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. (Fellow-Tennessean, Bettie Page, is featured in a tableau.) Animation (2 minutes 42 seconds in length)
Rare Paycheck (2009) High Fidelity Stereo
Under-employment with a jungle beat. (3 minutes 11 seconds in length)
Reasonably A Vampire (2009 ) High Fidelity Stereo
(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. (2 minutes 51 seconds in length)
Olestra: Box Lunch Adventure (2009) High Fidelity Stereo
Doesn't artificial fat deserve its own groove? (3 minutes 1 second in length)
THE VEHICULAR MAN SALAD 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. Animation (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. Large film file: 8.3MB. A Tribute to Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann. Animation (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. A Tribute to David Lynch's Los Angeles. Animation (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. Big file: 8 MB. Animation (2 minutes 52 seconds in length)
Jane Austen (2009 ) High Fidelity Stereo
A Tribute to Jane Austen. Animation (2 minutes 35 seconds in length)
Cassini Martini (2009 ) High Fidelity Stereo
Homage to a planetary probe. Animation (3 minutes 12 seconds in length)
THE DIAPHANOUS TORSO SUITE
Warm Laundry (2009) High Fidelity Stereo
Nothing makes me happier than warm folded laundry. (3 minutes 35 seconds in length)
Roadside Pompeii (2009) High Fidelity Stereo
My music is, on the whole, uptempo happy stuff. It's all brightly colored roadside attraction, though perhaps best viewed from the safety of a car with the windows rolled up. Animation (4 minutes 25 seconds in length)
Beautiful Monster (2009) High Fidelity Stereo
Monsters, angels, and women... Begins in a classical vein. Ends with something queerly pop-ish. Dedicated to Franz Schubert. (4 minutes 32 seconds in length)
Lullaby in Chalk (2009) High Fidelity Stereo
A happy-go-lucky dirge. (4 minutes 16 seconds in length)
La Masia (2009) High Fidelity Stereo
A Tribute to Joan Miro. (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. Animation (3 minutes 49 seconds in length)
Emma (2009 ) High Fidelity Stereo
More music inspired by my book. A tribute to my fashion plate heroine. Dedicated to cheesecake painter extraordinaire, Gil Elvgren. Animation (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.) (3 minutes 34 seconds in length)