SHINY THINGS Like the shiny things a crow stashes Crumpled napkins and cold ashes Like broken pieces when the bottle smashes My tears don't mean anything at all Like the golden rings around your fingers The forgotten songs by unknown…

Pure Data patch, lap steel, DIY Arduino midi controller, lap steel triggering.

Rough mix, song written back in 2010-2011 timeframe. I plan on redoing the drum performance and finishing the mix in the near future.

The Challenge posted on the Deluge Discord group for April 2024 was to make an ambient drone track, and to share some new patches. I wanted to see if the new effects in the Community Firmware v1.1 Beta were up to it, and they seemed to be! I crafted…

You had me at, "Of All the gin joints in all the towns in all the world..." Kind of a tribute to the movies. The ending evokes in me the wrenching from dreamcraft to lifecast when the final credits roll.

Volcas, guitar, Minibrute 2.

There is a built-in psychedelia when an inexpensive and out of tune ukulele is multitracked. This little ramble is built around tuning a five string banjo. Recorded straight to tape on a Tascam multistudo in 2012.

Still a work in progress

A song written and recorded for the Record Every Month Challenge in April 2024