Written on 4th of July during the fireworks

Evening here at the lake

Song for another friend

Since Norm found himself in an acoustically great room, full of unfinished cabinets I couldn't help but add some acoustic guitar, crank it up and hope you like it Norm!

electric mandolin on 3 tracks - 2 bowed (right and left) with viola bow and 1 strummed just a bit and mostly ebowed (center) Washburn bass voice with effects drum loops sliced and diced

"people make promises, some are promised a new kingdom."

full title: "input output smoothnews standstill on frog pond" ImprovFriday (8/27/10) mashup featuring Jeff Fairbanks (US), Jukka-Pekka Kervinen (Finland), Todd Lainhart (US), Steve Moyes (UK), & me w/the psychedelic vocals & bass.

An experiment with recording keyboard improvisations and running them through Paul's Extreme Sound Stretch. Orchestra X-7 was just the seat I was assigned at a concert once.

This is a fictional song...I get asked this all the time and I don't want anyone thinking my dad did anything like this...got you covered pops! LOL! Anyway, it's a song about child abuse and that's a tough subject to tackle but I think I did it…

A live recording done in our studio in Tucson, AZ. This is one of the first songs that Kit and Chris ever wrote together.

This song is from the concept album "The Tower of Rust" that we have yet to release. It is the villain (Ahriman) of our story introducing himself to the audience...and attempting to paint himself as a reluctant hero.

Timestretched acoustic guitar, cicadas. A sonic tribute to Ray Bradbury, who turns 90 this Sunday.

Body Disconnected (2002) was written to accompany choreography by Lauren Lutrell. The process included importing video clips of dance movements into the music programs I was using and scoring music to them as one might with a film soundtrack…

opium bath awaits for those who can make it past 37"

Ring of Fire - lyrics by Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash -1963. Slightly modified. This wasn't meant to be Ring of Fire but that's how it wound up. I have been wanting to trash Ring of Fire and the words just seem to fit this simple 1-4-5…

went ok for a while, but then..

A self-portrait in grunge. I recently got an electric guitar, so I'm testing the waters a little bit to see where I can use it. Electric instrumentation sure changes the way I approach multi-tracking, that's for sure!

its algorithmic concentric melody and rythm

This is an absolutely beautiful song written by Jon Foreman for his side project Fiction Family and I felt like givin it a shot soo I just kinda learnt it and threw it together theres a few flubbups but they kinda workout well in the end enjoy :)

All music by Tyler Dedera. All vocals by Shanna Dawn.

A nice airy piece I wrote a while ago :)

Don't go to the streets Where they put you to the ground Where they put you to the wall And they steal your broken heart Don't go to the streets Where they say that it's ok Where they've seen it all before And they put you to the wall The hand…

[2010] Broken Teeth & Black Bones

[2010] Broken Teeth & Black Bones

[2010] Broken Teeth & Black Bones

this song is just that! Crazy! A fresh salsa,hiphop clash sound with edgy yet destructive lyrics only add to its light hearted under tone! Good track indeed and Ap kills it.

A song about an epic boardgame: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/71/civilization Lyrics: Do you mean to tell me, It's 3000 BC? And I have nothing here but one piece to play? They're multiplyin' Population risin' And then they come together…

The Wife is a self confessed “Not a morning person”..... I am a morning person (well... Wake up happy person).... and so is the boy.... This causes some friction sometimes.... LOL!!!!!!! We went to a church fate today... Was…

I cant seem to play this unless I do it live.... That is something new to me... Used to be the other way around.... This is called "Do or die"... Do or Die (words and music by Tharek Mokbul) Do or die, that’s what Everyone here is…

[thanks to Vaisvil for making the genre name up]

I had not touched my keyboard for a long time - couple months? So it was inspiring to play it again. I set it up in the living room of the new house and played pianoteq on my laptop using a Just Intonation tuning (below). Actually I had to improvise…

This was a warm-up song I did in January 2010 in preparation for my February RPM Project, "Wave". I was just trying to get a vibe going and wasn't focusing on anything lyrically, hence why the title is also the only line in the song. This is…

As chance had it, I found myself in an acoustically great room, full of cajons! Well, they were unfinished cabinets actually, but they had lovely tones. Since this is the stuff dreams are made of, I had no choice but to seize the opportunity and…

an attempt to evoke the urban Brazilian scene - which has a rhythm all its own.

Written: 2004 Composer: Doug Sparling Midi demo written in vi on a Linux laptop. Piano music created at the command line on a Linux laptop. These are the first tunes I composed after switching from performing to writing. I don't own a piano…

Written: 2004 Composer: Doug Sparling Midi demo written in vi on a Linux laptop. Piano music created at the command line on a Linux laptop. These are the first tunes I composed after switching from performing to writing. I don't own a piano…

It seems a lot of you record with open mics and can relate. I record 1 track at a time with usually 4 or 5 tracks. So, Im only asking for about 15 minutes of Silence...IS THIS TOO MUCH TO ASK??? Anyway, my house is so loud, I get a lot of bloopers…

I wrote this one about this guy I worked with in a two man show. Do I feel guilty? Meh.

I had some lyrics describing a late nite cake baking experience kicking around. If I have a lot on my mind, dirtying every dish in the house seems like the right thing to do. I stole some cool percussion from Norm and went to work. I also…

This is a microtonal Jazz-ish piece produced with some newly developed techniques. Norm Harris provides the excellent percussion. I probably could have made it easier on myself by not being so chromatic… but there it is. The piano, bass…