Another mix of video game sounds plus acoustic instruments (a la the flute in this one). Thanks for listening!

I started with a MIDI file created by seeding the "Meta-Composer" Poodles & Flan with the word "Memory," and then fed it to three virtual VST instruments: Tweakbench Carillion & Tapeworm, respectively a Bell Modeling synth & Mellotron…

Testing new toy Korg R3. All of these sounds are created by me. R3 is really great.

This is my version of circle C

I was just playing along with a looper pedal, trying to work out some ideas for a "real" song. I was just recording straight to a single stereo track and not worrying much about my playing or the mix. But when I listened back afterwards, I thought…

The plinky sound is an acoustic guitar prepared with a drumstick stuck under the strings.

The original mix (on the RPM '09 album) was drenched in mic hiss. I used noise reduction to remove about 2/3 of it for this version (it didn't seem right to remove it completely). I roll off the noise reduction at the end for the au naturale outro.

Divine hand or black swan?

My evening challenge: Compose and record something in an evening.

My evening challenge: compose and record a piece in an evening. I stitched together a couple of demos and added a virtual Harry Partch instrument.

These are 3 variations to the mexican "the cockroach" popular theme

I made a song out of the fable "The Boy and the Schoolmaster" by Jean De La Fontaine, that french writer from the 17th century. And here's the story: " A boy, that frolicked on the banks of Seine, Fell in, and would have found a watery grave…

A spacey electronic number. Part of my song a week project. http://yelyah.com/song-a-week/

I wrote this song for a musical Thanksgiving party that Sudara threw in Santa Fe back in 2002.

At the end of 2003, I was recording a bunch of covers in my basement in Portland, Oregon. This was the only original recording from that time. I was pretty bummed out at the time...

This is a track from my abandoned "Weekend Follies" album, which was recorded in my parent's basement in Mercer Island, Washington during the summer of 2003.

This is a track from my abandoned "Weekend Follies" album, which was recorded in my parent's basement in Mercer Island, Washington during the summer of 2003. This track was recorded during Seafair weekend. That's one of the "Blue Angels" flying…

Recorded February 2003 - June 2003 in Sydney, Australia

Recorded February 2003 - June 2003 in Sydney, Australia

Recorded February 2003 - June 2003 in Sydney, Australia

Recorded February 2003 - June 2003 in Sydney, Australia

Recorded February 2003 - June 2003 in Sydney, Australia

Recorded February 2003 - June 2003 in Sydney, Australia

Recorded February 2003 - June 2003 in Sydney, Australia

Recorded September 2002 - January 2003 in Los Angeles, CA

Recorded September 2002 - January 2003 in Los Angeles, CA

Recorded September 2002 - January 2003 in Los Angeles, CA

Recorded September 2002 - January 2003 in Los Angeles, CA

Recorded September 2002 - January 2003 in Los Angeles, CA

Recorded September 2002 - January 2003 in Los Angeles, CA

Recorded September 2002 - January 2003 in Los Angeles, CA

Recorded September 2002 - January 2003 in Los Angeles, CA

Recorded September 2002 - January 2003 in Los Angeles, CA

Originally recorded for Vivian Circle, it never felt comfortable there. The uncomfortableness of PALLAS songs, made it fit. Square hole. Round peg. perfection. Oh, and this is officially the first PALLAS song.

Taking a drum track I built in Hydrogen, mixed with about 100 Thousand descending Shepard Tones (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepard_tone), and a noise drone built of sequenced tones from the KLSTRBAS Nyquist plugin. I'm not sure I like the…

This is the raw vocal with guitar... I had a bad cold, so it is very nasal... but I plan on re-recording it when I feel a little better and my sinuses clear up.