Finished recordings of these songs are on my albums. Hear them all on the Music pages.
Imagine!
- The Wish A short classical-style piano piece with a luscious synth pad behind it. It feels more like a transitional reprise than a complete composition. Needs Session MIDI file SVQ file Apple Music YouTube
- Running-Wind Trance with my own twist, and like most of my songs, very reliant on the piano. A theme-and-variation piece, as most trance is. Needs Session MIDI file SVQ file Apple Music YouTube
- A Light Heart An upbeat New Age-style song featuring piano with strong bass and drums and subtler strings. Needs Session, Bass & Drums MIDI file SVQ file Apple Music YouTube
- Meditative Very slow and relaxing, using only the Session board’s SylkyFilter patch, a custom piano built from Session waveforms, and a bell patch I found online. Quite meditative and very ambient. Needs Session SVQ file Apple Music YouTube
- Trazz A trance-meets-jazz piece: a steady rhythm with a strong bass, and an improvised New Age-inspired piano behind the lead melody. MIDI file SVQ file Apple Music YouTube
- Ethereal Rhythm Ambient, inspired by the K-PAX soundtrack and the Session board’s Ethereal JX patch (a fifths patch). Added: a quantized 1/16 GM vibraphone, a custom Session piano, light choir and a Session rhythm set for techno-like percussion. Needs Session SVQ file Apple Music YouTube
- Though You Play... My first composition with the Session board: a contemporary classical piece inspired by its stereo piano waveforms, with classical guitar, flute and “Mmmm” chorus patches. Needs Session MIDI file SVQ file Apple Music YouTube
- Follow My Lead A fast-paced electronic piece with a catchy rhythm and lead melody. SVQ file Apple Music YouTube
Nathan Sheldon
- Beginning Of Something A rock/New Age song reminiscent of John Tesh, with my own style (and flaws) mixed in. MIDI file SVQ file Apple Music YouTube
- As The Windmill Turns A short, rhythmic, upbeat song first written for a General MIDI module and converted to XP-80 sounds. It reminds me of Dutch folk music. MIDI file SVQ file Apple Music YouTube
- Flight An upbeat theme-and-variation song featuring my Pad Warmth patch. The ending feels too abrupt to me, but I like the rhythmic textures and the melody. MIDI file SVQ file Apple Music YouTube
- Each Day My first serious attempt at a lyrical song, about the emptiness after a loved one’s long absence. The expansion board is used only for the soprano sax part, which beats the internal sax (though that can be substituted). Read the lyrics. Needs Experience I (SR-JV80-99) MIDI file SVQ file Apple Music YouTube
- March Of Martians Originally written for General MIDI and reworked for the XP-80. Inspired by the Mars movement of Holst’s The Planets, but in 4/4 rather than Holst’s 5/4. MIDI file SVQ file Apple Music YouTube
- Nathan's Space Theme Very sci-fi, like a space adventure score, built entirely on three chords (arpeggios, really). Orchestral, needing no expansion boards, except for the “Trance Line” patch I found online, which sounds suspiciously like the Klingon ship sound in Star Trek: The Motion Picture. MIDI file SVQ file Apple Music YouTube
- Down Again A slow, sad piano piece in a minor key with synth strings, a wide dynamic range and a free rhythm. MIDI file SVQ file Apple Music YouTube
- In The Silence A simple, romantic, New Age-ish song: piano solo and improvised sections over a simple form. MIDI file SVQ file Apple Music YouTube
- The Brink A slow piano solo with synthesized thunder and rain from my Rain Storm patch. MIDI file Apple Music YouTube