2 Cute 4 U
It’s cute, it’s happy. It’s very nice. You should use it. This cue can be customized to fit your project.
Adventure In Gameland
A wild roller coaster ride in Gameland. Don’t swallow your gum! This cue can be customized to suit your needs.
Baby Blessing
Licensing prices depend on the size and scope of your project.
Contact Max to license this cue, or to hire him for custom composing.
From the album, Sacred Journeys.
Bird March
Orchestral, stately and slightly clunky procession. Think penguins. This cue can be customized to fit your project.
Boink Pank
Cute and kooky video game music. Wear your fun hat. This cue can be customized to fit your project.
Brain Storm
Marimba and various mystery sounds for an underscore about geniuses at work, solving problems, as they do. This cue can be customized to fit your project.
Building Tension
Something’s about to happen, and I’m not sure I want to know what it is. Oh. I guess it’s OK. Whew. This cue can be customized to fit your project.
Carriage Ride
String orchestra, Masterpiece Theatre style. This cue can be customized to fit your project.
Celesta Fancy
Fanciful, enchanted, a bit sentimental. This cue can be customized to fit your project.
Cute Happy
It’s cute, it’s happy, and it’s sweet. You should use it. This cue can be customized to fit your project.
Cyborg Programmers
Orchestral, with heavy percussion, voices. Combat theme, with sci fi effects. This cue can be customized to fit your project.
Dream Messages
Background music for guided meditation, guided imagery, peaceful film and video projects.
Extended play: 4:13 long.
From the album, Sacred Journeys.
EP Calm & Happy
Electric piano (Fender Rhodes) film music cue. Rhythmical and calm for relaxed and upbeat scenes. This cue can be customized to fit your project.
EP Sad & Slow
Sad, slow electric piano (Fender Rhodes) film music cue for quiet, sad scenes. This cue can be customized to fit your project.
Felty Flutey
Positive, light action, and good vibes, without being too too good. This cue can be customized to fit your project.
First Day Out
3:02. Vocal song. Clarinet, band, guitar. Won a NMMA award for Best Children’s song, 2023. Tells a story.
From the album, Hotcakes.
Flying Not Falling
3:41. Cello, piano, fretless bass, percussion, flute, bells, mallets, and what have you. So much fun, this one! Happy, joyful, cheerful, bouncy, light, good for you. Gets a little poignant near the end, then back to the happy ending.
From the album, Flying Not Falling,
Frank & Mandy
4:14. Piano, flute, oboe, cello fretless bass, percussion. Lilting, dancing, uplifting, swirling, twirling. This album by all rights should have gotten the Grammy, but that’s a long story.
From the album, Flying Not Falling,
From A Monastery Garden
Background music for guided meditation, guided imagery, peaceful film and video projects.
Extended play: 16:46 long.
From the album, Healing Journey.
Full Circle Waltz
5:04 long. Orchestral. Graceful, dreamy, warm, uplifting and inspiring.
From the album, Touch The Sky.
General Discomfort
A feeling that something’s not quite right. Underscore for worry. This cue can be customized to fit your project.
Git ‘Er Done
Something’s happening, and it’s happening more and more! This cue can be customized to fit your project.
Helium
4:32. Flute, soprano sax, synths, piano, cello, fretless bass, drum kit, percussion, panpipes. Bubbly! Fun, dancey. Light as…
From the album, Flying Not Falling,
Her Shoelace, My Heart
4:30 long. Piano, soprano sax, cello, band. Whimsical, and funky, a bit New Orleans. Alternates between sweet and nostalgic, and sassy and upbeat.
From the album, Hondo Blaze.
Hondo Blaze
3:32 long. Piano, harmonica (Howard Levy!), nylon string guitar, sax, strings, voices, and band. Dark chocolate. Highly energetic, and deeply flavorful.
From the album, Hondo Blaze.
Ice Fantasy
A premium orchestral piece. A dark waltz. Intrigue, passion, chilly undertones. This cue can be customized to fit your project.
Lake Shrine
8:29. Synths, violin, electric piano, other pianos, percussion. Dreamy, but not sleepy. A journey.
From the album, Flying Not Falling,
Languid Rhodes
Soft electric piano background music – film score cue for lazy, dreamy, pensive scenes. This cue can be customized to fit your project.
Laredo
4:12 Long. Piano and cello, string quartet. Nostalgic, wistful, romantic, heartfelt, and sweet. Hanky music, if you will.
From the album, Path of the Heart.
Let’s Talk
5:06. Piano, bass, drum kit, flute, soprano sax, marimba, guitar, cello. Sweet, light, pretty, fun, and a little nostalgic.
From the album, Flying Not Falling,
Living In A Box
Vocal song. “I’m living in a box with a hole in the top. My soul at the bottom and oh, I forgotabout the hole in the top, can’t forget to stop stopping up the hole.”
From the album, Flight Plans.
Meanwhile In The Backseat
4:47. The windows are all fogged. That big black car’s a rockin’. Better not get too close. Severe funk/rock in progress. Dirty, nasty slide guitar. Better slide on down.
From the album, Tiptoes.
Mounting Process
A tidy and engaging string piece, suggesting intriguing development. Adds a touch of class to your otherwise uninspired project. Just kidding! Your project is fine. It just needs a little string support. This will do nicely. Can be adjusted to fit.
Mounting Tension
Strings & percussion. Something stressful is happening. What that is is your business – I just write the music. This cue can be customized to fit your project.
Music From A Healing Well
Background music for guided meditation, guided imagery, peaceful film and video projects. Extended play: 20:51 long.
From the album, Healing Journey.
Mysterious Fairies
These fairies may be up to no good, but they’re fairies, so they’re still cute, right? This cue can be customized to fit your project.
Mystery Girl
What’s she up to? Is she a spy? On a mission? She’s trouble, that’s for damn sure. This cue can be customized to fit your project.
Nagging Suspicion
Something bothering you? This will make it worse. This cue can be customized to fit your project.
New Girlfriend
4:04. Cello, piano, bells, flute, bass, pretty things. Whimsical, a little kooky. Light, fun, full of charm.
From the album, Flying Not Falling,
Noble Battle
Strings, percussion, and some horns toward the end. An evolving, serious – but not too serious – situation. With a triumphant win at the end, if you care to stay. This cue can be customized to fit your project.
Office Tension
The tension gets to you, eventually. Piano, strings, and, and, and I just can’t. This cue can be customized to fit your project.
Path Of The Heart
6:31 long. Graceful, majestic, romantic, and healing. Piano, electric piano, flute, oboe, bass, strings and very light percussion. Great for anything ceremonial (wedding scenes) or romantic, especially with a spiritual or higher dimension. A definite heartstring puller!
From the album, Path of the Heart.
Promising Development
Something’s happening, or is about to happen, any moment. And it looks like it could be a very good thing. This cue can be customized to fit your project.
Quiet Tension
Strings and soft piano. Free quiet, tense music film cue with a single note ostinato. Ideal for tense and sad scenes. This cue can be customized to fit your project.
Rail Runner
3:38. Saxes on the railroad! Featuring harmonica by the one and only Howard Levy. Rockin’ along the tracks.
From the album, Gratitunes.
Rain Driver
4:30. Serious intrigue! And a rare and beautiful piece of music. Cello and soprano duke it out once again, this time in the rain. Who wins? We all do, with a snappy tune like Rain Driver!
From the album, Gratitunes.
Recovery
6:26 long. Hypnotic! Electric piano, voice pads, flute, oboe. An evolving, slow progression. Very sweet and soft. Beautiful performances on the woodwinds, especially. A very special piece of music that will put your viewers/listeners in a trance.
From the album, Path of the Heart.
Ridin’ High
3:22 long. Band, Celtic whistles, pan pipes, strings, harmonica (Howard Levy!), piano, nylon string guitar. Joyous, bouncy, and happy-making. Western tinged theme.
From the album, Hondo Blaze.
Sad Rhodes Roller
Easy rolling, sad electric piano (Fender Rhodes) background music, or film cue for sad, reflective, or melancholy scenes. This cue can be customized to fit your project.
Sci Fido 2
Don’t answer the door! Scary, tense cue for horror, sci fi, suspense. Background music for film and video. This cue can be customized to fit your project.
Spring Intro
Orchestral introductory cue with ceremony, majesty, and some off kilter elements of foreboding. Background music for film. This cue can be customized to fit your project.
Spring Wand
16 Seconds. Magical orchestral music background for fantasy, animation. Music for film from MaxHighsteinMusic.com. This cue can be customized to fit your project.
Spring War Part 1
Combat cue, orchestral with heavy percussion. Background music for your project, whatever it may be. Jackpot! This cue can be customized to fit your project.
Spring War Part 2
Orchestral and heavy percussion action cue with light touches, appropriate for animation. Background music for animation, film, TV, video, media, games. This cue can be customized to fit your project.
String Building
Tension, increasing, with a button on the end. String magic. This cue can be customized to fit your project.
The Bussman’s Triumph
3:02. Cute, tidy, catchy and wistful. Soprano sax soft and warm. Celtic flute, trumpet, piano, band. Such a sweet tune, like a happy march around the square.
From the album, Gratitunes.
The Elephant’s Dream
2:50 long. Sweet and charming. Piano, electric piano, flute, french horn.
From the album, Stars.
The Healer’s Touch Part 1
1:20 long. Rippling piano, electric piano, shakuhachi. Water. Meditative & mystical.
From the album, Stars.
The Healer’s Touch Part 2
3:18 long. Rippling piano, cello, shakuhachi. Mystical and meditative.
From the album, Stars.
The Weaver’s Tale
3:53. A masterful, “Masterpiece Theatre” sort of composition. Dark, winding intrigue in 3/4 time. Gorgeous cello, sax, and piano banding together to save the world.
From the album, Tiptoes.
Unhappy Process
Piano, cello, percussion, pads. Dark, sad dirge. Underscore music for video, film, media, etc. This cue can be customized to fit your project.