I'm a big fan of the volume swell or Slow Gear effect, and finally found a great opportunity to use it here. Can't get to sleep, mind racing, can't get thoughts out of your head...

Let's have fun with the sliders on the synth! Modulation through the reso and cutoff filters on a Roland XP30. Tones built and held with a sustain pedal and released during transitions. What would it feel like if a painful thought just kept…

The lyrics are inspired by King Crimson's "The World's My Oyster Soup Kitchen Floor Wax Museum" where each word is connected only to the next word. This piece takes some liberty with that idea and incorporates phrases, verbs and connecting words…

Our son loves using the phone even if it's one handset to the other. Occasionally he would get close enough to cause feedback. Using a cell phone on speaker, along with the handset on speaker, creates a different kind of feedback with delay and…

Noodling around one evening, playing with harmonics with a crunchy autowah patch.

A simple three note progression moved around the fretboard.

This particular song was intended to be more uplifting until the G/G# line was laid down. The tension provided by that pairing changed the nature of the song, so the vocals changed to suit, a distortion effect was added, and the low toms finished…

The idea for this song came from an article on thescope.ca that profiled Dan Aykroyd and his skull vodka, which is made from Newfoundland and Labrador iceberg water. As soon as I saw the title of the article, I had the chorus, and knew that I…

This was a collaboration with fellow NanoStudio SoundClouder Peanut Gallery: http://soundcloud.com/peanut_gallery-1 He started us off with the wonderful bass, and we built it up from there.

This song ties in with a novel I hope to finish before the world ends... The story is about two elite secret society brats that sail a plastic boat out to the great garbage patch, only to discover a new ecosystem of advanced life, made entirely…

Song was recorded by Matt Wentworth of Our Last Night (Epitaph Records) at his home studio (Impact Studios)

A remix of this tune by a guy who really knows how to mix tracks proper...Andy found a producer type guy that liked this song but thought the mix was really bad...so I sent him all the individual tracks and this is what he came up with I think…

Dadaism? mm.