Before Moss heard Beatty’s music, he heard the veteran’s story. Amazed by his journey and the way the composition got here to Beatty, the 2 met and located that they had related pursuits in music kinds, and Moss was excited to leap on the undertaking. 

“Coming Home — A Journey of Healing through Music” is made up of a number of 3-5-minute tracks, performed by an ensemble of string, brass, woodwind and percussion. They’re punchy, Beatty stated, as he does not like his music to remain in a single place for too lengthy. 

“[The composition] just is very string-focused, very expressive, very musical in the way that it sort of shapes up and down,” Moss stated. “Each individual track is a story you know, it tells a story. It is a journey in a way.” 

In addition to working with Beatty to deliver collectively an ensemble and conduct the dwell recording, Moss can be the music copyist, taking the compositions Beatty used laptop software program to create and making it simpler for a musician to observe. 

Once dwell recording is completed, Beatty and Moss do not have a set plan, however relying on funding and different components, they may transfer in direction of releasing the recordings for buy or scheduling dwell performances for folks to attend. 

“I think the goal right now in Spencer’s and my mind both is just, let’s get this thing that he’s created and make it human,” Moss stated. “Let’s put real humans behind it and get something that he can record and he can take with him for the rest of his life and into his retirement and feel proud of. Any life that has after that, I think, will just be icing on the cake.”