New Original Music by Michael Lowell Teague

THE AGIPROP AND SEALANTS SUITE

Waxworks: Schematics for A Ballet in Eight Scenes (2010) High Fidelity Stereo
This is a considerable expansion of a piece written in 2008 and featured on the second music stage. As that piece was dedicated to Jules Asner, so is this one. Comes in at 10.6 MBs. Animation (8 minutes 27 seconds in length)

 

Azure L'amour (2010) High Fidelity Stereo
Cocktails and Diazepam with the girls. (4 minutes 24 seconds in length)

 

Pretty for Deodorant: Three Short Pieces (2010) High Fidelity Stereo
Lying somewhere between Poulenc and Hindemith, this is a loose musical tribute to the Belgian surrealist painter, Paul Delvaux, in particular, and to the female body in general. The last section is comprised of photo clippings from my photo/magazine collection, which I discuss in my memoir/novel. Big file: 9.4 MB Animation (4 minutes 34 seconds in length)

 

The Goat-Footed Balloon Man (2010) High Fidelity Stereo
A Tribute to ee cummings. (4 minutes 42 seconds in length)

 

Tijuana Donkey Show (2010) High Fidelity Stereo
This jaunty tune is punctuated by an interlude more reminiscent of Aaron Copland than anything south of the border. (2 minutes 55 seconds in length)

 

March of The Absentminded (2010) High Fidelity Stereo
A March to nowhere. (4 minutes 2 seconds in length)

 

 

BRICOLAGE AND TOPIARY SUITE

Turing Machine (2010) High Fidelity Stereo
Algorithms, Asperger's, and Alan Turing. (4 minutes 44 seconds in length)

 

Serene Potentate (2010) High Fidelity Stereo
Shriners' Secret Handshake. (3 minutes 7 seconds in length)

 

Found Candy (2010) High Fidelity Stereo
Ipso Facto Valentine. (2 minutes 27 seconds in length)

 

buxis ab vinum inflexibilis (2010) High Fidelity Stereo
Loosely means Inflexible Box of Wine. (5 minutes 17 seconds in length)

 

Non-Popcorn Arm (2010) High Fidelity Stereo
Defies Explanation. (2 minutes 58 seconds in length)

 

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

 

 

POUR PIANO

Eventual Etude No. 1: (The Annotated Toupée) (2011) High Fidelity Stereo
Sad then Schizophrenic. (2 minutes 10 seconds in length)

 

Eventual Etude No. 2: (Wigwam E Pluribus) (2011) High Fidelity Stereo
Sort of J. S. Bach meets early America composer, Edward MacDowell. (2 minutes 37 seconds in length)

 

Divertimento for Piano (2010) High Fidelity Stereo
Paint-by-numbers éclair. (3 minutes 43 seconds in length)

 

 

ASSORTMENT OBLIQUE

Cantaloupe de Catalunya: An Overture in Lurches (2011) High Fidelity Stereo
War Orphans dream of melons.  (3 minutes 34 seconds in length)

 

The Garden of Capitulation (2011) High Fidelity Stereo
Animus and Regret. (4 minutes 4 seconds in length)

 

Aerodyne (1986/2011) High Fidelity Stereo
Originally this piece was written for piano (Paper Airplane circa 1986). The principle theme is played backwards in the second part, and here scored with a small ensemble of instruments. For those who have visited my Asperger’s site, you will recognize this section as the opus dedicated to my late father. (4 minutes 36 seconds in length)

 

 

 

NONSPECIFIC AND EARLIER WORKS

Tag Fragment (2009) stereo
This was written as a tag ending for a planned (but now abandoned) podcast of my memoir/novel, An Aversion to Ladders. After making three episodes, with sound effects and everything, I decided the book was poorly served by the format. I do, however, plan to develop my next book project into something that can accommodate an audio dimension. Animation (56 seconds in length)

 

These following pieces have been performed on a Casio, and you must forgive my low-tech method of recording. (I have not played the piano for fifteen years.)

Idée Fixe (1980) stereo
(1 minute 28 seconds in length)