For the second song in our collaboration, Justin Hart provided me with lyrics for a native American Indian song called No Man’s Land. He wanted an ethereal feeling at the opening, building to a big climax, and in the general style of a band called America. Justin also wanted to hear some harmonica in this [...]

I’m pleased to have a new song demo up, showcasing my MIDI rendering skills, songwriting, and production.  In this track, called Carefree Days, I used all virtual instruments, except for the voice, which comes from the talented Adena Cahill.  The lyrics are by Justin Hart, and I wrote the music, and did all the production [...]

Some say that the key to a realistic sounding MIDI performance is micro-quantizing of notes to create a human timing element. Positions of notes is certainly important, and their position relative to a grid depends very much on the style of music you’re writing, just like in real life. But there’s something more important than [...]

I’ve had quite a hiatus from sample library purchases of late, but recently I broke down and bought a small library that I’ve had my eye on since its release – Sample Modeling’s The Trumpet.  This library has a lot of feeling.  Here’s my first track…  a tribute to Miles Davis.  Very spontaneously improvised using [...]

Sylvie Proulx’s album of classical guitar that I recorded has finally been released on the Centaur label.  www.centaurrecords.com