As usual, the track titles have nothing to do with the actual music/sounds - I usually just pick something that fits with whatever theme/concept is in my head when it's time to get the cover art together. (This time around, it's power grid failures…

Another go at trying out a new plugin or two.

When I used to work third shift at Kinko's, I'd sometimes leave the weather radio on, and the automated voice and cadence (though different now from the one 20+ years ago) still has a comforting tinge of nostalgia. I have a weather radio on my…

At the beginning of February, I tried to learn to use VCV Rack, but never really took the time to learn properly. Instead, I took the couple of patches I managed to create, slowed them down, mashed them up with drums and canned percussion from…

A lot of Johnny Marr chords but then too much keyboard overlay to tell

The music is canned chords and patterns I pulled from EZKeys, then filtered through a plugin (Wires by AudioThing). The story comes from a silly cartoon a buddy posted on social media, followed by my addition about saltines. The last line is…

More fun with plugins and MIDI controller.

Listening back to this one, I was struck by a trio of mental images. The first was a memory from a flight back from some business trip. The clouds and the angle of the sunlight formed what looked like a blasted landscape over which towered…

rpm 2021 Vocals - Ben Parks, Violin - Laurel Morgan Parks, Solo Guitar - Stan Jones she lays there awake, alone in her head with a sunrise view it's hours before, a knock on her door will give her the news to say she's…

rpm 2021 she's on the go, she's got not time she will leave you all behind she's in the know, changes her mind she does shit like this all of the time where did she go somewhere far away where did she go it changes every day…

rpm 2021 Solo Guitar - Stan Jones the world is not enough getting smaller day by day running out of ways to change this world is not this world is not enough bigger things ahead I see adventures waiting there for me my desire…

rpm 2021 Vocals - Ben Parks, Violin - Laurel Morgan Parks, Solo Guitar - Stan Jones I follow this dream chasing it I need this to breathe suffocating we can't let it go driving ahead we just want to know everything follow this dream…

rpm 2021 Vocals - Ben Parks, Violin - Laurel Morgan Parks, Solo Guitar - Stan Jones there's that smile there's that shimmer in your eyes you remember all the photographs are stories in your mind you will never forget…

RPM 2021 Vocals - Ben Parks, Violin - Laurel Morgan Parks, Solo Guitar - Stan Jones Look inside your heart there's a place to start where your soul is free take a glance inside where your feelings hide buried there you will see just…