Here is a sampling of music titles, original compositions with many examples from throughout my career. They speak for itself.
There are lists and examples throughout the page organized in various combinations to illustrate the variety of circumstances that produced them. It's a piss poor first attempt to etch placeholders for proper stories and each has one, some well worth reporting for the collaboration involved.
My first recorded musical experiments with sound happened in 1968 when I was nine years old involving a tape machine my brother gave me and my first hand written composition for piano, Prelude in A for Ann Harrison, was completed in 1978 and performed in recital in 1980 by a student pianist.
My first professional Sound Design happened in 1982 using my trusty Sony reel-to-reel, a block of aluminum and a razor blade and the first time I got paid for original music was 1984, the theme song for a television pilot never fully produced. The last time has yet to be determined.
My work is eclectic, a result of my natural inclinations tempered and seasoned by the many circumstances I've been in with so many, often requiring special attention be given to achieve specific results for specific audiences and sometimes just for the shear joy of the noise.
I was blessed to have lived at the tail end of a golden age of music, with so many like minded doing so many different things on a stage for an audience who knew enough to venture out to appreciate it. I've devoted my life to restoring the traditions of my crafts.
music for live performance
I am a composer for performing artists in addition to theater and dance. Prospective clients include:
music for acrobats
music for aerialists
music for clowns
music for dramatic reading
music for duets and trios
music for ensembles
music for jugglers
music for magicians
music for poetic reading
music for singers of songs and the like
music for static display (music for flowers gathering dust)
Listing of All Known Composed and/or Recorded Tracks
12 Tone Belles - Studio 4
17 Reasons Why
1986: The Year of Coping [collage]
A Hole In The Wall
A Man Who Knows His Stuff - Schrodinger's Girlfriend
All Night Long Madness - All Night Long
All Night Long Paradise - All Night Long
Almost Airborne
Along A Song
Amsterdam - Deatherians
Angels Cry Marisol - Marisol
Anger In My Pants - Deatherians
An Unfinished Undying Love Song for A Rusty Bug Named Anye
Around A Roundabout
As It Were
Auf Weidersehen - Schrodinger's Girlfriend
Avoid A Void
Azure
Battle Cries - Marisol
Bomb Medley - D.I.Y. Or Die
Brake Breath - Marisol
Brandy In Bed - Triptych
Break The Mold w/Dina Emerson
Cannon
Change Hands
Chopstick Variations - Dr Faustus Lights The Lights
Cue Chaos - Marisol
d minor
dna minor
DA DA nce - Schrodinger's Girlfriend
Deep In A Fog - Marisol
Distant Destruction - Marisol
Domino Falls - SUNZ w/Rob Strange
Don't Tread On Me - SUNZ w/Geoff Pond
Election Year
Embargo - SUNZ w/Rob Strange
Every Where
Fuck Slogans
Grok (Sparse)
Grok (Dense)
Hansi's Song - Schrodinger's Girlfriend
I Must Be Getting Better, The Pieces Are Getting Smaller [collage]
Jen Jam - SUNZ w/John Gordon
Jerk
Kill - SUNZ w/Rob Strange
Long Ago Redeux
Meatmen - Deatherians
Melodrama - Summertime
Mythical Johnny
No Class (WAR!)
No Class (WAR!) - The Serfs Cover
Nuke The Cable Cars
Other Side Of The Door
Our Time Has Come w/Chris Olson
Peace Pipe Bomb
Peony
Phage - SUNZ w/Rob Strange & Huge
Powerfest - SUNZ w/Rob Strange & Huge
Prelude in A for Ann
Prelude in A for Anne - Studio 4
Prelude To An Execution - Scenes From An Execution
Rhumba Dub
S.P.Q.A. w/Rob Strange
Sensitivity Training
Shaker Dance - Bake Sale
Skunks & Fireflies
Snake Charm Embrace
So Long
So This Girl Was
Standard Light Bulbs
Standing In The Reign - Scenes From An Execution
State Of The Nation - SUNZ w/Rob Strange & Huge
Strings 20120804
Strings Blue - Dr Faustus Lights The Lights
Strings Green - Dr Faustus Lights The Lights
Strings Lavender - Dr Faustus Lights The Lights
Strings Indigo Chamber - Dr Faustus Lights The Lights
Strings Indigo Rocks
Suite Amanda
The Pain Game w/Chris Olson
The Sisters of Psyche
The Usual Suspects
The Wrong Shoes
TI Trio
Time Running OUT - SUNZ
To Hell In 1/2 Steps - Marisol
Trial Of Conscience w/Trial
Tribute - SUNZ w/Rob Strange & Huge
Untitled Song 2
Untitled Song 3
Variations for Caged Pianos
Vocal Rounds
Watching Where You Are Going
Within The Space Of A Heartbeat
Xctasy - SUNZ w/Rob Strange & Huge
Xerox My Ass - Next In Line
You're Stuck
stats
Stats over time (2002-2005) from BeSonic when it existed. I was on global charts and getting attention at the dawn of... All of it is below somewhere to listen to a decade later. You have no idea how much has changed or how quickly and I was there and here's the proof.
Music on demand
Music on video
MJW doing something involving live music. 38 videos
A Man Who Knows His Stuff - Schrodinger's Girlfriend - Magic Theatre
Hansi's Song - Schrodinger's Girlfriend - Magic Theatre
Shaker Dance - Bake Sale - Fifth Floor
Prelude to an Execution - Scenes From an Execution - Brauva Theater
Theme Song - Livin' Fat - Lorraine Hansberry Theater
Duet with Julia Tell at Studio 4, SF, 1988. The warehouse/venue doubled as living quarters for seven working artists. Three were choreographers so I got a lot of work done as a composer and performer in Dance in addition to Theatre.
Mythical Johnny featuring Toying With Mortality, an animated band of bots.