Lee Barry Composition (And Photo) Diary

 "Brian" Mix: Sum 1: Nostalgia Galaxy by Lee Barry  Final Mix: Sum 1: Nostalgia Galaxy by Lee Barry  Rough Mixes (November):   Possible lyric: Disaster movies It's what it's like to live in the world Subconscious movies It's what it's like to live in the frame Disaster movies Why we fight to live in the world Your favorite movies Inside your television and mistaken for your mind Paintings so surreal Abstractions in the marks Projection uses light But ends up in the dark Disaster movies The flicker of the fear in your brain Psychotic reaction Life without illusion is no life at all Disaster movies It's what it's like to live in the frame Subconscious movies Inside your television And mistaken for your mind Paintings so surreal Abstractions in the marks Projection uses light But ends up in the dark   If all the disaster movies that we've seen over the past fifty years are in fact projections—as they have been in many cases (most notably 911), the...

  A short pastoral piece for the holidays. I've included some ambient atmosphere consisting of field recordings in natural settings. It is loosely inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian Houses built in the 30s and 40s.   I've included some ambient atmosphere consisting of field recordings in natural settings.  

  December is F Lydian month and this year it's "Winter Clocks". The title is a variation of "Simmer Cloks" in the Scots language, which are sunbeams through the clouds seen in the summer. Lydian can sometimes slip into Mixolydian like it does here when it seems to resolve to G. Lydian is in the middle-ground or "rift" of the modes.