The Lumen Arc
Hear the seven modes as a spectrum of brightness, from Lydian radiance to Locrian instability. A practical framework for composing with modal color.
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Methods, foundations, and practical tools for the composer’s desk.
Hear the seven modes as a spectrum of brightness, from Lydian radiance to Locrian instability. A practical framework for composing with modal color.
Turn Fibonacci, fractals, primes, and Euclidean rhythm into expressive melody, harmony, and form. Explore the interplay of musical growth and return.
Explore a twelve-color approach to key, mode, emotion, and timbre—a compositional compass for hearing music through light and color.
Translate Tarot, the I Ching, runes, and other symbolic systems into compositional choices. Chance becomes a collaborator; the ear remains the guide.
Two volumes trace harmony from its structural foundations to its expressive use across genres. Study harmonic motion, reharmonization, emotional design, and composition.
Discover how melody, rhythm, harmony, texture, dynamics, and form create musical anticipation and arrival. A working vocabulary for shaping emotional movement.
From pulse and meter to polyrhythm and groove, explore how cultures organize musical time—and how rhythm gives a composition its life.
Explore Western modes, maqam, raga, pentatonic traditions, and more. Learn to hear scales as expressive worlds and use them as compositional resources.
Meet the instrumental palette through range, timbre, technique, and orchestration. A practical reference for choosing voices and combining them with intention.
Discover the musical fingerprints of fifty-one composers across nine centuries. The method and its companion cards turn close listening into creative understanding.
Explore a spiritual music of remembrance, allowance, and shared joy. Gospel history, compositional method, and album studies meet in a new musical vision.
Focused explorations of musical language, history, and imagination.
A practical catalogue of cinematic harmony, organized by history and expressive purpose—from suspense and melancholy to romance, wonder, and heroic scale.
Revisit Tchaikovsky’s harmony manual through examples from his symphonies, ballets, and operas. Theory becomes a window into a composer’s own musical language.
Follow the tritone from medieval controversy to tonal harmony, jazz, and film scoring. Explore the expressive possibilities of this restless half-octave.
Discover Museca’s original synthesis of Afro House, Neo-Soul, West African spiritual energy, and cinematic atmosphere—a musical identity shaped by rhythm and devotion.
A cultural history of music at the threshold of death, spanning civilizations and traditions. From ancient Egyptian song to jazz funerals and contemporary remembrance.
Explore the bass clarinet’s history and expressive range, from orchestral color to a featured voice of mystery, solitude, lyricism, and emotional depth.
Explore the history, harmonic framework, and creative potential of the most unstable diatonic mode—a scale without the security of a perfect fifth.
A wide-ranging study of Phrygian color, from ancient philosophy and medieval modality to later musical traditions and expressive practice.
Trace fifteen centuries of Western scalar thinking through historical periods and changing musical languages. A study of how scales shape—and disrupt—musical expression.
A contemplative companion to You Are the Path, You Are the Dream, and You Are the One. Music, reflection, and imagery trace a journey toward unity.
Explore the compositional architecture of the Sotto Voce series: twelve rules, a harmonic journey from tenderness to grace, and a practical album-building method.
Examine fifty-one unforgettable melodies across three centuries through notation, harmony, shape, and listening references. Includes twenty principles for composing melodies that endure.
Original dramatic worlds in which music carries the story.
An original comic musical reimagines Mozart’s final chapter through farce, romance, and historical mystery. Twenty-two original songs meet seven authentic Mozart excerpts.
In nineteenth-century Russia, a gifted composer journeys from childhood grief toward freedom, accompanied by a guardian angel he cannot see.
An intimate theatrical world inspired by Chopin and George Sand. Love, illness, labor, memory, and silence reveal the emotional cost of living beside brilliance.
Inside a rehearsal studio, two dancers move from guarded rivalry toward shared risk. An intimate pas de deux about the invisible field between people.
Unknown manuscripts, a hidden signature, and an unanswered death connect two centuries. A historical mystery structured around the movements of the Pathétique.
Projects that bring narrative, reflection, and music into performance.
Paris, 1935–1939: a young singer and an enigmatic German woman form an unlikely friendship as Europe darkens. Story, suspense, and a companion soundtrack.
A two-part soundtrack and performance concept reimagines the legacy of the Dies Irae. Death becomes reunion, recognition, and homecoming rather than judgment.
Stories shaped by listening, imagination, and the life within.
A manuscript written from beyond death draws David into a guided life review. Memory becomes architecture, and the consequences of a life demand to be seen.
One soul encounters fragments of other lives, each refracted through a different emotional and spiritual color. Separate hues gradually become a coherent awareness.
A man devoted to maps and certainty enters a riverside village that quietly unsettles his need for control. Listening becomes a different way of living.
Explore how inherited beliefs shape the world we experience. Symbolic rooms and turning points invite a movement from unconscious conditioning toward conscious authorship.
A child’s gentle questions soften a rigid system. Curiosity, kindness, and stillness open a story about learning to listen with the heart.
A hotel room becomes a threshold shaped by belief. Guided by a mysterious presence, Arthur confronts the fears and assumptions that have quietly governed his life.
An illustrated novella for ages seven and up. An elephant and a skylark discover friendship, trust, and the meaning of home after meeting in a storm.
From the page to the ear
Explore original albums composed as musical extensions of the textbook series. The Spiral and the Circle and The Oracle Composer carry their central ideas into sound.
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