Music for Hard Times: Volume 1 (Danny Clay)

Part 1 - 00:00 Part 2 - 06:13 Part 3 - 09:04 Part 4 - 11:29 Part 5 - 16:49 Part 6 - 20:22 Part 7 - 24:27 Part 8 - 28:26 Film: Jon Fischer () Composer: Danny Clay () Performance: The Living Earth Show () Written and recorded March 2020 Buy the album: () Built with the aim of offering a sonic resource for comfort and calming, composer Danny Clay and The Living Earth Show (percussionist Andy Meyerson and guitarist Travis Andrews) created Music for Hard Times: an eight movement work crafted using a series of composed “calming exercises,“ recorded independently in their homes using instruments, voices, field recordings, and found objects. The work is built to be listened to on a continuous loop if desired--that is, the eighth movement segues back into the first so that the listener has agency over the length of their own listening experience. Music for Hard Times is a work of experimental music in the truest sense, in that it was created to