The Art of Listening

This album can be viewed as a placeholder of sorts. A collection of works in interim. Or, put more simply, demo recordings. The recordings on this album are made with Spitfire plug-ins and arranged in Logic X. While this album is realized with MIDI, its origins are far different.

From 2020 to 2025, I was living back home in New Orleans and found myself with a lot of time on my hands. I was able to use this time to explore my deep love for mallet percussion. I bought some slate tiles and copper pipe and set about making a lithophone and a four octave set of copper chimes. These are the tools I used, along with my unfaltering companion, my Gibson Les Paul, to begin composing the rough ideas and parts that I would then arrange for a chamber ensemble in Logic X.

Writing these songs gave me meaning during the last five years and it got to a point where I knew I couldn't just let them sit on my hard drive heard only by me. Music is meant to be shared, after all.

The end goal was, and always will be, to bring people together to perform the music. These demo recordings are just a step in that process. I do hope it’s a seed that leads to many performances of these works in the years to come.

- Daniel Amedee, 2025

“The Art of Listening” is available on BandCamp under the ‘pay-what-you-can’ model. Please consider making a donation of your choosing if you download the album. It is an album of Modern Classical music for Piano, Glockenspiel, Chimes, 2 Violins, Viola, and Cello.