Early Musical Work

[Works I contributed to musically, but the recordings of which were engineered by other people.]

 

Songs by Cleveland, Ohio rock band Time No Reason:

Title:     Heading Home

Genre: Rock

Details:     Co-wrote lead melody with Anthony Sterns, arranged song chord progressions, and wrote and performed all keyboard parts.

 

Title:     Tension

Genre: Rock

Details:     Co-wrote music and lyrics with Anthony Sterns and Stephen Taylor, arranged chord progressions, and wrote and performed all keyboard parts.

 

Title:     Cat In A Window

Genre: Rock

Details:     Co-wrote music and lyrics with Anthony Sterns and Stephen Taylor, arranged chord progressions, and wrote and performed all keyboard parts.

 

Title:     Wise to the Style

Genre: Rock

Details:     Wrote and performed all keyboard parts. Cover of Akron, Ohio 80's band Joy Circuit.

 

Title:     Fear the Intimate

Genre: Rock

Details:     Co-wrote music and lyrics with Anthony Sterns and Stephen Taylor, arranged chord progressions, and wrote and performed all keyboard parts.

 

Title:     Saturdays

Genre: Rock

Details:     Co-wrote music and lyrics with Anthony Sterns and Stephen Taylor, arranged chord progressions, and wrote and performed all keyboard parts.

 

Title:     Perceptions

Genre: Rock

Details:     Co-wrote music and lyrics with Anthony Sterns, arranged chord progressions, and wrote and performed all keyboard parts.

 

Title:     The Bones Know

Genre: Rock

Details:     Co-wrote music and lyrics with Anthony Sterns and Stephen Taylor, arranged chord progressions, and wrote and performed all keyboard parts.

 

Title:     Engram of You

Genre: Rock

Details:     Co-wrote music with Anthony Sterns, arranged chord progressions, and wrote and performed all keyboard parts.

 

Title:     Anthem (Rock Hall Theme)

Genre: Rock

Details:     Co-wrote music with Anthony Sterns and Stephen Taylor, co-wrote lyrics with Stephen Taylor. Arranged chord progressions, and wrote and performed all keyboard parts. Song was written and submitted as the theme song to the opening of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

 

Undergraduate Compositions:

Title:     Songs of Witness (Song 1)

Genre: Modern Classical

Details:     Multi-instrumental composition performed at undergraduate senior recital. Lyrics are the Wilfred Owen World War I poem, "Dulce et Decorum Est."

Performers:

Christopher Flowers, baritone

Rachel Evans, oboe

Don Ley, percussion

Jim Hinkley, cello

Anne Babich, piano

Aaron Pillar, conductor

 

Songs by Cleveland, Ohio rock band Time No Reason:

Title:     Blind Men

Genre: Rock

Details:     Wrote chord progressions. Wrote and performed all keyboard parts. Performed background vocals. Contributed to vocal melodies which were mostly written (along with all lyrics) by Anthony Sterns.

 

Title:     Science (Pursuit of Truth)

Genre: Rock

Details:     Wrote chord progressions. Wrote and performed all keyboard parts.

Title:     The Missing Line

Genre: Rock

Details:     Wrote chord progressions. Wrote and performed all keyboard parts. Performed background vocals.

 

Title:     Engram of You

Genre: Rock

Details:     Wrote chord progressions. Wrote and performed all keyboard parts.

 

Title:     No Reason to Fear

Genre: Rock

Details:     Wrote chord progressions and lead melody rhythms. Wrote and performed all keyboard parts. Performed background vocals.

 

Title:     A Trip Through Different

Genre: Rock

Details:     Wrote all music and lyrics. Performed lead vocal and all keyboard parts.

 

Title:     This Quiet Place

Genre: Rock

Details:     Wrote chord progressions. Wrote and performed all keyboard parts.

 

Theme song to a local Cleveland TV show:

Title:     North Coast Connection Theme

Genre: TV Show Theme Music

Details:     Wrote as the theme song to North Coast Connection (a local Cleveland TV show), à la 'Entertainment Tonight.' Wrote, performed/sequenced all parts into a Korg M1 rack-mount synthesizer.