Ya know, driving around in a cold winter snow storm picturing tropical islands.

a field recording/sound collage from last Saturday at the Fort Worth MOMA. Sounds inside the Serra sculpture Vortex, and the African percussion/dance ensemble Jumbie.

step sequencer improv (minimalist) from 2005

This is a remake of Samba do Bonde, now with portuguese lyrics. A loose translation below: Priviledge, the two of us here to sit, converse, to feel the warmth of friendship always too brief just a give and take between immortals (close…

Best Punk band ever!

...yes.

This is a live recording done a few weeks after writing this song. It will be released on the upcoming "jalipaz" E.P.

Randy Brown and I did a little co-write this evening and this is what we came up with... I MISTOOK IT FOR THE MOON Capo @ 2 Key D (Play in C positions) I was coasting across West Texas/Had my top down, it was late at night I caught a coyote…

Recorded in 2004. Joe Silence - guitars, synths, Optigan, sound collage Alissa Barthel - ghost vocals Jonathon Wing - drum solo

i got home from street chant at like 2am, took my clothes off, sat on my bed and wrote this. its about me. and you and me. and i dedicate it to sylvia plath, because she is very cool.

from the album "the Hardest Blow" featuring vocals & samples from Barney of Vivian Circle I’m just singing for the war, inside me Four thousand soldiers dead, maybe more, maybe more It’s hard to read between the lines, so blurry now…

Recorded in 2006. Joe Silence - guitars, beats, vocals Mark Cook - fretless and 12-string basses Originally written by Russell Cowser. New arrangement and additional material by Joe Blair.

Recorded in 2005. The keyboard sound in the second half is a backwards electric piano processed through a triggered filter (kind of like a Mutron III). Muted the vocals cos I'm not too pleased with the lyrics or performance.

Recorded in 2006. ambient, Ambien, muy bien. *opens window and takes deep breath* Backwards electric piano through a ring modulator and an echo, then processed to death in WaveLab.

a piece that's a bit older, and one of my first attempts at using a music synth

The first cracks in the new relationship start to show from the Beginings Tapes

final candidate

I am leaving this week for a while but couldnt resist adding as the third collaborator on this excellent track by Keith Landry and Osckilo before I go. Added some bass,ambient stings, and of course sleigh bell Hope you guys like it. See you…

I sat down at the computer and recorded this one. No fancy edit here. I would to have had a Fiddle, and a Penny Whistle mixed in too.

Ah I hope that my title is not overly presumptious...I love funk and just assume every one else does too :)

Lyrics are from a poem inspired by the Picasso painting of the same name, written by Trevor Lewis.

6 hour mini album 11/14/10

6 hour mini album 11/14/10

This song was recorded in Oct. 2010, but it was written in 1970 or 71 after a phone call from my brother Joe who was on the lam from the law and living in Northern CA. The song proved prophetic. He was found dead of a drug overdose in Panhandle…

Another Embrace track

A cello improvisation with live looping, recorded after hearing of the passing of a great composer.

Delay improvisations are my anti-drug.

Written for Noel MacDuffie's dance theater piece, Soul Descending, this scene sees poor Abigail first tormented by the lure of the underworld where the specter of her lost William wanders with the denizens of the underworld.

Thanks everyone for the input!! I guess i'll go without vocals

Do you save the manuals for all your household appliances? The manual that I'll always have my whole life through is the manual that tells me how to live. "THE BIBLE"

Yesterday stained a memory on my mind

Algorithmic totalist piece.

This is for anyone who has ever been a member of a garage band, especially one who didn't quite make it.

I love jamming over electronic beats. Lay down a little riff and just rip it. Love it.