Philip David Stern

Composer

Gentle swelling waves of strings with light ambient piano.

A soothing instrumental piece featuring delicate string waves and ambient piano.

Slow Sleepy Strings

I'm just sitting at the piano playing minimal sustained sounds...staying calm and open...

Sitting at piano playing sustained sounds, staying calm and open.

Sustained Solo Piano Modes

Sparse like a night sky with lush strings and light sustained piano.

Sparse night sky with lush strings & light piano.

Infinity Spaces Strings

Just some gentle piano and strings to lull you into the universe of dreams...

Soothing piano and strings take you to the universe of dreams.

Milky Way Dreaming

Looking out at a rainy day the tremolo strings and reflective piano as a backdrop.

Rainy day ambience with tremolo strings and reflective piano.

Rainfall Tremolo

Improvised thoughts of wide open skies and mountains...

Mental imagery of vast landscapes: skies and mountains.

Western Open Sky Dreaming

Super gentle and simple piano whispering 'go to sleep'.

Go To Sleep Softly

Gentle piano melodies rise and fall with strings.

Piano melodies accompanied by strings rise and fall gently.

Falling... Falling... Falling.. To Sleep

Sparse solo piano gently drifting on a soft breeze.

Minimalist solo piano floating in gentle wind.

Drifting

This is a deep and vast ocean, that rises and falls with grace and grandeur, strings, deep drums, and piano.

An oceanic piece of music with strings, deep drums, and piano that moves gracefully and grandly.

Rise And Fall Ocean Swell

With a haunting melody with sustained solo piano, one can imagine a beautiful and mysterious sky.

A haunting piano melody evokes a beautiful and mysterious sky.

Haunting Lights

Very sparse solo piano echoing to the universe.

Stardust Dreamer

Floaty solo piano light as a feather dusting off the keys, sustained, modal, drifting.

Light and drifting solo piano with sustained, modal notes.

Dozing Overtones

Something to brush your teeth to, or make your bed in the morning. It is deep acoustic bass filling the air with overtones.

Deep acoustic bass fills the air with overtones, perfect for brushing your teeth or making your bed in the morning.

In The Waking Hours

Very few notes, super soft sustained piano, from Brahms' lullaby - I almost fell asleep recording this, so I hope it helps you fall into a beautiful slumber...

Brahms' lullaby played softly on the piano to help you fall asleep peacefully.

Go To Sleep

Wake up to the sunrise; springtime feeling. The day is going to be full of possibility, creativity, and wonder. Strings and piano.

A sunrise-filled day full of possibility, creativity, and wonder, with strings and piano.

Sunrise Dream

A lullaby feels on piano with strings. Today I took a melody from a theme to a TV series I wrote, sat at the piano, and made it lullaby-like - it was fun to revisit this tune I wrote well over a decade ago and give it sleepy life again.

Composer turns TV series theme into a lullaby on piano with strings after over a decade, finding it fun to revisit the tune.

Heartfelt Lullaby

Solo piano. Coffee floating. Just sitting at the piano this morning, sips of a cup of coffee, and improvising on a little motif that floated out of the coffee steam...

Morning piano improvisation with coffee inspiration.

Morning Coffee Floating

A little sad solo piano. A melody of mine that today I played freely in my free time. It's a reflective tune with brush strokes of melancholy and a dash of hope and strength.

Reflective solo piano melody with hints of melancholy and hope.

Solitude Melancholy Melody

A few bluesy notes on the piano I played this morning, for that bluesy time any day - reflective and calm, swaying gently in the blue mood

Bluesy piano notes played for a reflective and calm mood, perfect for any blue day.

A Little Bluesy

Cello, piano melody - seems like it's been raining a lot, so this sprung to life this afternoon, like rain splashing on clear puddles with energy.

A lively cello and piano melody inspired by rain splashing on puddles.

Constant Rain

Solo piano that's all and that's ok because the sun is shining today.

It's Okay

Often times I'm playing and I think I've made a mistake, I go back and listen and I love the mistake - at the top of this piece, I stopped and started - rather than edit it out I left it in - maybe there's a lesson here? Let that coffee splash!

Embrace mistakes in music, learn from them. Let flaws stay, instead of editing them out. Maybe there's a lesson here in embracing imperfections.

Not So Seriously

Movie buffs may be reminded of these chord changes. Usually accompanied by some sort of magic - so I'm just having fun here dancing around the stars dust on piano.

Piano playing is compared to magic and reminds movie buffs of chord changes.

The Stars Dust

Just jamming on the piano, on a bluesy tune I wrote... late in the evening, around midnight.

Playing self-written bluesy tune on piano at midnight.

Midnight Bluesy

Gently drifting sustained strings improvising, centered, as the muse takes you away, like drifting on easy mist.

Sustained strings gently improvise, transporting you away like drifting on mist, guided by the muse's inspiration.

Drifting Strings And Piano

Discovering as we go, solo piano - just improvising and meandering.

Solo piano improvisation, exploring unknown paths and melodies.

Meandering Stream

Just sitting at the piano, recording, and simply playing and accepting what sounds occur. Hope everyone has a good day.

The author shares their peaceful experience of recording and playing the piano spontaneously, wishing everyone a good day.

Monday Eleven O'clock Piano Musings

A blanket of snow, a wood stove heating a cabin, and meandering and improvising on piano and strings.

Cozy winter ambiance with gentle piano and string melodies in a snow-covered cabin.

Sounds Of The Snowed Inn

I'm just tryin' something new here, singing freely on vowel sounds as I play piano. Reverberating like singing into a canyon, haunting and meditative.

A musician explores a new style of singing on vowel sounds while playing the piano, creating haunting and meditative reverberations.

Canyon Voice Echoes

Gentle harmonics and patterns create an ambient background for sleep.

Soothing harmonics and patterns form a peaceful sleep soundtrack.

Curved Space

Gentle cello and piano to lull you to sleep.

Relaxing cello and piano music to help you sleep peacefully.

Gentle Breeze

Gentle sustained solo piano, sitting at my Yamaha grand, and just playing some easy and sustained music (I almost fell asleep playing it, so I hope you will too! Sweet dreams! Philip

Soothing solo piano music played on a Yamaha grand, perfect for relaxation and sweet dreams.

Drifting Off

The Lullaby motif rising through all twelve tones on the piano in major chords.

Lullaby motif played on piano in major chords spans all twelve tones.

Lullaby Chords Rising

Sitting at the Yamaha grand and just improvising on the feeling of calm waves of sound. Drift off...

Lost in tranquility while playing the Yamaha grand piano, letting the calm waves of sound carry you away in peaceful improvisation.

Calm Waves

Today, sitting at the grand piano and noodling on major seventh harmony, shifting tonalities, and just dreamy and heavenly...sweet dreams

Playing grand piano with major seventh harmony, shifting tonalities, dreamy and heavenly - sweet dreams.

Major Seventh Heaven

Improvising on piano, a little gentle waltz motif.

Piano improvisation with a delicate waltz motif.

Tracks by Philip David Stern