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"Don't dismiss the words and given the medium, the production is pretty good. (I remember trying to compile music on an old Fostex 4-track, no dolby and the reverb pulled from my Project 80 synthesiser. No further comment except you've done…"

"Well....thank you for those very kind comments.  I'm humbled...I'm nothing special, just - like you - happen to have music in me. My circumstances let me develop some of it into an interest in composition. I abused such college…"

"Gav, Funny you should say Beatles because I have a version (I just added to this post) where I inserted a little Beatles bit at the end because the ending reminds me of the TV studio dancing scene in “A Hard Day’s Night”.…"

"Hi Rick, This Beatles-y tune would fit in well with a video game, in fact it reminds of one called Monkey Island. The instrument balance seems ok to me, nicely done! Gav"

"Dane, Another fine study in sound. I really love the way the phrases speed up and slow down, and being that I can’t discern a time meter, those bursts of speed are free to break whatever tempo they originated from. How in the world do you even…"

"Dane, I just listened to Suites 1 and 4. I love this stuff! Somehow it works, don’t ask me how, but it works. Made me feel like I was on some alien planet strolling through the fauna. I also got impressions of the microcosm of creatures in my…"

"Dane, Sorry about that word “flattery”. I actually thought; “Do I really want to use that word?” because it’s so emotionally vacuous. It’s more a reflection of me really. Guess I was just too lazy to find a better…"

"There's no flattery, Rick.  I decided on a side-line project of putting together a "pop" sounding lounge type thing - sideline because the main one is putting together some music for contemporary dance (nothing to do with the…"

"Kjell, Hope you dug that Elizabethan flavored turnaround followed by the "harpsichord-ish" sounding guitar solo. I never know where these things will go.. I feel like I'm just along for the ride. I just write tunes for my own personal…"

"Ahh, pretty piece. A content rich song with also some unexpected turns, twists and chords. You should make some lyrics and find yourself a singer, it will certainly be successful. Well done! Kjell"

"Dane, You asked: "Are you seriously trying to convince me you can’t read music?" Here's the embarrassing truth. Sometimes when, for some reason, I find myself staring at a musical score and want to know what note or chord…"

"Ha. We’re in the same scene here, me being pretty lazy about changing things. I must be a few updates short on my daw because I really don’t want to have to go through all those settings again and learn new ways of doing old things. It…"

"Dane, Hi! How ya been? Yeah, I kinda ride the musical wave for as long as I can, hit the beach, then go off on some other cerebral adventure. That, and some keys on my upright piano have turned sour. I think it’s because I had a heat pump…"

"" know my Sonar 8.5 is old, but it took me so long to learn that I dread re-learning a new version, but that's just me." Rick, you are not alone! "

"Where have you BEEN? Another very nice piece from your pen...or daw. I could give many reasons why I liked it but without the score I have to try to describe them. I remember you claiming you weren't too worried about the technical side of…"