Breaking Light live at Arts Goggle 2011
2 tracks by Breaking Light
live at Landers Machine Shop for Arts Goggle in Fort Worth 5/14/11
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Pareidolia (2009)
15 tracks by Breaking Light
A collection of tracks from the LUCID and Shadows Fall eps, now a cd that I give away/sell at gigs.
Pareidolia is a psychological phenomenon involving a vague and random stimulus (often an image or sound) being perceived as significant.
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05-Forest of Incandescent Bliss (for Cordwainer Smith)
Recorded for the 2009 RPM Challenge.
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Track: 05-Forest of Incandescent Bliss (for Cordwainer Smith)
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Album: LUCID
Blue Hour
My evening challenge: compose and record a piece in an evening. Song titles will reflect the time of day when the day's light slips into the darkness of night.
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Pileus (remix)
Another one recorded "live on the fly", so the sound quality isn't great. Also some tonal support from SonicMood program.
Pileus is a cap-like structure, like on a cloud or mushroom.
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The Gloaming
My evening challenge: compose and record a piece in an evening. I stitched together a couple of demos and added a virtual Harry Partch instrument.
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Track: The Gloaming
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Breaking Light-LUCID (2009 RPM Challenge) (2009)
10 tracks by Breaking Light
Recorded during the first week of February 2009 for the RPM Challenge. Where it all started for BL!
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05-Forest of Incandescent Bliss (for Cordwainer Smith)
Recorded for the 2009 RPM Challenge.
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Track: 05-Forest of Incandescent Bliss (for Cordwainer Smith)
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Album: LUCID
Breaking Light - Proto-Sapien (2010)
12 tracks by Breaking Light
The latest batch.
Spirit and thought conscience in sonic form.
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Quiet Sun
Our sun is in a long, cool, quiet period right now. But average ocean temps are the highest ever, and polar ice and glaciers are melting at an alarming rate. Something is going on here.
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Come Play
If your wondering:
Squier Telecaster, slide, ebow, Line 6 DL4, Boss RC20XL, Ibanez DE7 delay/echo, Boss OC-3 Suoer Octave pedal.
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Long After Midnight
Timestretched acoustic guitar, cicadas.
A sonic tribute to Ray Bradbury, who turns 90 this Sunday.
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Artist: Breaking Light
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Fire in the Forest
Another ebow/loop study.
Some drone. Accompanying video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J...
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Track: Demonax
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Hymn (live at Other Texas Music 4-30-10)
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Track: Hymn (live at Other Texas Music 4-30-10)
Artist: Breaking Light
Album: Proto-Sapien
Live Light Dec. 2010
3 tracks by Breaking Light
thanks for being weird and listening
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Breaking Light (and friends)-PHASES (live) RPM2011
7 tracks by Breaking Light
Myself, Michelangelo and Ross gathered at a local coffeeshop on Feb. 19 to improvise for two hours. The best bits are here, an album for the RPM Challenge.
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phase 0
A live improvised recording for the RPM Challenge 2011
recorded 2/19/11 at Dunn Bros. Coffee in Keller, Tx.
Kavin.: guitar, loops
Michelangelo: buzz guitar
Ross Reitzammer: flute
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Artist: Breaking Light (and friends)
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phase 1
A live improvised recording for the RPM Challenge 2011
recorded 2/19/11 at Dunn Bros. Coffee in Keller, Tx.
Michelangelo: didjeridu
Kavin.: guitar, loops
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phase 2
A live improvised recording for the RPM Challenge 2011
recorded 2/19/11 at Dunn Bros. Coffee in Keller, Tx.
Kavin.: guitars, loops
Michelangelo: buzz guitar
Ross Reitzammer: flute
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phase 3
A live improvised recording for the RPM Challenge 2011
recorded 2/19/11 at Dunn Bros. Coffee in Keller, Tx.
Mick was playing a teapot sized steel drum thingie (which was actually plastic) with... (more)
Track: phase 3
Artist: Breaking Light (and friends)
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phase 4
A live improvised recording for the RPM Challenge 2011
recorded 2/19/11 at Dunn Bros. Coffee in Keller, Tx.
I was looping Mick's wooden flute and I diddled some delayed guitar.
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phase 6
A live improvised recording for the RPM Challenge 2011
recorded 2/19/11 at Dunn Bros. Coffee in Keller, Tx.
Kavin:guitar, loops and iPod Touch
Michelangelo:guitar,didjeridoo,wood flute... (more)
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Track: phase 6
Artist: Breaking Light (and friends)
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Breaking Light > Live at Witch's Night Out (2009)
5 tracks by Breaking Light
WNO at First Jefferson Unitarian Universalist Church in Fort Worth Oct. 24,2009.
My first opportunity to do BL in a large room. I think I was having a better time than the audience, note the complete lack of applause.
tech: recorded with Edirol R09 to wav, then to Logic, up volume, some compression, add Church space setting.
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Breaking Light-Live in the Deep Field (RPM Challenge) (2010)
5 tracks by Breaking Light
Recorded live at a coffee shop in Fort Worth Feb. 26, 2010 for the RPM Challenge. Thanks to Ross Reitzammer for playing flute. If you can hang with this for the entirety, you deserve a big cookie.
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flute loop
This is from the live recording last night, which will comprise my submission for the RPM Challenge.
Ross Reitzammer, flute
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Album: Live in the Deep Field (RPM CHallenge 2010)
Breaking Light - appstract
7 tracks by various alonetone artists
Little sound experiments with music apps on my iPod Touch.
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Merimbar
Another mini-suite, of sorts.
Diamond marimba, mazda marimba, bowed gourd
iPod apps: NLog synth, Bebot
Extremely altered guitar
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Balloom
This is sort of a demo I did with Bloom, a regenerative music app designed by Brian Eno and Peter Chilvers. As I was playing it I stepped through all 12 "moods" for a minute each.
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Live Light 2010 (2010)
14 tracks by Breaking Light
excerpts from live performances.
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DB0129101 (Blue Hour)
live @ Dunn Bros. in Keller, Tx. 1/29/10
Took me awhile to get my legs here, as evidenced by the sloppy playing. The bulk of this is the tune "Blue Hour".
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BC031010 Intro Edit
The first 6 min. of the set from Backbeat Cafe last night. My favorite part at a manageable listening length.
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OTM43010 (edit w/Hymn)
An edit from the Other Texas Music show, for brevity. Joined the ebow improv intro with the closing "Hymn".
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Track: OTM43010 (edit w/Hymn)
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Live Light 2009
9 tracks by Breaking Light
A collection of excerpts of live gig recordings. Recorded on an Edirol (Roland) R-09
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1919/1219092 (live)
Opened for Hentai Improvising Orchestra at 1919 Hemphill in Fort Worth. A 26 minute piece, I had to edit it down to this because of some nasty noise spikes on the louder bits. So whats left is a very sleepy piece.
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GAC1112109 (Harmonic loop+flute)
This is the last of the live stuff for awhile.
Ross Reitzammer on flute.
Oh by the way, I have blogspot presence now:
http://guitarlooper.blogspot.com
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Track: GAC1112109 (Harmonic loop+flute)
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Breaking Light live @ the 806
3 tracks by Breaking Light
Live at the 806 in Amarillo, Tx
July 10, 2010
33:37
8060710101 (Skeptimystic/Blue Hour)
A 1700 mile road trip culminated in a gig in Amarillo at the 806.
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Track: 8060710101 (Skeptimystic/Blue Hour)
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improvFriday posts 2010
29 tracks by various alonetone artists
For the past few weeks I've been participating in the weekly event at the improvFriday site. Here are those tunes, both as Breaking Light and my Coelocanth alias.
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Long After Midnight
Timestretched acoustic guitar, cicadas.
A sonic tribute to Ray Bradbury, who turns 90 this Sunday.
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Track: Long After Midnight
Artist: Breaking Light
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Come Play
If your wondering:
Squier Telecaster, slide, ebow, Line 6 DL4, Boss RC20XL, Ibanez DE7 delay/echo, Boss OC-3 Suoer Octave pedal.
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Track: Come Play
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Quartered
An experiment with quarter tone tuning.
I tuned my guitar: low E (normal tuning)
A (quarter step up)
D (normal tuning)
G (quarter step down)
B (normal tuning)
high E (tuned D then quarter step down)
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Track: Quartered
Artist: Coelocanth
Album: ImprovFriday August 7 2010
Trouble in Hamtramck
My (first?) submission for this week's improvFriday.
bleepBox! app, stylophone and police scanner.
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Track: Trouble in Hamtramck
Artist: Coelocanth
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neopolitalitarianism w/ breaking light
The breaking light sample is the song 8060710103 up tempoed from a length of about 10 minutes, to a length of 2.5 minutes, then bass expanded and vocoded. Then I added my instrumentation.
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Track: neopolitalitarianism w/ breaking light
Artist: chimps 8 my ears w/ breaking light on full spectrum lead guitar
Album: wrong number
Statesboro
samples from Hentai Improvising Orchestra, David Bromberg, Peter Thörn.
Paulstretch, cassette recorder
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Track: Statesboro
Artist: Kavin/Hentai Improvising Orchestra/Peter Thorn
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Once Upon a Witch's Night
Some live snippets from the Witch's Night Out gig last w/e, mixed with some field recordings from a pre-Halloween party at Landers Machine Shop. Apparently I was too loud for some of the Wiccans. Hope yawl have a spooky Hallows eve.
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Track: Once Upon a Witch's Night
Artist: Breaking Light
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PT's Groove (Peter Thoegersen-drums)
took Peter Thoegersen's great 10/8 drum improv (from improvFriday) and edited down, then jammed with that.
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Track: PT's Groove (Peter Thoegersen-drums)
Artist: Kavin.
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Riding Rails
an improv with the ol pedal steel, with loads of fx. Spent a lot of time trying to get the noise off this track, but had limited success.
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Track: Riding Rails
Artist: Breaking Light
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Vortex/Jumbie
a field recording/sound collage from last Saturday at the Fort Worth MOMA. Sounds inside the Serra sculpture Vortex, and the African percussion/dance ensemble Jumbie.
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Reformed Fuzz (Norm+Underwood)
A mash up of pieces of Norm's "Reformation" and Underwood's "Fuzzmachine" tracks, heavily filtered and effected.
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Track: Reformed Fuzz (Norm+Underwood)
Artist: Coelocanth
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Breaking Light live @ Doc's Records "3 Dimes"
2 tracks by Breaking Light
10/10/10
photo by Kat Shimamoto
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ImprovFriday posts 2011
10 tracks by various alonetone artists
My submissions to the weekly improvFriday event.
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Don't Fear the Forest
Two ambient guitar tracks recorded independently and stick together. I broke my rule of not using distortion on a BL piece, for the first time, believe it or no.
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Track: Don't Fear the Forest
Artist: Breaking Light
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tread softly on this green earth
12 string improv experiment with stereo mic setup and dual capos to get a Csus open tuning.
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Track: tread softly on this green earth
Artist: Kavin.
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Wasp and Pear (remix)
A remix of a performance by laptop/guitar duo Wasp and Pear. Remixed with iPod touch and Filtatron app.
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Track: Wasp and Pear (remix)
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DB01151102
Here's a "live" thing, if it can be called that, if one performs in a public place and there's no audience, can you call it "live"...?
If you'd like to hear the rest of the set, go here:
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Track: DB01151102
Artist: Breaking Light
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Bright Tales from a Luminous Dendrite-Breaking Light
6 tracks by Breaking Light
A few live things, and some stuff generated thru improvFriday. And a Steve Layton mash from IF!
43:59
Future Martyr on Hypersonic Waves
thanks, Dali.
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Track: Future Martyr on Hypersonic Waves
Artist: Breaking Light
Album: tales from a luminous dendrite
Travel Is Returning
Another edit from the live megatrack...
http://soundcloud.com/breaking-l...
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Track: Travel Is Returning
Artist: Breaking Light
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Passin' Thru
Two tracks:
1 playing djembe with left hand, acoustic gtr ebow drone with right hand
2 electric gtr w/reverse delay
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Track: Passin' Thru
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Driving While the City Sleeps (feat. Kavin Allenson, Paul Muller, Roger Sundström x 2)
An improvFriday mix by Steve Layton.
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Track: Driving While the City Sleeps (feat. Kavin Allenson, Paul Muller, Roger Sundström x 2)
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Album: tales from a luminous dendrite
HPT081411 (Edit)
A sample from last night at the Hip Pocket. If you want to hear the entire highlights edit track (it was too big for alonetone), go here:
http://soundcloud.com/breaking-l...
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Track: HPT081411 (Edit)
Artist: Breaking Light
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Dead Man lyin' by the side of the road
4 tracks by Breaking Light
My tribute to the great film Dead Man, but mainly it's soundtrack which was done by Neil Young improvising on guitar. So I tried a similar sound and approach. I normally eschew distortion, but it was necessary here.
21:36
Machine
I'll tell you one thing for sure... I wouldn't trust no words written down on no piece of paper, especially from no Dickinson out in the town of Machine... you're just as likely to find your own grave.
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Track: Machine
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The Luck Of William Blake
I'll tell you one thing: if that there Blake fella keeps on shootin' marshals, I might end up liking the bastard!
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Track: The Luck Of William Blake
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Breaking Light-Adjacent Lines
6 tracks by Breaking Light
Some experiments, remixes, rehearsals and live stuff. As always.
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BL live @ Avant Garden
3 tracks by Breaking Light
Played a show in Houston Tx on 12/28/11 to a very quiet, appreciative audience. These are edits of most of the performance.
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AG1228113 (live)
live at Avant Garden in Houston, Tx. 12/28/11
This edit contains the motifs Up the Chupacabra and Hymn.
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Track: AG1228113 (live)
Artist: Breaking Light
Album: Live @ Avant Garden,Houston,Tx. 12/28/11
