WELCOME!

Flying Cube Productions was formed to serve as a commercial channel for Rafe Lyford's creative output in the worlds of web based media, music recordings, & music publishing. Rafe Lyford is the sole proprietor, although as evident from reading below, he has had the much appreciated help of many friends and family.

In the beginning...

The first recording project for Flying Cube, Rafe Lyford's Kind of Intrinsic, was released at the end of 2001. It is comprised of all original instrumental jazz tunes that are also published through Flying Cube Productions. The musicians on the recording were Rafe Lyford, trombone; Max Wendt, saxophones; Scott Van Domelen, saxophones; Matt Netter, upright bass; Jim Guckenberg, drums & percussion; and Bret Lobben, percussion.

The music on the CD is available as sheet music. The recording is available for purchase online. It may also be listened to in it's entirety at CubeTunes.com.

I heard it on NPR!

Starting in 2002, snippets from at least 4 tunes from Kind of Intrinsic could be heard in-between story segments on National Public Radio's news show All Things Considered. Since then, they have been played again several times. For more information, click here.

The second CD

2003 saw the release of the CD Misplaced Appliances by the Things Quartet in conjunction with Favorite Nose Productions. This group was comprised of a subgroup from the musicians that played on Kind of Intrinsic: Rafe Lyford, trombone; Max Wendt, saxophones; Matt Netter, upright bass; Tom Lewis, upright bass; and Jim Guckenberg, drums. Again, all of the music on the CD are original instrumental jazz tunes, but this time by both Rafe and Max.

Rafe's tunes are available as sheet music. The recording is available for purchase online. It may also be listened to in it's entirety at CubeTunes.com.

Explorations in Electronica

In 2005, Rafe released a CD called Evil Twin Cometh. Produced entirely in Rafe's home project studio by himself, it is comprised of all original electronica music. The looping, repetitious nature of the music make it well suited for background and soundtrack music.

The recording is available for purchase online. It may also be listened to in it's entirety at CubeTunes.com.

CubeTunes.com

Also in 2005, Flying Cube Productions launched it's own online radio station called CubeTunes.com. It allows you to stream to your computer and listen to all of the music mentioned here via Windows Media player.

CubeTunes.com will also serve as the spot to hear any new music that Rafe creates.

Shameless self-promotion

All of Rafe's music is available for commercial licensing in soundtracks, advertisements, etc. Contact Us for more information.

Rafe also has 10 years of experience working as a webmaster, web developer, and web designer. For more information, please visit Rafe's resume.

For more biographical info about Rafe, click here.

The future...

Although Flying Cube Productions is focused primarily on the creative output of Rafe Lyford for the immediate future, there is the potential to include the works of other independent, creative musicians further down the road. Please feel free to Contact Us with ideas.

Thank-you for your visit.