Environment sounds while visiting Ithaca NY. Sources Wegmans supermarket ambience and running on a local road. Improv iOS midi piano added in mix. For Sound In Event.

I improvised about an hour of contiguous music this afternoon for a backdrop of an upcoming workshop by a dance friend. This is an edit from it for this weekend's Sound-In Event.

This started with thinking/hearing in my head of Paul Simon's American Tune and realizing that it's borrowed musically from Bach's melody and later adapted to the hymn O Sacred Head Now Wounded. All thoughts played and manipulated live using…read more

A very still improv of the standard Stella By Starlight. Using Pure Data as a live and post production at same time platform. I improvised the melody as I wanted then imported it in 3 layers 10 sec each, those 3 layers loop and I played live…read more

I haven't done anything in Pure Data in several weeks and today amidst the Thanksgiving festivities, started playing with a foundation for a piece. I resurrected an acoustic guitar sample I had recorded in a reworking several months ago for a…read more

A process lap steel memory for the departed Gahan Wilson, amazing illustrator of our time with a twist to the dark.

I've loved this traditional mystical tune for a long time. I heard UK based guitarist David Cooper Orton do a version of it with loops several years ago at Rick Walker's Y2K festival and it's hung with me ever since. I'm going to play it in…read more

Lose acoustic blues piece inspired by Brendan Landis bringing to light a new look at Gymopedia by Erik Satie.

Lap steel, iOS audio efx and loop.

Using old EHX looper and iOS efx Space. Probably influences of being in Death Valley recently.

Chris Vaisvil published a beautiful soundscape of a band recording from his past. I was inspired by and initially was thinking something more spacial than this but had some interruptions and when I sat down with the lap steel this came out.

a long overdue jam with neighbor Chris done early morning this week. He's on drums and bass guitar and I'm on acoustic 12. Was cool beginning.

Edit from a 20 min acoustic improv. Bit of a nod to John Fahey. Folk/blues. Created for Sound-In Event Sept 13-14, 2019

Continuing journey of late getting reacquainted with my acoustic guitar past in a new direction more improvised and spontaneous than I used to do and more akin to some of the acoustic work of recent years with Chinapainting. I'm also rediscovering…read more

Acoustic 12-string. Created for Sound-In Event Aug 23-24, 2019

An acoustic guitar improv in a single setting earlier this week with the model of self-looping and nod to Crafti-ism. I made 3 edits between my rhythmic changes to better tie it all together. Created for Sound-In New Music Event Aug 15-17, 2019.

For the Aug 8-10 Sound-In Event with thoughts of Beatles Revolver in mind. Looped and improvised live acoustic guitar in Pure Data.

Created around some time spent upstate in Ithaca (10 miles of heaven surrounded by reality) NY helping my son relocate back to New York. Created the Pure Data patch while there using sawtooth based waves which became the foundation of this piece…

A collaborative piece produced for July 19/20 2019 Sound-In event. The theme Apollo. I found a sequence of NASA soundbytes edited very creatively by DudeAwesome at Freesound.org (https://freesound.org/people/DudeAwesome/sounds/386070/). I improvised…read more