John Simon

Electronica

Preludes

 

Each Prelude is intended to be concise, aiming for 3 - 4 minutes in length. Each one is a little sonic movie, a bit romantic, sometimes even rhapsodic.

 

What I am primarily exploring here are ways to create music/organize sound without the use of functional harmony - especially without the use of separate, discrete pitches to create any sense of "key" or "melody". Instead, I focus on finding a sense of gesture that connects each sound together to create a meaning. So, the sounds relate to each other, sometimes flowing and morphing from one into another, other times in layers.

 

 

New Stuff

 

Here is some of my latest work.

 

 

Ambient/LoFi

 

The Ambient genre really excites me because it asks for deep listening to detail. "I Can't Remember" is a bit of an homage to Harold Budd and Brian Eno. "Without Looking" is in the LoFi Genre.

 

 

Beats

 

 

Video

 

 

Click here to watch this in higher resolution on Vimeo

 

 

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