Kelly David

about

What inspires me to create music? A delicate question for some artists. I get it. Not examining the muse for fear of losing it. I’m not sure my muse is all that delicate. It is what it is. My impulse to compose arose in junior high from an uncertain restlessness. It drove me to the piano to write. My early musical scores testify to a love of wide, open-voiced chords. And not too many. Minimal. Loud. I was a boy. And I still love those chords today. By high school, classical training ruled. Walls were put up. Silos built. Melody and harmony occupied their separate spaces. I went with it. I tried rock and jazz. Loved it. I cultivated my dark side as I best as I could. My classical music got performed. At the music conservatory, the classical method bore down hard on me. I froze up. Then, it was all about fast notes. Crazy exhibitions of fast. Technique mattered more than emotion. Romantic harmony was passé. A fellow comp major burst into tears because they wouldn’t let him write “pretty music.” I went electronic. I discovered the power of analog voltage-controlled sound. Gear access was precious. Time was limited for undergrads. I used what I could. For my fall sophomore composition recital, I ditched the acoustic instruments. Presented a tape piece featuring crudely processed samples of our hippie house’s kitchen pots and pans. Pitched. Banged and tape echoed. The French call it musique concrete. My composition professor liked it. But almost no one else there did. When it

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Angkor

Broken Voyage

Meditation in Green

Illusive

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Drone Zone: Atmospheric ambient space music. Serve Best Chilled. Safe with most medications. [SomaFM]

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Very Best of Acoustic

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60 Acoustic Lovesongs

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33 - free ambient electronic sampler

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Drone Zone [SomaFM]

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Deep Space One: Deep ambient electronic and space music. [SomaFM]

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Chill Out Zone 79

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