Reward Music

A collection of songs that I wrote/performed for commercials and videos over the years. Enjoy......

A snipe is a bird which has the wonderful ability to soar down through the sky, making the air “winnow” through his tail feathers, producing a wonderful hu-hu-hu-hu-hu.  He will make huge loops over and over, supposedly to...

All of the sounds you here are from a bird call I recorded one evening from my window.  I never heard it after that one time.  For program notes and then technical details, please click here....

William Scharnberg played a great performance of the entire set at the International Horn Symposium, summer 2024.  The recording we got wasn't the greatest, so I'm in the process of remastering that.  So some of the pieces...

These are recordings taken from my old bands practice sessions (Blonde). When I say “old band”, I mean the band that got back together after our split (because of The Grace of God through the kindness of an old...

This is the Donkey Bray part for "Living With My Donkeys, for Horn and Donkey Bray."   Contact me if you'd like a copy of the score and accompanying sounds on CD, MP3 or Card.  Click here to see how I composed these...

These five little fat pigs were written between 1988 and 1990 when I just had a used Ensoniq EPS sampling keyboard with an onboard sequencer.  I recorded a few pizz sounds from an old violin I had, and a few other things--a...

These are a series of little pieces written back in 1990.  At that point I only had an EPS Ensoniq sampler keyboard--no dedicated computer.  I sampled my little harmonica, a little drum, a tiny crotales bell, a meadowlark,...

These early (1990) pieces were composed on my EPS Ensoniq sampling keyboard, using only the sounds of Sprite pop cans jangling together, a small drum and a small tubular bell.  I used a small 4-track cassette tape recorder to...

CHRISTMAS NIGHT The songs Christmas Night was Julia’s third release in 2020. “I had this song for so long sitting on my computer…  First I wrote the song to sell to tv shows and movies, but then I started to feel attached...

Nook the Magnificent Sheep was a 4-hour old bum lamb when he went to live with Savanah Salisbury, a young 4-H student.  For the first 6 months of his life, he lived in town, and became the darling of the neighborhood, going...

For notes on how I used the "pop" of the plastic cork of these two bottles to create this music, click here....

Dirty Dishes This is a tune my producer Larson Ghormley wrote and asked me to sing on a new version he was producing (he has an original version, but figured he’d make another one). Interestingly enough, the morning he had...

When I was in the mountains I heard the most incredible coyote song.  It echoed across the mountain valleys I was camped above, and off the canyon walls.  Surely the coyotes knew what a wonderful place that was to sing.  All...

This little piece is made totally from clicking two rocks together and then a little toy cymbal.  For more on the wonderful goat Egon and how I wrote this, click here....

All the sounds you hear are from various pieces of frozen things around the farm, enduring a 30 below winter....  For notes about this set of pieces, click here.               ...

This recently received the International Alliance of Women in Music Honorable Mention for the Pauline Oliveros New Genre Prize.  This is the Stand-Alone Version.  Click here for the Donkey Bray part for the Horn Version. You...

When I am in the mountains, I am very careful to hang my food high and keep a clean camp.  Although I’ve never had a bear in my camp (that I know of), I’ve seen my share of them.  The animal that most frightens me, however,...

Soon after my first two dogs died of old age, my father died.  A thoughtful theologian, I doubt if he believed in a heaven, but somehow the title seemed ok....   I remastered this piece I wrote way back in 1994.  This used a...

All the sounds you hear are from recordings I made from my farm.  To see how I did that, plus see some fantastic pictures of my dear animals, click here....

I was reading an article about Arnold Lobel and his Toad and Frog books from The New Yorker by Colin Stokes when, strangely at the same time, my friend Mark sent me some sounds of frogs he had heard on a walk in his Iowa...

These three little pieces were written back in 1990 on my Ensoniq sampling keyboard with it's tiny 3 x 6 cm screen for the onboard recording sequencer.  (In other words--this was before my computer, Cubase, sound effect...

My sister, pictured here with rhubarb from her garden, tapped out a couple sounds on those rhubarb flower stalks for me.  All the sounds you hear in "The Rhubarb Run" are from that initial tapping (which you can hear in the...