Welcome to 'Lovers of Trance and New Age' and thanks for joining. Feel free to use our forums for any music-related discussion!

Thanks for swinging by! Happy Mother's Day if it applies! Oddly, I had just begun to listen to my one pure harp piece, [track artist=Tim Doyle]Exhibit A[/track] when I spotted you! Glad to see you and Catherine Duc have run into one another!

Hi Sherri, thanks for your nice message and I see you're a musician too - will check out your music now :) Nice cat in your pic by the way!

Thanks for your friend request ;-)

Greetings from Germany ;-)

Speaking of New Music, I was the kind of kid for whom John Cage was a childhood hero, along with LaMonte Young and Hiller & Isaacson who programmed the ILIAC Suite back when computers were the size of rooms and took hours to compute a few bars of music.

I think you would enjoy my group [group]Deep Listening[/group]. Many of the artists in your library are connected or form a part of the larger group on the Artist Radio.

I have (I think) four other harp-infused pieces... One is [track artist=Tim Doyle]Bower[/track], with viola, cello, two MIDI leads (Lead 5 Charang and Lead 8 Bass+Lead) forming a curiously baroque quartet with the harp and acoustic guitar acting as a pair of shepherd moons keeping them flowing in their orbits ([url]http://www.unbecominglevity.com/2004/04/24/shepherd-moons-pandora-prometheus-cordelia-ophelia-galatea-and-of-course-enya/[/url]). Another is [track artist=Tim Doyle]Blue Hour[/track], with a proper string quartet and two harps dancing attendance, accented by a pair of tubular bells standing in for vesper bells. The other two are racous 12-tone pieces on the album punningly entitled [album artist=Tim Doyle]Harpies[/album]. The "Gavotte" version is actually a layered rendition of the first track forming a very short-cycle rondo with three layers giving it an allegretto 3/4 feel.

Welcome to [group]Chez Musinum[/group]! If you like, you may introduce yourself and your projects / passions / obsessions in our "Welcome" discussion thread. And if you'd like to be Minister of something, let me know... (Your music has been connected to [group]Chef Musinum[/group] and will begin to stream on Chef M. Artist Radio, and it also also tagged [tag]Chez Musinum[/tag] to stream on Chez M. Artist Radio.)

This piece might amuse you... it's my harpiest piece, in which the fractal harp interplay emerges from the primordial muck as I gradually loosen the constraints on the range of the melodies... it needs a little patience! [track artist=Tim Doyle]Exhibit A[/track].

Oh, by the way, his user name is [user]sotww[/user], and he was one of my first friends here and one of the earliest members of my flagship group. (You can see and hear all twenty of my groups here... [group]The Radio Room[/group].) I have 120 albums here myself, and one track that might appeal to you is [track artist=Tim Doyle]Magellan (remixed)[/track]. All of my music is based on fractal patterns.

Just been over to your site and your artist page here... mightily impressed I am. (Small world, I also lived in Buffalo and nearby in Angola-on-the-Lake for two years in my childhood.) Your music would be connected to [group]Chef Musinum[/group], our kitchen annex, to be simmered and seasoned until it reaches 200 listeners and 1000 scrobbles, when it would move to the main group. I'd be very happy to help spread your music! Someone here you might be interested in knowing is [artist]Gilles Mathieu[/artist], a Frenchman who has created an Irish Mass in Gaelic. He also has two other incarnations, as the ambient soundscape artist [artist]Lanikeha[/artist] and as the international pub musician [artist]Korvapuusti[/artist].

That's my boilerplate invitation... On a more personal note... as my father was an organist, your name is quite familiar to me. He was also an expert on Gregorian chant, and a translator of mostly liturgical and theological texts, including a 1948 translation of The Rule of St. Benedict published by the Liturgical Press that for decades was the standard. I imbibed Gregorian chant with my mother's milk, as I grew up a stone's throw from the largest Benedictine monastery in the world, St. John's Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota. My father's office was there, it was our parish, and I went to school there for eight years. I'm told that when I was a toddler, I used to hum my own version of Gregorian.

Thanks for your Friend request! I invite you to join my friends-only group [group]Chez Musinum[/group], a hub for artists, group leaders, and passionate listeners. If you have an artistic presence here, it will be connected with the group (or one of two sister groups, depending on listenership) and your music will stream on one or more of our Artist Radios. As an added inducement, you can be Minister of anything you like in our entirely fanciful Chez Musinum Cabinet. Hope to see you there!