Music for Hard Times: Volume 2, Part 1

Film: Jon Fischer Composer: Danny Clay Performance: The Living Earth Show The San Francisco Girls Chorus, and musicians from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Written in 2020 and recorded in 2021 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 desiredthat 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 answer a fundamental research question: is it possible for