This is another nugget from the archives. I love the tradition of the train song. I’m not sure how long the locomotive was around before some musician heard one and said to themselves, “You know, that thing makes a pretty good shuffle.” Probably not that long. The elevator in my building does a convincing bossa nova.
Musicians hear music everywhere.
This is a song I wrote more than ten years ago. I intended to add some vocals, but after a decade, it’s probably too stale to bother with. I’ve always…
Over the Thanksgiving holiday, I decided to try writing a piece for wind quintet. I set myself a one-week deadline. At the end of the week, I had this.
To celebrate the relaunch of BPO, we’ve dug up some previously unreleased music from the archives. This one is called Drty Planet. I imagined it as the theme song to a 90s science fiction show that wouldn’t have aged well. It was recorded sometime in 2020 at the old studio in Shiloh, IL.
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Today, I’m relaunching brainpanonline.com with its original branding. I started this website on September 23, 2004. Its mission was to serve as a personal thought dumpster for projects I was working on, random musings, or whatever else I felt compelled to share. That was over 20 years ago. Old enough that it still made sense…
I’ve started reading Walden, by Henry David Thoreau. Amazon describes it like this: In 1845, Henry David Thoreau moved into a cabin by Walden Pond. With the intention of immersing himself in nature and distancing himself from the distractions of social life, Thoreau sustained his retreat for just over two years. More popular than ever,…
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