This is a little piece dedicated to the lost world island of Socotra that grabs a lot of instrumentation from across Asia with little discrimination - the melodic instruments use Afshari with the exception of the Jaw harps which use 9-tET Sorog.

This is a song that started as just an idea I had playing live one lovely thursday evening and I just started playing this progression and sang some gibberish over it and I came up with the "chorus" part and and the Idea of asking questions in…

"Gypsy! Give Me Your Tears!"

I live my daydreams in music.

Last Christmas my collaborator and fuzzy inspiration Charlie passed over the rainbow bridge - he was very old for a ferret 9 or 10 years old. He was adopted from a shelter and remained a touch-me-not independent ferret all his life with us…

Been carrying this around since 1982, finally recorded it. Composed when we were expecting our first child, hence the anxiety.

Well, this is the hastily written, poorly performed, weakly sung, badly mixed love song I threw together a few years back about the last time I saw the Northern Lights. It happened to be the night I fell in love with my future wife (and knew…

A re-mastered version using Norm Harris' excellent percussion serial improvisation with korg ms 2000 cameleon 5000 rapture LE z3ta+ And Norm's percussion room

From last February... I'm not sure where I'm going - its late - I'm tired so I may be out of my mind. several absynths pianoteq heavily modified session 3 drums through guitar rig stratocastor through guitar rig vocoded voice via korg ms2000…

Year: 1984 Album: Singles Artist's description: From the primitive days of using two cassette decks and a 4 pot mixer (no panning, RRLL). I found one of the original double tracking tapes - this sounds complete but is 1st generation unlike…

Year: 1996 Album: Classical Clones Artist's description: improvisation on my Casio CZ-101 in 20th century classical style. There was no theoretical basis or anything with this. It's all just rock n roll to me ;-) Inspiration…

Jason Sloan and I recorded this track in March 2010 as an improvisation in preparation for our performances on The Vigil all-night music festival at MICA. Jason describes the session: "Erik and I come from very different backgrounds in our approach…

An edit from the Other Texas Music show, for brevity. Joined the ebow improv intro with the closing "Hymn".

I was drunk and feeling like a loser, so I wrote a song about it. It's the coolest song you ever heard... :)