First Music Stage

New Original Music by Michael Lowell Teague

About Garage Band: For anyone who thinks a computer writes this music, let me assure you, the odd loop notwithstanding, all the notes and compositions presented here are mine. As for the loops, I often use percussion loops from the Garage Band library, and just as often modify them with added effects and altered beats.

A goodly number of these "films" are not films at all, and mainly because I write music considerably faster than I am able to animate it. I am also half-convinced animation distracts from the listening experience. (Or so I tell myself since I am too lazy to animate.)

The only thing more difficult than writing this music is mixing it, so these pieces are frequently tinkered with and fine-tuned. All mp3s presented here in Flash film format are compressed at 160 kbps, which is too low to be “artifact” free.

(If film should hang while loading, hit Replay or Reload button to finish loading film.)

FEATURED: NEWLY ANIMATED

The Blue Bottle Fly (2009) High Fidelity Stereo
The middle of this breakneck piece is quite a change-up. Pretty and pensive in a Beethovenian mood. Animation (5 minutes 57 seconds in length)

Boyhood Reptile (2011) High Fidelity Stereo
On the other side of bad luck. Animation (3 minutes 22 seconds in length)

Brute Rainbow (2010) High Fidelity Stereo
Motel art, pareidolia, and Highway to Oblivion. Animation (4 minutes 6 seconds in length)

Shades of Porno Guitar: Summer in Memphis, 1976 (2009) High Fidelity Stereo
Music inspired by my hometown. (Fellow-Tennessean, Bettie Page, is featured in a tableau.) Animation (2 minutes 42 seconds in length)

Deltoid Fuchsia (2011) High Fidelity Stereo
Attention Deficit Wheelhouse. Animation (5 minutes 8 seconds in length)

AEROSOL CHEESES SUITE

Hummingbird Collosus (2011) High Fidelity Stereo
The orchestral interludes put me in mind of English Romanticism pre-WWI (Bridge, Delius, etc.). (3 minutes 54 seconds in length)

Dormice Sync (2011) High Fidelity Stereo
Disney Antimatter. (3 minutes 48 seconds in length)

Episodes of The Aquamarine Terror (2011) High Fidelity Stereo
Program music for anatomically challenged children. (4 minutes 42 seconds in length)

Boyhood Reptile (2011) High Fidelity Stereo
On the other side of bad luck. Animation (3 minutes 22 seconds in length)

Pastorale (2011) High Fidelity Stereo
Semblance of vocals (moi). (2 minutes 45 seconds in length)

MEMORY ARSONAL SUITE (new series in progress)

Deltoid Fuchsia (2011) High Fidelity Stereo
Attention Deficit Wheelhouse. Animation (5 minutes 8 seconds in length)

Soviet Bunk Bed (2011) High Fidelity Stereo
Non-alcoholic inspiration. (3 minutes 25 seconds in length)

The Dionne Quintuplets: Astral Projection (2011) High Fidelity Stereo
Idyll with matching outfits. (5 minutes 9 seconds in length)

Chapeau À la mode (2011) High Fidelity Stereo
A bit of a francophile, I'll admit. (5 minutes 14 seconds in length)

TURGID CEREALS SUITE

Corn in My Poop (2010) High Fidelity Stereo
Dedicated to nearly indigestible corn, and pilgrims. Animation (2 minutes 20 seconds in length)

Benadryl: Enlarger of Prostates, Giver of Sleep and Allergy Relief (2010) High Fidelity Stereo
The magical antihistamine. Animation (3 minutes 27 seconds in length)

Sleep-in-Late Japanese Girlfriend (2010) High Fidelity Stereo
Won't budge before noon. (2 minutes 47 seconds in length)

Fish Magic: A Tribute to Paul Klee (2010) High Fidelity Stereo
The Master of Archetypal Imagination. (3 minutes 38 seconds in length)

Godzilla and The Long Arm of Funk (2010) High Fidelity Stereo
(3 minutes 19 seconds in length)

Resplendent Robot (2010) High Fidelity Stereo
Before the era of CGI, robots were Japanese men in rubber suits. (3 minutes 58 seconds in length)

Lite Brite Ponies (2010) High Fidelity Stereo
Electric dream of prepubescent girls. (4 minutes 48 seconds in length)

EARLY PIECES (WITH ANIMATION)

Aberrant Star (2009) High Fidelity Stereo
A Tribute to Kim Walker. Animation (1 minutes 14 seconds in length)

Children's Sex Organs Are Never (2009) High Fidelity Stereo
The provocative title was lifted from a scene in a TV documentary about pornography, where a set of guidelines for broadcasters was briefly glimpsed: only these words were visible. A homage to salt-and-pepper shakers, and chest x-rays. Animation (1 minutes 47 seconds in length)

spukhafte Fernwirkung (2009) High Fidelity Stereo
The phrase, in German, I am told, means "spooky at a distance," and was reportedly said by Einstein to describe the voodoo of quantum entangelment. More funk. Animation (2 minutes 10 seconds in length)

Merry Christmas, Clowns! (2009) High Fidelity Stereo
Christmas music. Falls somewhere between Nino Rota and Danny Elfman. Animation (2 minutes 48 seconds in length)

Loons (2009) High Fidelity Stereo
The first piece I wrote in Garage Band. A Tribute to Salvador Dali. Animation (2 minutes 35 seconds in length)

Cowboy Philosopher (2009) High Fidelity Stereo
Sort of a Esquivel bachelor pad vibe. Animation (2 minutes 11 seconds in length)

Agnus Dei (2009) High Fidelity Stereo
This opus is inspired by a five-note motif that begins and ends the Agnus Dei from Cherubini’s Requiem in C minor. This motif opens my own Agnus Dei and is repeated throughout the first section in variation. Animation (3 minutes 16 seconds in length)

THE HERNIATED NYMPH SUITE

Meanwhile, In Coach... (2009) High Fidelity Stereo
Evocative of 60's bossa nova. Flying down to Brazil with Astrud. Yes!!! Dedicated to Antonio Carlos Jobim. (3 minutes 11 seconds in length)

The Green Shade (2009) High Fidelity Stereo
Music inspired by Absinthe, the Green Fairy. (4 minutes 26 seconds in length)

The Blue Bottle Fly (2009) High Fidelity Stereo
The middle of this breakneck piece is quite a change-up. Pretty and pensive in a Beethovenian mood. Animation (5 minutes 57 seconds in length) Animation (5 minutes 57 seconds in length)

Naiads (2009) High Fidelity Stereo
Music inspired by Pre-Raphaelite painter, J. W. Waterhouse. (4 minutes 27 seconds in length)

Whirled Peas (2009) High Fidelity Stereo
Psychedelic pop/rock with frozen vegetables. (3 minutes 40 seconds in length)

Infant Kal-El/ Escape Krypton (2009) High Fidelity Stereo
Apart from a childhood fascination with the Fantastic Four and the Silver Surfer, Superman is the only real superhero I like. I think it is chiefly because of the religious overtones of his infancy and purpose. The concept of redemption has strong transcendental underpinnings. Incidentally, at the halfway point of the piece a female voice can be heard saying, "Now boarding to leave Krypton." The second occurrence of this voice, played backwards and altered to sound male, faintly appears to be saying, "You will fly for a hundred years." This happens in a lull where an eerie echo anticipates the return of the battling guitar theme that began Escape Krypton. I picked up on this bit of unintended backward masking only on subsequent listening, and only after I had, in a late edit, inserted a small fragment of the Baptist hymn, I'll Fly Away, to flesh out the little march that ends Infant Kal-El. In one final strange note, the introductory text appearing above in white was written at the time of the first version of this piece, before both the reverse voice and the melodic fragment were added. (5 minutes 4 seconds in length)

Pillows and Pillars (2009) High Fidelity Stereo
A tribute to the inscrutable Parisian painter, Balthus (1908-2001). (4 minutes 42 seconds in length)

New Original Music by Michael Lowell Teague About Garage Band: For anyone who thinks a computer writes this music, let me assure you, the odd loop notwithstanding, all the notes and compositions presented here are mine. As for the loops, I often use percussion loops from the Garage Band library, and just as often modify them with added effects and altered beats. A goodly number of these "films" are not films at all, and mainly because I write music considerably faster than I am able to animate it. I am also half-convinced animation distracts from the listening experience. (Or so I tell myself since I am too lazy to animate.) The only thing more difficult than writing this music is mixing it, so these pieces are frequently tinkered with and fine-tuned. All mp3s presented here in Flash film format are compressed at 160 kbps, which is too low to be “artifact” free. (If film should hang while loading, hit Replay or Reload button to finish loading film.) FEATURED: NEWLY ANIMATED The Blue Bottle Fly (2009) High Fidelity Stereo The middle of this breakneck piece is quite a change-up. Pretty and pensive in a Beethovenian mood. Animation (5 minutes 57 seconds in length) Boyhood Reptile (2011) High Fidelity Stereo On the other side of bad luck. Animation (3 minutes 22 seconds in length) Brute Rainbow (2010) High Fidelity Stereo Motel art, pareidolia, and Highway to Oblivion. Animation (4 minutes 6 seconds in length) Shades of Porno Guitar: Summer in Memphis, 1976 (2009) High Fidelity Stereo Music inspired by my hometown. (Fellow-Tennessean, Bettie Page, is featured in a tableau.) Animation (2 minutes 42 seconds in length) Deltoid Fuchsia (2011) High Fidelity Stereo Attention Deficit Wheelhouse. Animation (5 minutes 8 seconds in length) AEROSOL CHEESES SUITE Hummingbird Collosus (2011) High Fidelity Stereo The orchestral interludes put me in mind of English Romanticism pre-WWI (Bridge, Delius, etc.). (3 minutes 54 seconds in length) Dormice Sync (2011) High Fidelity Stereo Disney Antimatter. (3 minutes 48 seconds in length) Episodes of The Aquamarine Terror (2011) High Fidelity Stereo Program music for anatomically challenged children. (4 minutes 42 seconds in length) Boyhood Reptile (2011) High Fidelity Stereo On the other side of bad luck. Animation (3 minutes 22 seconds in length) Pastorale (2011) High Fidelity Stereo Semblance of vocals (moi). (2 minutes 45 seconds in length) MEMORY ARSONAL SUITE (new series in progress) Deltoid Fuchsia (2011) High Fidelity Stereo Attention Deficit Wheelhouse. Animation (5 minutes 8 seconds in length) Soviet Bunk Bed (2011) High Fidelity Stereo Non-alcoholic inspiration. (3 minutes 25 seconds in length) The Dionne Quintuplets: Astral Projection (2011) High Fidelity Stereo Idyll with matching outfits. (5 minutes 9 seconds in length) Chapeau À la mode (2011) High Fidelity Stereo A bit of a francophile, I'll admit. (5 minutes 14 seconds in length) TURGID CEREALS SUITE Corn in My Poop (2010) High Fidelity Stereo Dedicated to nearly indigestible corn, and pilgrims. Animation (2 minutes 20 seconds in length) Benadryl: Enlarger of Prostates, Giver of Sleep and Allergy Relief (2010) High Fidelity Stereo The magical antihistamine. Animation (3 minutes 27 seconds in length) Sleep-in-Late Japanese Girlfriend (2010) High Fidelity Stereo Won't budge before noon. (2 minutes 47 seconds in length) Fish Magic: A Tribute to Paul Klee (2010) High Fidelity Stereo The Master of Archetypal Imagination. (3 minutes 38 seconds in length) Godzilla and The Long Arm of Funk (2010) High Fidelity Stereo (3 minutes 19 seconds in length) Resplendent Robot (2010) High Fidelity Stereo Before the era of CGI, robots were Japanese men in rubber suits. (3 minutes 58 seconds in length) Lite Brite Ponies (2010) High Fidelity Stereo Electric dream of prepubescent girls. (4 minutes 48 seconds in length) EARLY PIECES (WITH ANIMATION) Aberrant Star (2009) High Fidelity Stereo A Tribute to Kim Walker. Animation (1 minutes 14 seconds in length) Children's Sex Organs Are Never (2009) High Fidelity Stereo The provocative title was lifted from a scene in a TV documentary about pornography, where a set of guidelines for broadcasters was briefly glimpsed: only these words were visible. A homage to salt-and-pepper shakers, and chest x-rays. Animation (1 minutes 47 seconds in length) spukhafte Fernwirkung (2009) High Fidelity Stereo The phrase, in German, I am told, means "spooky at a distance," and was reportedly said by Einstein to describe the voodoo of quantum entangelment. More funk. Animation (2 minutes 10 seconds in length) Merry Christmas, Clowns! (2009) High Fidelity Stereo Christmas music. Falls somewhere between Nino Rota and Danny Elfman. Animation (2 minutes 48 seconds in length) Loons (2009) High Fidelity Stereo The first piece I wrote in Garage Band. A Tribute to Salvador Dali. Animation (2 minutes 35 seconds in length) Cowboy Philosopher (2009) High Fidelity Stereo Sort of a Esquivel bachelor pad vibe. Animation (2 minutes 11 seconds in length) Agnus Dei (2009) High Fidelity Stereo This opus is inspired by a five-note motif that begins and ends the Agnus Dei from Cherubini’s *Requiem in C minor.* This motif opens my own Agnus Dei and is repeated throughout the first section in variation. Animation (3 minutes 16 seconds in length) THE HERNIATED NYMPH SUITE Meanwhile, In Coach... (2009) High Fidelity Stereo Evocative of 60's bossa nova. Flying down to Brazil with Astrud. Yes!!! Dedicated to Antonio Carlos Jobim. (3 minutes 11 seconds in length) The Green Shade (2009) High Fidelity Stereo Music inspired by Absinthe, the Green Fairy. (4 minutes 26 seconds in length) The Blue Bottle Fly (2009) High Fidelity Stereo The middle of this breakneck piece is quite a change-up. Pretty and pensive in a Beethovenian mood. Animation (5 minutes 57 seconds in length) Animation (5 minutes 57 seconds in length) Naiads (2009) High Fidelity Stereo Music inspired by Pre-Raphaelite painter, J. W. Waterhouse. (4 minutes 27 seconds in length) Whirled Peas (2009) High Fidelity Stereo Psychedelic pop/rock with frozen vegetables. (3 minutes 40 seconds in length) Infant Kal-El/ Escape Krypton (2009) High Fidelity Stereo Apart from a childhood fascination with the Fantastic Four and the Silver Surfer, Superman is the only real superhero I like. I think it is chiefly because of the religious overtones of his infancy and purpose. The concept of redemption has strong transcendental underpinnings. Incidentally, at the halfway point of the piece a female voice can be heard saying, "Now boarding to leave Krypton." The second occurrence of this voice, played backwards and altered to sound male, faintly appears to be saying, "You will fly for a hundred years." This happens in a lull where an eerie echo anticipates the return of the battling guitar theme that began Escape Krypton. I picked up on this bit of unintended backward masking only on subsequent listening, and only after I had, in a late edit, inserted a small fragment of the Baptist hymn, I'll Fly Away, to flesh out the little march that ends Infant Kal-El. In one final strange note, the introductory text appearing above in white was written at the time of the first version of this piece, before both the reverse voice and the melodic fragment were added. (5 minutes 4 seconds in length) Pillows and Pillars (2009) High Fidelity Stereo A tribute to the inscrutable Parisian painter, Balthus (1908-2001). (4 minutes 42 seconds in length)
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