Erik Spangler

Circulator

This beat was made while teaching my Sound I summer class about making sample-based beats in Reason software. It is named after the new Circulator energy-efficient free bus in Baltimore. My main non-drum samples... (more)

FOURdirections (jason.sloan & Dubble8)

Jason Sloan and I recorded this track in March 2010 as an improvisation in preparation for our performances on The Vigil all-night music festival at MICA. Jason describes the session... (more)

Music For Returning

For a walk in midtown Baltimore.

Scorpio Beat

Beat made for the Scorpio movement of "Zodiacrobatic", remixing "Tierkreis" by Karlheinz Stockhausen. This particular track is made for a mashup of Stockhausen's melody with the song "Scorpion" by the Budos... (more)

Cancer (backing track)

Electronic backing track I created for the Cancer movement of "Zodiacrobatic", remixing "Tierkreis" by Karlheinz Stockhausen.

Leo (live)

Live performance from "Zodiacrobatic", Hybrid Groove Project's remix of "Tierkreis" (Zodiac) by Karlheinz Stockhausen. Brian Sacawa and I performed this, our version of Leo, on our Mobtown Modern series in May... (more)

pastlife laptops (accompaniment track)

"pastlife laptops and attic instruments" is a composition from 2004 that I wrote to perform with saxophonist Brian Sacawa. This is the pre-recorded electronic part that accompanies... (more)

Bells of Penn Station

A skipping CD of children's music, an old accordion with sticky keys, some subterranean drums and synth bass, a departing train. Hoping to achieve some kind of glitchy transcendence through the broken fragments.

Z-Land Beat 1

This is one of several beat tracks for my new piece "Z-Land" for string orchestra, amplified string quartet, and DJ. The full piece will be performed by the Zeeland High School Orchestra (from Zeeland, MI... (more)

Maknongan Remix_10_4

For the upcoming Mobtown Modern show "Low Art" next Wednesday, Brian Sacawa will perform (among other pieces in the jumbo saxophone repertoire) "Maknongan" by Giacinto Scelsi (performed on bari sax... (more)

Pre-Dawn Artscape/Ghost Town

Memories of walking a coonhound in the small hours around the empty structures of Baltimore's Artscape festival before dawn- silent ferris wheel standing behind the rows of booths, vacant carnival... (more)

Farther Along

Rendition of the old spiritual, with melodica accompaniment.

FaxBeat

A beat I created for "Die Faxmachine", a collaboration with composers Du Yun and Ken Ueno, who faxed in (to a live performance) a composition for flute, clarinet, alto saxophone, and electronics, interpreted on... (more)

Center: Peace and War, Force and Order

Interactive audio walking tour, a collaboration with artist Kianga Ford.

The Story of This Place is a series of site-specific narratives that offer a portable audio soundtrack... (more)

Harborplace Boombox Circle

A field recording of multiple boomboxes playing doctored field recordings of Baltimore's Inner Harbor, played back at the Inner Harbor.

Loops Podcast (for The Mobcast)

This program was created for "The Mobcast", podcast of Mobtown Modern, as an introduction to the theme of our third season opening concert, "Loopy", at the Metro Gallery in Baltimore, 9/16, 8 pm.

Capricorn Instrumental

Preview of "Capricorn" (minus parts to be performed live) from Hybrid Groove Project's ZODIACROBATIC, an arrangement of Karlheinz Stockhausen's "Tierkreis", 12 melodies of the Zodiac. To be premiered... (more)

Pierrot Redux 2

One in a series of trip hop beats that I am making from samples that I recorded with an ensemble in January, of Schoenberg's "Pierrot Lunaire". Although we never got to play our "Pierrot Redux" in live... (more)

Baltimore Celebrates Obama Win

Field recording of spontaneous celebration in the streets of Baltimore after Obama wins election. Nov. 5, between 12:30 - 1:30 AM.

Why (w/ The Jah Jah Drummers)

While I was a grad student in the Boston area, I performed regularly with an Afro-Caribbean drumming group called the Jah Jah Drummers. It was during this time that I first began making beats... (more)

Frank Profitt Banjer

From my first album of beats, "Tompkins Count Organic", this song samples the banjo and voice of Frank Profitt, from an old Folkways recording. Also sampled is a composition of mine for violin, played by Rolf Schulte.

Rainy

A track created for a character called Rainy, on the North walk (entitled "Life Is Monumental") of "Charm City Remix", a site-specific narrative by Kianga Ford.

High Lonesome: 1st driving scene

I recorded this short piece on guitar for my friend Andy Hulse's 2003 film "High Lonesome". This part is for a driving scene with no dialogue. Early morning in a southwestern Texas landscape.

How can I choose to sleep

I recorded this short solo vocal with a minidisc recorder while up in a tree. This is a one-take, one-track recording (with lots of delay added, to be sure). The bird you hear was actually accompanying... (more)

Clarinet Sonnet

Performed by my wife, Marie Rinkoski, on clarinet. Recorded in the woods around Ithaca NY, and layered with some scratchy vinyl pops. This clarinet melody is the introduction to a song I wrote on one of Pablo Neruda's Sonnets.

Inner Circle: Chorale

A meditative space for guitar, harp, vibraphone, english horn, french horn, viola, cello, and double bass, from my large work "Mandala of the Four Directions" (2004).

Kawthar (Vance Quartet)

This piece was written for the Vance Quartet, a student clarinet quartet at Oberlin in 2002. My wife is one of the 2 bass clarinetists heard on this recording-- we'd known each other for a few months... (more)

Through Water's Eyes (postlude)

In the summer of 2001, I took a road trip across the United States with two friends on some grant money from my grad school program. Our mission was to make a multimedia art documentary about... (more)

Scattered Glass

"putting new dope twists on licks that Philip Glass wrote"

-Hybrid Groove Project, "HGP Anthem"

HGP Anthem (instrumental)

HGP Anthem

This song made a little splash in the New Music blogosphere back in July 2008. With possibly the first diss rap directed at modern chamber music groups, Hybrid Groove Project (that's DJ Dubble8 and new music... (more)

Don't Go Away (feat. Sewella Barnes)

This is another song that came out of my year teaching at MATHS Charter School in the Baltimore City Public School System. Sewella Barnes was one of my students who would come after school... (more)

Four Mile Cove (youth collaboration 3)

This piece grew out of a project in my digital music class at Oasis Charter Middle School (Cape Coral, FL) back in Fall 2006. I recorded some environmental sounds at night in the Four... (more)

Bunny's Noisy Book (youth collaboration 2)

This is another track resulting from a project in my digital music class at Oasis Charter Middle School (Spring 2007). Using a common pool of objects, my newborn daughter's baby... (more)

I Can Feel It (feat. Mark Lemon)

From my past year as a music teacher in the Baltimore City Public School System, this production features one of my best students from MATHS Charter School, Mr. Mark Lemon, doing his thing over my beat "baltimore christmas 07".

Old Turtle story (youth collaboration 1)

One in a series of collaborations that I did with students in my digital music class, back when I was teaching middle school. These are 7th and 8th graders at Oasis Charter Middle... (more)

Selection from OY (feat. Du Yun, SKIP)

Check out the full song on the album "What They Never Told You" by S.K.I.P., or Du Yun's version of the song (also built on my beat, but with added live players) "Stay", on her MySpace... (more)

Old Turtle 3

The third section in a musical score to accompany the children's book "Old Turtle".

Guzheng 1

A short beat interlude built on Chinese guzheng riff by Du Yun.

chalk outlines jazz1

Credits music for "Chalk Outlines", a film by Joe Zohar, Moving Box Studios.

Aurorabeat 1_sample

A sample from the "Aurorabeat" track off my "Tompkins County Organic" album.

selfportrait with nancarrow

A cut-up of Conlon Nancarrow player piano, blended with saxophone by Brian Sacawa, layered with beats.

Lee County Estampie

Beat created for vocal collaborator Du Yun, mixed with a slowed-down Medieval recorder estampie. Created while dwelling in the suburban wilds of Cape Coral, Lee County, FL.

bali musicbox

mixing balinese gamelan with fisher price music box record player.

Dubble8 Club

In honor of my first year as a resident of Baltimore, here is my first track in the style of Baltimore Club (local dance music genre, around for the past 15 years, but little known outside the 410 area code... (more)

kashmiri

greenspring ave

Anniversary

baltimore christmas 07

Every Time - remix 1

Credit Sequence

Music for the credits of a film called "High Lonesome" by Andrew Hulse. I originally wrote this for guitar, viola, and double bass. In this new version, the lead melody is played by my wife on clarinet.

Pastlife Laptops and Attic Instruments

M9_remix_4

Midnight Turning

Glacier, Stone, Lake

Ithaca College Percussion Ensemble with Dr. Spangler on turntables, December 2005. Scratches with Morton Subotnick's "Silver Apples of the Moon" and John Cage vinyl.

Composition inspired by the glacier formation of the Finger Lakes of NY.

Mount Vernon Square 3

Wax cylinder recordings of waltzes chopped up and rearranged with saxophone improvisation by Brian Sacawa for Charm City Remix, an interactive audio walking tour of Baltimore by artist Kianga Ford.