The Music
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Pirouette Park

A Field Guide to Sleep

$15
These Lullabyes for Adults are dreamtime companions for people in various professions to listen to as they set sail for slumberland. By turns gentle, cinematic, and at times lightly tongue-in-cheek, they honor the saying that the “easiest way to achieve the impossible dream is to go to sleep.”
Ace of Cups (Tarot Reader) (play)
4:39
Sleep Tight (Journalist) (play)
4:12
The Airman's Descent (Pilot)
3:39
Nuit Blanche (Dairy Farmer)
3:55
The Queen's Gambit Declined (Chess Player)
3:37
The Cowgirl's Lullabye (Rancher) (play)
2:28
Rounded With a Sleep (Playwright)
3:33
Daze for Night (Anesthesiologist)
2:25
Giacometti's Reverie (Sculptor)
2:48
Compline Hour (Cleric)
1:28
Peterbilt (Teamster)
2:48
At Both Ends (Chandler) (play)
2:51
A Circle in the Water (Water Therapist) (play)
2:24
The Isle Is Full of Noises (Entomlogist) (play)
2:27
The Secret Life (Florist)
3:31
A Fork in the Road (Travel Agent) (play)
5:07
Floyd Cramer Dreaming (Beautician)
3:27
But Who's Counting (Numerologist)
2:12
The Hour of Watching (Ontologist)
2:37
Night Life (Archaeologist
4:19



Pirouette Park

HereAfterHere

$15
HereAfterHere is the soundtrack for Tandy Bealē—“ investigation of the afterlife. Visually evocative, the music suggests alternative worlds yet remains grounded in the here and now of this present world. Art Lande contributes his musical magic on several of the pieces.
Hour of the Call (play)
6:32
Hour of the Shroud
2:59
Bardo #1
14:08
Hour of the Clue (play)
2:27
Bardo #3 (play)
5:39
Echo Hunters (play)
3:07
Hour of Watching (play)
3:17
Better Angels
5:12
Hour of the Fragments (play)
4:01
The White Plume
4:41
Hour of Waiting (play)
3:58
Hour of the Garland
4:45



Pirouette Park

Certain Twilights

$15
Certain Twilights is a travelogue of rhythmic and harmonic possibilities contained within a concert harp. The music explores the sublime sonorities of the instrument ranging from the sparsely meditative to the rhythmically charged and harmonically complex.
Certain Twilights (play)
3:12
Angle of Repose
1:29
Inconclusive World
3:05
Watercourse (play)
2:02
Auricle
2:51
Azan
3:30
Milonga
1:49
World Enough & Time (play)
3:00
Operation Wandering Soul (play)
4:27
The Lake
1:34
Tessera (play)
2:34
Serenade
2:57
Market Square
3:00
Fiume di Beatrice (play)
3:44
Couloir
2:18
Circumstance (play)
2:18
Meridian
2:18
Gavotte (play)
4:01



Pirouette Park
$15
Pirouette Park is a high energy rhythm-driven album designed specifically for dance classes (or for cleaning up your house).
Ozebela (play)
116 bpm, 5:39
Modulo / 109 bpm
4:33
A Delerium Of Swallows
120 bpm, 4:03
Cooler Heads Prevailed (play)
86 bpm, 4:24
Indigo Maria
120 bpm, 4:16
Olocatu
100 bpm, 3:53
Flop Flip
90 bpm, 3:17
Three Rivers (play)
101 bpm, 4:50
Ritornello (play)
120 bpm, 4:39
Re: Heat
111 bpm, 4:31
Tindo
127 bpm, 5:56
Jitter
133 bpm, 3:51
Details To Follow (play)
103 bpm, 4:27
Amphimix (play)
120 bpm, 5:22
Sub Marine Dream (play)
135 bpm, 5:51
Compass
128 bpm, 7:00



Legerdemain
$15
Legerdemain is the 2nd in a series of recordings for an imaginary keyboard. Like Palmistry, it is a sequence of short preludes for computer and sampled piano. Diverse, witty, highly rhythmic and often melodic, it traverses many styles from blues and boogie-woogie, to xotes, tangos, circus tunes, with occasional side trips into aleatoric worlds.
Prologue
0:38
Booogle Wooogle (play)
2:12
Azan
3:30
Angle of Repose
1:24
Pinacatto
1:08
Xote Do Souto
3:07
Volant
2:09
Neither Horses Nor Heaven
3:59
Truth Told Slant (play)
2:28
Waltz of the Circumspect Corporals (play)
1:37
Prelude Garden
1:45
Smith Grade Tango
4:17
The Lake
1:24
Certain Twilights (play)
3:16
Hands Down (play)
2:31
Caesura
2:40
Approach
3:05
Cirkus Quirkus
2:49
Gallimaufry (play)
2:43
Klezbyterian (play)
3:33
Miro Asleep
3:16



Wide Life
$15
Wide Life is an album of scores for contemporary dance, theater, and video installations. Visual and kinetic, it spans Jon's love of electronica, Chopin, Latin, Bulgarian, Brazilian, and chamber music. With over 20 resourceful musicians from California and Rio de Janeiro, the music is lyrical, rhythmical, whimsical, and wise.
In What Furnace
7:01
Ice 5 (play)
5:08
Metropolis
2:07
Adjustable Throes
3:23
Soulou
4:08
Windrower
3:47
Outhood (play)
3:47
Calypso's Dream (play)
3:46
Time Travellers
4:30
Fate's Foxtrot
0:25
Coming In (On a Wing and a Prayer)
33:13



Palmistry
$15
Palmistry is an exploration of possibilities for computer and virtual piano. These etudes are in turn charming, melodic, eccentric, and full of rhythmic vitality. It's keyboard music for 2,3,4, and 5 hands.
Rousseau's Circus (play)
1:57
Blink Blank
1:15
Reconfirm
2:24
CBCD
4:12
Cyclo (play)
2:41
Chorinho #3
2:03
Wide Life
2:52
Borsalino
2:24
4 on the Floor (play)
2:26
Slipside
2:50
Somewhat Samba
1:27
Cecil
0:50
Blumonk (play)
2:27
Celadonia
2:47
Triolais
2:33
Riverrun
4:13
Rousseau's Moon
2:43
A Little Morning Music
1:04
Vaults
2:48
Chiba Choro
2:01
Time Will Tell
1:42
Itty Bitty Bop
0:53
Fate Foxtrot
0:39
Surjorio
2:02



Albert's Bicycle
$15
Albert's Bicycle is in a more contemplative vein. Included are pieces for gallery installations and multi-media dance/theater. There is a probing quality and gentle glisten. The album features Jon's mixing his various musical styles and influences with samples and midi files, as well as some solo work by the brilliant Brazilian accordionist, Chico Chagas.
Home By Bicycle (play)
22:55
The Book of Radiance
10:15
Other Echoes
19:45
An Algebra of Time (play)
7:00
The Law of Calling (play)
4:15
Gathered at the Waters
9:35



Listening to the Earth
$15
Listening to the Earth was originally scored for a full-length children's dance concert written and directed by Tandy Beal. The concert has been performed in numerous locations throughout the U.S. with over 5,000 children participating.
Pied Piper Waltz
Listen to the Earth Beat
Fan Fare (The Call)
Moshi Moshi
Asia Numero Uno
Flip Flop
Tropicalia
On the Move
Night Sky
Enchanted Run
Gamelan George
Starstream
Adjustable Jones
Pied Piper Waltz (reprise)



Running Man Music
$9
is a series of scores for the choreography of Tandy Beal and Phyllis Haskell. Written in the late '80's, it is full of drama and mystery, from dance rituals to musical snapshots of Brazil. Available only as a cassette..
The Bone People
Boca Do Ceu
Roots in the Dark
What Our Ancestors Knew
Neither Darkness Nor Science
It Will Undo Him (Pity This Monster, Man)