New Original Music by Michael Lowell Teague
THE SHRINKWRAPPED KITTENS SUITE
Shades of Porno Guitar: Summer in Memphis, 1976 (2009) High Fidelity Stereo
Music inspired by my hometown. No Animation. (2 minutes 42 seconds in length)
Rare Paycheck (2009) High Fidelity Stereo
Under-employment with a jungle beat. The story of my life. No Animation. (3 minutes 11 seconds in length)
Reasonably A Vampire (2009 ) High Fidelity Stereo
The organ is a dead giveaway this piece is about vampires. No Animation. (3 minutes 12 seconds in length)
Plastic Sushi (2009) High Fidelity Stereo
Formerly known as Tokyo Skyline, only now with an added transitional theme in the middle. No Animation. (2 minutes 51 seconds in length)
Olestra: Box Lunch Adventure (2009) High Fidelity Stereo
Doesn't artificial fat deserve its own groove? The electric piano at the end really burns down the house. No Animation. (3 minutes 1 second in length)
THE VEHICULAR MANSLAUGHTER SUITE (WITH ANIMATION)
Ice Cream Truck (2009 ) High Fidelity Stereo
The first theme could be likened to music from an ice cream vendor's truck. The second theme, by contrast, kicks it old school. Large film file: 8.5 MB. (3 minutes in length)
Driving With Death (2009) High Fidelity Stereo
I believe I was channeling noted Hitchcock composer, Bernard Herrmann, when I wrote this. This is a second version of this piece, now with added campy Halloween effects. As for the face that appears in the rear window of the Thunderbird, it was quite accidental. To undertand my disposition for finding faces in strange places, see the index page at Asperger's Doorknob. Large film file: 8.3MB. A Tribute to Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann. (3 minutes 16 seconds in length)
Inland Empire (2009 ) High Fidelity Stereo
I wrote the first theme you encounter in this piece back in 1986 or 1987, around the time I first saw David Lynch's Blue Velvet. The two things are not related, although the theme has an Angelo Badalamenti Twin Peaks vibe to it. Somewhere near the end of the film I throw in some crappy tourist photos I took in LA. Even though I am too afraid to live there, I think of LA as my hometown. Read the dream sequence in Chapter One of my memoir/novel and maybe you will begin to appreciate just how subtly creepy this film really is. A Tribute to David Lynch's Los Angeles. (3 minutes 26 seconds in length)
Popeye (2009) High Fidelity Stereo
This one begins with a light pop/jazzy feel, but then turns into a sea chantey on steroids. I’m especially proud of the bass line riff that comes in after the piano intro. Really sets the mood. Big file: 8 MB. (2 minutes 52 seconds in length)
Jane Austen (2009 ) High Fidelity Stereo
A simple tribute to my beloved Jane Austen, who was (like Dali and Lynch [and perhaps even Schubert]) most probably a fellow aspie. The music is meant to evoke the genteel, stately, and yet curiously asymmetrical sensibility of English composers such as Gerald Finzi. A Tribute to Jane Austen. (2 minutes 35 seconds in length)
Cassini Martini (2009 ) High Fidelity Stereo
Glorious photos set to funky outerspace lounge music. Sort of oscillates between a celestial anthem and a bouncy Middle Eastern caravan (or perhaps conga line) tune. (3 minutes 12 seconds in length)
THE DIAPHANOUS TORSO SUITE
Warm Laundry (2009) High Fidelity Stereo
Nothing makes me happier than warm folded laundry. Bouncy tune, despite the thrashing guitar at the end. No Animation. (3 minutes 35 seconds in length)
Roadside Pompeii (2009) High Fidelity Stereo
My music is, on the whole, uptempo happy stuff, and this may come as a surprise to some who have seen other pages on my sites. However, I see no inconsistency between my paintings/comics and this music. It's all brightly colored roadside attraction, though perhaps best viewed from the safety of a car with the windows rolled up. This is my largest film file to date: 10.7 MB. (4 minutes 25 seconds in length)
Beautiful Monster (2009) High Fidelity Stereo
Monsters, angels, and women populate the pages of my book, though they are all truly one in the same. This piece begins in a forlorn classical vein, but then becomes something queerly pop-ish. Dedicated to Franz Schubert. No Animation. (4 minutes 32 seconds in length)
Lullaby in Chalk (2009) High Fidelity Stereo
A happy-go-lucky dirge that ends with moaning guitars. No Animation. (4 minutes 16 seconds in length)
La Masia (2009) High Fidelity Stereo
Joan Miro's surrealist work became increasingly abstract in time. This painting (The Farm, circa 1920-21) dates from his early output and is one of my favorites. The music evokes little that is rural or even Spanish. However, like its namesake painting, this little ditty is damn hard to categorize. A Tribute to Joan Miro. No Animation. (3 minutes 42 seconds in length)
MUSIC INSPIRED BY AN AVERSION TO LADDERS (WITH ANIMATION)
Stonesthrow (2009) High Fidelity Stereo
I think the book jacket would read: "...a postcard perfect little town with a dark secret." Actually, Stonesthrow is more a fractured state of mind than a place in my memoir/novel, An Aversion to Ladders. The music is happy and bright, but takes a dark turn at the end. (3 minutes 49 seconds in length)
Emma (2009 ) High Fidelity Stereo
More music inspired by my book. A soaring tribute to my fashion plate heroine, tinged with a trace of melancholy. Dedicated to cheesecake painter extraordinaire, Gil Elvgren. (3 minutes 46 seconds in length)
Nadir Mound (Orchestrated) (2010) High Fidelity Stereo
This is an orchestrated version of the first piece I wrote inspired by my book. (The original version can be found at my Asperger's site.) The scene is meant to evoke Michael and Emma's day together at Nadir Mound, which plays out in Chapter Sixteen. (Also, the big brass and drum ending alludes to the high school band that appears in the second epilogue.) No Animation. (3 minutes 34 seconds in length)