LVDT Simulator

 

Discography

Selected Works 1988 - 1997 (1997)

Self-published CD, limited pressing of 200 copies, released to family and friends.

Track Listing

Night and Day
Fare Thee Well
Flight Over Baghdad
Amazing Grace
In dulci Jubilo (Bach)
Two-part Invention in F Major (Bach)
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (Bach)
Washington
My Backyard
Takikawa
Moonlight (Beethoven)
Maxwell's Equations
Rigaudon (Campra)
The Midnight Oil
In Humility (Pritchard / Copley)
Toccata in d minor (Bach)
Solace (Joplin)
Addendum


MP3 Collection (1999)

Published via the original (and now defunct) mp3.com through their "Digital automatic music" service, this album was never publicly available.  (This was at the very beginning of the "democratization of music" revolution in the music industry, significantly boosting the prospects of independent artists to get their works published.)

Many of the tracks were from "Selected Works." Only a few copies were produced and released only to family and friends.

[cover not available]

Track Listing

Night and Day
Fare Thee Well
Amazing Grace
In Dulci Jubilo (Buxtehude)
In Dulci Jubilo (Bach)
Maxwell's Equations
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (Bach)
Washington
My Backyard
Moonlight (Beethoven)
Addendum


Classical Simulations (2000, remastered in 2003)

Self-published CD-R, limited copies, released to family and friends.  Many pieces were from "Selected Works" or "MP3 Collection."  In 2003, each piece was remastered from the original 4-track tape and minidisk originals.

Track Listing

Toccata in d minor (Bach)
Rigaudon (Campra)
Chorale (Bach)
Solace (Joplin)
Adagio (Bach)
Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring (Bach)
Moonlight (Beethoven)
When Thou Art Near (Bach)
Prelude in c minor (Chopin)
Two-part Invention in a minor (Bach)
In Dulci Jubilo (Buxtehude)
In Dulci Jubilo (Bach)
In Humility (Pritchard/Copley)
In Dir ist Freude (Bach)
Triumphal March (Handel)


November (2015)

After a 15 year hiatus from making music, I set my sights on making a "real" album, available commercially through iTunes, Amazon.com, etc.  In doing so, I re-recorded a few pieces from past limited releases and added many new pieces.

Track Listing

Night and Day*
Londonderry Air (traditional)
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (Bach)*
Autumn Day
Theme from Ignacio (Vangelis, used by permission)
Stellar Nursery
Progress
Abstracted
My Backyard*
Prelude in b-flat minor (Bach)
November
Fare Thee Well*

*These pieces were featured on previous, private LVDT Simulator releases.  However, these are all-new arrangements and recordings.


Cleared for Takeoff (2018)

After becoming an "empty nester" in 2016, I returned to the studio and created my second major release.  This time, I added Spotify and other streaming services to my distribution channels through my publisher.    That's my oldest grandchild on the cover :-)

Liner notes (pdf)

Track Listing

Cleared for Takeoff
In Dir Ist Freude (Bach)
Palm Leaf Rag (Joplin)
Crumble
Aria (Handel)
Broon's Bane (Lifeson, Rush)
Soros 145
Seattle Rain ("Ellen's Song")
The Machine
Herr Christ, der einig Gottes Sohn (Buxtehude)
Prayer in c minor
Tundra
Short Final
Golberg Variation #30 (Bach)


Three (2022)

Much of this album was created during the covid pandemic.  During this period I also lost my mother.  This album is dedicated to her.

Liner notes (pdf)

 

Track Listing

Confluence
Memory of a Bygone Age
Prelude in C Major with Ave Maria melody [Bach/Gounod]
Panegyric
Anthems (for my grandchildren)
The Wavicle
Three Minor Preludes [Chopin]
Toccata [Widor]
Elegy [Tsujii]
Dance with Me

 

A Peom I like

Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower; 
But only so an hour.

Then leaf subsides to leaf,
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day Nothing gold can stay. 

- Robert Frost