Lee Barry Composition Diary

  A 2-chord Joe (Am/Ebmaj7(#11)) using two chord scales: A minor pentatonic (or A natural minor) and Eb Lydian. Or you could use a C major scale alternating with a Bb major scale, or C major pentatonic and Bb major pentatonic. The key is to alternate between the B-natural and Bb and E-natural and Eb as the chords change. In some metaphorical way, the Bs and the Es are "mirror reflections" or opposites.   Sum 1: Nostalgia Galaxy by Lee Barry   Video:  

Music composed specifically for places (a psychogeography), to be played as background music while involved in some other activity, using headphones at a low volume allowing ambient sounds to bleed in. Download individual tracks:  

   A song of portmanteaus: "mysteronomy" (a hybrid of mystery and astronomy: "He had a deep love for mysteronomy"). Or "mysterectomy" (like hysterectomy--"she had her mystery removed"). Mysteronomy Weaving webs through history In veils of anonymity Lost in a sea of subjectivity We still mistake freedom for free A synedoche Weaving threads through you and me A way towards relativity Lost in a maze of reactivity We still mistake the two for the one Mysterectomy It's the end of our uncertainty The truth of our cosmology Lost is a space of subjectivity We still mistake the earth for the sun  Rough backing track:  Melange by Lee Barry

  Changes: Proxima B (Groove In G Minor) by meta4s This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License .

  I'm calling this "Western Flamenco" because it suggests nylon string rasgueado and other nylon techniques. It's the first song I've written with only one verse, topically about the mystery of the 60s music venue and Lynch's Lost Highway . The Refrain is nonsense or marginally suggestive wordplay.  The Topanga Corral (It's gonna break your heart) The Topanga Corral (You're gonna get a new start) The Topanga Corral (It's gonna break your heart) The Topanga Corral (You're gonna play a new part) In the beginning A lost highway was found In the world of the neo-noir Mystery on a VHS Took a sharp turn At the roadhouse When I went back It was burned down In a shark tank For the dark shark Took a left turn For a right start Topanga Corral by meta4s   *** Some interesting AI spins--with subtle Doors reference: