Please enjoy the album. It's free (really!) at at my Soundcloud site. Just click the image above. If you see advertising let me know. I pay extra for the service not to place adds on my album pages.
'Best listen with headphones, otherwise the low frequency synth work will be lost. The album consisted of 3 short orchestral works, a piano piece, two works for pipe organ, and this new work for the spectacular synth from iZotope called "Iris 2." The piece is simple, and meant to show off a very simple sampling, and the effect of layering tones in an order slightly different than that normally given in what's called "the overtone series, the patterning of tones that makes, for example, horn and bassoon sound so very different, though they often play the same notes.
Iris is one of a series of recent sample based synthesiser, meaning it takes an existing sound (often from a natural environment), and then subjects the brief recorded sound to a series of mutations. The sounds are then played either on a keyboard, or by notation or digital audio workstation software on a computer. In this case, it's being played by my notation program, Notion, from the music hardware and software folks at Presonus. For those accustomed to seeing music and harmonic relationships expressed as notes on score paper, rather than piano role style bar grafts. Notion is among the best computer assists going.
If you'd like to read along while listening, here's a video of the same music, though the audio quality is not as good:
