From Alex B's Beat Tape Volume 1 www.alexbeats.com www.1320records.com www.myspace.com/pnuma

its basically like putting cake in the toaster

Solo acoustic guitar recorded January 2nd 2009. Hope to do a longer more developed version at some point ,but for now just a short version to learn more about using new DAW software.

I thought the hand claps were a bit weird but I wasn't running this dog and pony show. See more notes under "red cowboy" and "I left my toothbrush in St. Louis".

This was a sort of vignette of the various ways we might travel across the United States: automobile, trains, and planes. Composed for winter percussion - the indoor percussion equivalent of marching band, with a dash of theatrics.

Flow is all around us, and sometimes there is a lack of flow. This show explored the different facets and associations of flow.

the most awesome thing ever recorded by anyone, anywhere, at anytime in the entire history of recorded things. It's true.

A simple 3-part "round" or canon with variations, showing my children how you can devise a melody that can stack on top of itself like offset puzzle pieces, which will then make its own harmony (with a nod to the master of rounds and fugues, J…

This song was written to celebrate freedom, actually, (the Russian at the end is one of the dudes from Freesound.com saying "sound should be free!") after a decade when I wasn't. Props to Shreya, who apparently is like me and will just not go…

This was the first song Shreya played me, and she said it came to her in a dream, and I believe it. It's flooring, and her vocals/acoustic guitar are relatively untouched. I added the other virtual instruments, and if you listen carefully, you…

Just one of my ambient "places to go live for a while" pieces

The sad part of a violent robot operetta. SPOILER: the robot dies.

A little trip on the underground

this is a poem by Herman Hesse. its a pretty simple poem but it means a lot to me. its my first song in another language.

growing closer (despite farther)

i'm not sure if i like this song. it has a ruff sort of flow and recording. i was thinking of adding some mellow synth backing to help it sound full but i don't want to start that now, so i wont.

More of a demo of an idea than a finished song, here it is nonetheless.

there are two reasons that i decided the cover this song of peters. A. its easy B. it has a wonderful sense of irony the strong things of this earth will be made foolish.

their aren't many things that take "it puts me to sleep" as a complement. i think this song takes it wonderfully. thanks jason for making music and letting me give it a try.

This piece is my original almost-fugue-sounding arrangement of my favorite Ukranian “Christmas Carol”, Carol of the Bells, as if J.S. Bach had written it. Ingredients: Warmth, depth, complexity, eternal romance. Dedicated to my Belle. This was…

Drive slowly and plan your route to ram into each of them.

A music for a girl, a music for the music, muses...

Do your best, not another one's

Clockwork yellow

Try to get to the moon for a girl, and discover that you are alone in space...

Alternate title: Gratuitous Love Scene Just hacking around with these chords; added some stuff and before I knew it I had one of those bits of cheesy music that accompanies those gratuitous sex scenes...

Answering the question of whether or not overdone reverb has been uncool for so long that it is now cool again. The answer: no, still uncool.

This is a short prelude for piano and cello I wrote for my son

A very old song that I should have heeded long ago.

Another thanks to Desoto for giving this song some necessary atmosphere.

After I finished collecting and mixing all the trumpet tracks from Montgomeru, I was no longer sure which one of us actually wrote this song.

More Montgomeru on trumpet. The lyrics for this song were written by myself and Mike Connor back when we were Sloth House.

The longing is authentic. What more can I say.

a musical landscape,made of the noble sarod,played with bottleneck,and absynth.. passing from the known to other shores....

from my re-mix CD

for any one who has a friend or loved one that makes you hope for the best, and fear the worst... this song is for a friend that I have had a long dialog with(years)... he's very self destructive... you don’t care about winning the argument, you…

it is a winter blanket of snow. it smothers life. it attempts to silence all sound. however, small ghosts of music escape. they always find each other. every winter they dance together. they are the notes of christmas past. 0x0 hw: quicksilver…