Cheeky chat a while back.

White Light was written in June along with 10 other "Off the cuff" tunes. Just before the great flood in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Our house was flooded and slowly being rebuilt. This is 4th of the 10 to be recorded.

This was another fun one for me, especially doing the backing vocals. The song is a bit haphazard, structurally speaking, and my performance has some technical issues, but it was just fun to play. The riff came to me early one, but kept elluding…

I have a thing for flutes. I guess this is where it all started.

I have a thing for flutes. I guess this is where it all started.

I used to record all voicemails I got on my landline for posterity, this is one of the less intelligible ones.

Here I attempt to articulate a few distinct feelings of the home, or the affect of cultivating one's own space, or not. Instrumentation: house keys, pots and pans, long bamboo flute, synth, drum programming, voice(s), and didgeridoo (a real…

experimenting with stuff.

This is an instrumental piece I wrote a couple days after my dad was involved in a horrible accident that resulted in partial amputation of his left arm. He's okay now, but it was a tough time for our family. It appears on the J TEMP 13 album…