Lee Barry Composition Diary

This started out with chords on the piano as "Time Being", the first two alternating between C minor and B major 7. It's a strange harmony that eludes a key center, much in the way that jazz is about cycles around the circle of fifths, and subdominant/dominant relationships. It ends in C minor but few of the chords are from that key. The second draft was set in 12/8 and tracked up from a drum and bass part. I didn't like where it was going--too harmonic. I found a nice melodic path (desire path) in the guitar melody.

Bowie was the first artist to successfully fuse rock with sci-fi. I wrote Dome City ten years ago, primarily inspired by the album "Outside". The chord change cliche of a major chord with the inner voice descending chromatically somehow always reminded me of early Bowie, and I still love it, cliche or not. Dome City by Lee Barry (Part 2 was actually the original idea, that I did an acoustic version of): Dome City by Lee Barry