passing tones

reason d’etre

Some songs spring from the shadows of a half-developed melody or painfully emerge from a loosely constructed chord progression. Others are born complete; the whole song seemingly precomposed and silently gifted to the vessel known as the songwriter. Still other songs never quite make it. They are abandoned, aborted, forgotten or left to mature until they are ready to become. Regardless, a process is undertaken within the composer. All of the aspects making up that person, at that moment, take shape through the act of creation and find form in the shades of silence and sound that is Music.

This site is my sketchbook. It’s a place for me to work through that process and share it with anyone who happens upon it. Some of these ideas will fizzle out while others may be realized and re-realized in time. The lyrics will change, the melodies will develop and the process will be documented. Please feel free to comment, suggest, critique, enjoy or ignore.

The idea behind this site was unconsciously inspired by the Tenseforms project, Muted Tones (hence the not-too-subtle title).

All music and words copyright V.J. Hyde. If you’d like to use anything from this site, simply ask.