Category Archives: Music

Nearly 600 original music pieces, jgyoungmd music diary

I just found a DVD of my 2005 mp3 Music Diary.  Although some pieces were longer than the 10 minutes of music soundclick.com allows, there were over 30 pieces of original free improv pieces that I could put up for … Continue reading

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Breathing Earth

This existential video poem was created in our backyard. I created a similar music video several years ago probably one of my most beautiful music improvisations

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Active Imagination through Guided Imagery

I developed this guided imaginary at the Metropolitan State College in Denver when I was teaching Creativity in Business. It was a first freely improvising on the piano to hearing the script in the headphones. Subsequently I used the guided … Continue reading

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Outside the Dushanbe Teahouse

Wonderful innocence of childhood and other play at the Dushanbe Teahouse in Boulder CO with free improv piano music also recorded on my cellphone at the end of July 2013

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New Music and Video from Note 2

I have been having fun creating with my cellphone.  There are two new pieces of music recorded placing the phone on the grand piano.  The videos, of a visit to Diane’s cousin in Breckenridge, CO and Sophie our guard dog … Continue reading

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110828 Boulder Creek Path

I did this unedited free improv on my six foot Kawai grand piano on November 8, 2011 and the spring video shot of the Boulder Creek Path with a 42x optical lens on May 22, 2013. I like how the … Continue reading

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Clouds

Dual keyboard free improv creation, 130516b, is set to relaxing cloud movement just above the trees. The poem preceded it by many years. For purchase of the music of the windchimed [not “The act of smoking a banana stoggey, black … Continue reading

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Riffs 130509

While sitting outside at Riffs, a new restaurant on the Pearl Street Mall, I took the following video with my cellphone, partly to explore the idea of “riffs” and to share my riffs with a piece of music done on … Continue reading

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My Poetry and Music Creations

Being both a poet and musician, I find many interesting similarities in the ways I create both. What Charles Olsen (Poetry New York No. 3, 1950) calls projective [breath-related] poetry writing vs. non-projective [closed verse], “line, syllable, image, sound, sense, … Continue reading

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New Video Organization at www.youtube.com/jgyoungmd

I have totally rearranged my video site of 130 videos into more usable categories so you can go directly to stuff you like Recent Uploads, Popular Uploads, Features Videos, Music, Poetry, Paintings, Animations, Digital Art. There is some overlap but … Continue reading

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