Experiment with extremely close-mic'd clarinet.

Clarinet. Small room, and so less reverberant than previous pieces in the series, but still reverberant. Recorded for Sound In, August 11-12, 2017

Very close-mic'd clarinet played without exciting the reed, simply breath sounds and some whistling and gurgling. Recorded for Sound In, August 11-12, 2017

Third in a continuing series. Recorded in an underground parking garage. Trombone bell with flexible hose and flanged pipe, creating a kind of natural trumpet.

Second in a continuing series. Recorded in an underground parking garage. Trombone.

Mandolin with all sorts of effects.

A song written over thirty years ago, finally seeing the light of day. Pretty rough rendition, but I was in a hurry.

A silly little song, made up for Sound In, July 20-22, 2017. Played on a not-very-well bowl-back mandolin.

Tenor sax. Main riff from a piece by The Keith Tippett Group called Green and Orange Night Park on their album Dedicated to You But You Weren't Listening. It was later expanded to become the last part of a mammoth work entitled Septober Energy…

Tenor sax.

Sound of a found galvanized steel bucket.

Modifications of fireworks sounds. For Sound In, July 2nd, 2017.

Canada Day fireworks July 1st, 2017, Stan Wadlow Park, East York, Ontario.

Another piece using the Zoom/EHX feedback combination. Recorded for the Fourth of July 2017 edition of Improv Friday.

No-input system with Zoom RFX-300 and EHX Stereo Memory Man. Created for Sound In, 22-24/06/2017

No-input system with Zoom RFX-300 and EHX Stereo Memory Man. Created for Sound In, 22-24/06/2017

Antique silver-plate trombone. Recorded for Sound In, June 22-24, 2017

Bell section of antique silver-plate trombone with flexible hose and improvised mouthpiece. Recorded for Sound In, June 22-24, 2017

Yamaha F-310 acoustic guitar with a broken neck, being held together by a carpenter's clamp placed just above the first fret. Recorded for the June 16-17, 2017 edition of Improv Friday.

Toy piano "prepared" by placing a metal sheet on the sounding rods. For "Improv Friday" June 1-3, 2017