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…

There are times, moments, sounds, shadow falls that take us to and bring us back to magical times in our lives,,,Something in this piece by Johnny Mercer & Henry Mancini,, can pull me in so many different ways,,, it's always been a favorite…

slow beginning

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.

chilled, jazzy and laidback...

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.

Recorded the first half on the fly, just lyrics and some ideas floating around. Didn't even practice singing before this.

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.

The first commandment with a promise, check it out

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

Once upon a time I used to be. Now I tell everyone. I'm in "LOVE"

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"

I always wonder why God is so good to me. I keep doing the things I shouldn't do, but I guess He looks on me as a son, He forgives me when I ask forgiveness because He knows that I never do wrong intentionally. Oh how I love Him.

Yesterday stained a memory on my mind

Advice to you who are young and strong

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.

Well, this one was written many years ago. I dug it up from the archives and re-recorded it. The arrangement and lyrics stayed the same. I just thought it could use some touching up.

A droney xaphoon improvisation with live looping.

. . . or least 3 and a half years closer than them first time I recorded this. *updated audio 8-11-12

Drum loops, two basses in Drop C, and a dude reading Revelations Chapter 13. Mostly just an experiment in drop tunings for me.

Mansfield University Concert Choir Reunion Concert Mansfield University Concert Choir Director - Peggy Dettwiler Recording/mixing engineer - Brad Rissmiller

Rage Against the Machine cover, fat and loud