The Music Box
You can use this player to listen to any of the songs described below. (Or just click on the song title to download.)
All parts are played by MB unless otherwise noted.
This song was inspired by a guy I saw on The Weather Channel predicting how many named hurricanes there would be that year. Seventeen, he thought.
Jack Burgess -
I wanted to record a song with verses that were spoken rather than sung, so I wrote this. The hypnotic groove reminds me of someone driving on a highway in the rain, just thinking.
Jack Burgess -
I sometimes like to break away from “normal” pop songs and write and record an instrumental piece like this one. The challenge is to keep it interesting without a lyric to rely on!
This song was inspired by the dystopian future depicted in the film THX1138, directed by George Lucas back when he was a film student.
Jack Burgess -
Insufficient Evidence Was Found
This song was recorded using Cubase on a MacBook in January 2010. It’s one of the most complex songs I’ve ever recorded!
Pam Beery -
John Boyd -
This song was recorded using Apple’s Logic software in September 2010. I extracted short snippets from material John and I recorded and then “assembled” the snippets, along with some percussion loops, into a song.
John Boyd -
Here are a couple of music videos I made using GarageBand and iMovie. In each case, I created the song first, then used iMovie to edit a collection of video clips to match up with the music. (The clips themselves were recorded with an inexpensive digital camera in “video” mode.) The completed videos were then uploaded to YouTube.