Computer-generated music, shared freely
This is where I share my interest in computer-generated music with friends, and the occasional stranger who wanders in from somewhere else on the web. I've always been drawn to the math underneath music — Fourier transforms, harmonic overtones, the way a waveform breaks down into simple sine components — and to what that structure does to the brain: why a minor third feels wistful, why a steady pulse can lower your heart rate, why some chord progressions make you tear up for no clear reason. The Cowboys of Cloud 9 are my way of playing with those ideas directly. They aren't a band in any human sense — no members, no rehearsals, no green room. They exist only as the flow of energy through silicon, and they've settled, somewhat to my surprise, into a genre of futuristic, synthetic cowboys playing alt country out past the edge of the solar system.
Follow the trail below — it runs from the frontiers of Mars all the way back home to the shoreline.
Chapter One
The Cowboys take their music to the frontiers of space with their Memories of Mars series, an instrumental journey to the thunderous realms of Cloud 9 — drifting souls, the Marineris River, and faces in the cloud under a starry sky.
Drifting Souls · Floating on the Marineris River · Faces in the Cloud · Cowboys of Cloud 9
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Chapter Two
The Cowboys travel to the back 40 of deep space with Cowboy Concerto in C, Milky Way Breezes, Grandpa's Picking All Night Long, and the all-time favorite Sometimes Late at Night (I Hear Angels Singing).
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Chapter Three
The Cowboys look forward with their latest collection: Campfire by the Water, She Must Be My Angel, and We'll Watch the Sun Set in Heaven.
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Chapter Four
The Cowboys trade the stars for the shoreline with a collection written closer to home: Coldwater Creek, My Hula Girl, Steady as the Rising Tide, and the title track Forever Yours.
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In Progress · AI Collaboration
An experimental collaboration with AI: the Cowboys play chord-progression sketches built through the programming skills of Claude and the rhythmic instincts of Grok — raw working material for songs still to come.
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