | |
| III. The Battle of Badar by KeithOtis | 1 year ago |
| In this track and the entire suite about Mohammed (peace be upon him), I make no judgment nor express any opinion as to whether Islam is good or bad. I simply used this topic because I thought I could use it to write an effective battle scene. The same is true of the other pieces with a religious theme that I've posted here: Sophia Begets the Demiurge (Gnostic Christianity) The Sermon of St. Francis to the Fish (Roman Catholicism) I'm just some guy who likes to write music that tells a story or depicts something, and I'm not an evangelist or a theologian, and I'm not trying to push my moral, political or religious beliefs off on anyone. I would, however, admit that while I was thinking those pieces up, I was so immersed in the topic that I felt I was a Muslim, a Catholic or a heretic -- if only for a little while. My big disappointment is that, so far, no one has guessed the meter of this piece -- how many beats per bar? |
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| The tSUNAMIS-The Dentures in Space by PiranhaLake | 1 year ago |
| So kewl! | |
| Improv No. 3: Fractal by Balok | 2 years ago |
Hey! That's . . . that's GREAT! Well, it's pretty good! Sounds like Michael Nyman. Have you listened to the music of Marjan Mozetich? Like you, he starts minimalist, then takes off from there into a neo-Romantic rush. |
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| Rock, Robot! Rock! by KeithOtis | 2 years ago |
| The feature article of the September, 2006 issue of Popular Science has a history of robots which reads almost identical to my song description above -- so much so that a friend suggested that I sue them for plagiarism. "Wouldn't work," I replied. "Their magazine has no diminished fifths or ninth chords." Still . . . remember, you read it here first! |
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| Feel the Rage by EvilFactman | 2 years ago |
THIS . . . is the song for us all! It may cause me to wake up in the middle of the night, check myself, and order a G6 (or whatever they're sellin') and fiberoptics. Thanx for telling our story! |
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| Rock, Robot! Rock! by KeithOtis | 2 years ago |
| Uhm, instead of Amazing, I wuz tryin' more for "Groovy!" But thanx! |
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| Les Pluie (The Rain) by RayLaVeau | 2 years ago |
Anything in Mixolydian mode (a plagal mode, no less) gets my vote. |
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| Structure of Stones by MissChaos | 2 years ago |
| Congratulations on doing something in triple meter, which is my favorite. At one time, at least in Europe and vicinity, 3 was the dominant meter -- consider Greensleeves, for example. Different instruments --perhaps a flute and guitar--would give this little gem an authentic Medieval sound. | |
| Chinese Gardenia by JaMen | 2 years ago |
 Hey! That's NOT BAD! I enjoyed it very much. Forget about the mix; the composition is highly original. I never thought anything this nice could be done using a pentatonic scale. But note that I'm biased in favor of things Oriental. |
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| Chevy Chase~Rag by VieuxCarre | 2 years ago |
This is the most extraordinary piece I've ever heard in my entire life. I'm of course familiar with Eubie Blake, one of America's greatest composers, but the superb performance and arrangement here knocked me down. The music has the lightness and quality of Debussy, but it also has a mischievous facet to it. I had to listen to this twice, and immediately downloaded it, to believe what I was hearing. I'll likely spend the next week trying to figure-out the chord changes. |
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| Afraid of the Dark -- maniac rag by KeithOtis | 2 years ago |
| Thanx. All the tunes are of my own hand, but I listen to a lot of rags such as "Jungle Drums" by James P. Johnson. (You can find superb MIDI versions of it on the Web.) I try for a dark, evil-sounding ragtime sound. I also have several other, similar rags posted at MacJams.com, but the sound isn't quite as good. The sheet music for this and other band music and easy piano rags is available for a nominal fee at http://members.sibeliusmusic.com/invictus Glad you enjoyed it. |
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