Leon Lindon

My band project, Colos­seum The­sis, now has a Band­Mix pro­file up, as we are cur­rently seek­ing a new gui­tarist to add to the lineup. If you or any of your friends play pro­gres­sive power metal on gui­tar, do con­tact us via the Band­Mix pro­file, or send an e-mail to applications@colosseumthesis.com. Thank you!

I must gen­uinely apol­o­gize for the lack of updates–with my musi­cal activ­i­ties of late this site has been the lesser of my pri­or­i­ties. Regard­less of this fact, I have taken notice of the fact that the site has a lit­tle more traf­fic than it used to, so I will try to post some things.

As for news, I recently guided my good friend, the “cool­hunter” and travel jour­nal­ist La Carmina as she toured my town of res­i­dence. So far two posts have appeared on her blog which fea­ture me and shine some light on my activ­i­ties, in par­tic­u­lar my upcom­ing band project Colos­seum The­sis.

In one post, we explore goth night life at club Sanc­tum and dine at the delight­ful Blue Hound Kitchen in down­town Phoenix.

In another, we get spir­i­tual in Sedona and explore the new age cul­ture of this one-of-a-kind desert town.

Be sure not to miss these action-packed posts, as well as future items that will emerge, includ­ing a travel video La Carmina is work­ing on which will also include var­i­ous appear­ances from me and some brand-new back­ground music of my own authorship…

I for­got I had writ­ten a small sound­track for a clip of the Ger­man film Metrop­o­lis for school some time ago. We were told to imi­tate the styles of two of the com­posers we had stud­ied, so I chose Philip Glass and Claude Debussy. I mim­ic­ked Philip Glass in the inclu­sion of repet­i­tive arpeg­giated chord struc­tures with a lyri­cal melody atop them. Claude Debussy was imi­tated in the inclu­sion of planed chords, modal notes, and soft dynamics.

(Note: I used the video clip strictly for edu­ca­tional pur­poses under the prin­ci­ple known as fair usage. The orig­i­nal copy­right hold­ers retain the rights to it and I do not intend to infringe upon them. How­ever, the music is my own and I reserve all rights to it). 

Who’s ready for some vocal music? Today I share with you a single-track record­ing that was made just a short while ago with the help of vocal­ist Ser­a­fina and pianist Speedy. It is a new arrange­ment set for mezzo soprano voice, of an old com­po­si­tion for piano that can be heard on the Music page. Back then, it was called Silence, Sweet Silence, but now, I call this arrange­ment sim­ply Silence.

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Did you know that Ser­a­fina is the vocal­ist in my upcom­ing neo-classical elec­tropop project, Chiaroscuro? Stay tuned to hear more of her beau­ti­ful voice…

Long time no see! As promised, I now have some recent music to show you all, for an upcom­ing videogame being pro­duced by the mul­ti­me­dia com­pany Boru­pen! Stu­dios. As the game is still in devel­op­ment I can’t reveal any­thing about the songs whatsoever…though, of course, as soon as the game is released I can.

I have the songs set to loop in my audio play­back script as you would expect to hear them in the game, but my web script seems to have a slight lag in the loop func­tion, so don’t panic if you hear that–the songs loop seam­lessly within a DAW and I assume they will within the game as well.

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In any case, do enjoy the music and should you ever wind up at a comic book or anime con­ven­tion, do look for Boru­pen’s exhibit; they are extremely nice peo­ple and always have fun pro­mo­tions and activ­i­ties for fans.

I apol­o­gize for the brief silence. I have been work­ing on many com­mis­sioned pieces that I can’t share just yet so please stay tuned! There may be some new music arriv­ing based in a new project I am form­ing soon as well. And I have heaped upon myself a mas­sive under­tak­ing: my first sym­phony, which I hope to have fin­ished by the end of sum­mer. Any­way, no new music I’m proud enough of to show right now, but soon enough!

Hello every­one. Sadly, today I have no music to post, but I do have a well-deserved plug for a friend of mine. String is a self-designated Cre­ative Alchemist which means that she applies the prin­ci­ples of alchemy and cre­ativ­ity to the trans­for­ma­tion of life itself, hon­ing in on dynamic rela­tion­ships and unseen pos­si­bil­i­ties through art, intu­itive thought, and research. Although it is not easy to sum­ma­rize the plethora of activ­i­ties String is involved in, she is cur­rently oper­at­ing the new sunn cre­ative label rep­re­sent­ing the music of guitarist/singer/composer/arranger Tony Lowe and Tony Lowe Pro­duc­tions (this is where the post does tie in to music so please check out her web­site if you want to hear some), as well as act­ing as a busi­ness man­ager rep­re­sent­ing cre­ative indi­vid­u­als and orga­ni­za­tions. And, as always, she is writ­ing on her blog, Cre­ative Alchemy (which comes highly rec­om­mended by me for all those who want to read some­thing fas­ci­nat­ing), about all of this and more. The hub for all of her many web­sites and projects is listed, as always, at the bot­tom of my site under the “Friends” sec­tion, but you can also visit it by click­ing here.

I had every intent on work­ing on other things tonight, but instead I wrote some­thing totally from spur-of-the-moment inspi­ra­tion. I call it Remem­brance, it is a piece for harp or gui­tar which derives its sound from many influ­ences. As I just described it to a friend of mine, it is “part Appalachian, part West­ern, part Medieval, part Romantic-era lul­laby”. I plan on expand­ing this into some­thing larger so for now I won’t put it on the Music page.

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Soon to come is some video-game-influenced music!

Hello all. Today I offer you the first move­ment of my piano sonata, which is in an alle­gretto tempo and in the key of E major. It is sup­posed to be in the style of the clas­si­cal era. I stud­ied the music of Beethoven while writ­ing it but I have been told it sounds more like Mozart. As for my opin­ion of what it sounds like, I’m indif­fer­ent; for me it was more of a learn­ing exer­cise. I usu­ally write more som­bre music but I was kind of stuck with a major key since this is my first sonata. I intend to write the rest of the sonata soon, but for now I’m offer­ing up the first move­ment, so please enjoy it!

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I wasn’t exag­ger­at­ing when I said I was going to be updat­ing this site reg­u­larly. For today I offer you in the early hours of the morn­ing (see time­stamp), a lit­tle exer­cise I wrote for piano, which I call Silence, Sweet Silence.

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This was writ­ten more or less to match the har­monic ten­den­cies of the Roman­tic era, and thus I used sev­eral tech­niques and chords which you would hear in that type of music.

Of course, it would be nice if it were longer, but like Satie, I have a pen­chant for writ­ing short pieces any­way, so I like it.

The rampantly-changing moods were achieved through a need to exper­i­ment in mod­u­la­tions but I actu­ally really like the effect of the tonal insta­bil­ity and I felt that the over­all impres­sion was akin to the insta­bil­ity of human emotion.