Understanding The Times With Jan Markell

Raymond McMahon - Jesus Is Our Shepherd (09/17/09)

Thamyris invented the 8 string Cithara and challenged the muses to a musical duel. His punishment for losing was to have his hands cut off. Now all he can do is imagine one last chattar solo as he takes his last breath. The gods have taken away…

Enjoy this wordy tune. I hope I took it in a good direction. I guess I can always change it out in the future! Thanks, Doug

A piece of experimental whimsy. I took a nice piano loop from the Logic library and utterly destroyed it with The Finger. What's interesting about this to me is that I was not playing the MIDI driving The Finger but using Elysium to do so. Here…

I'm uploading this more as a record for me than because I think either of these Destroyed Piano tracks are particularly listenable. In this track I've used the same pattern as before but varied the probabilities of the various notes to try and…

A further development of flakey, would love it if someone could put some chill type vocals on it

Mistakes x 5

This is Oslo singing his abc's at 26 months old! Very Cute!

Well the votes are in and nobody, who has commented, seems to think I have offended against Satie with this. That's kind of cool because this really is one of my favourite pieces of music and one that I hope, one day, to be able to play myself…

Compositionally this song started out with the drum pattern and grew from there. I'm not sure why I chose the title 'Mad Man' but in some ways I thought it was fitting. Anyway, this song is dedicated to crazy geniuses whose academic work is…

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For someone who uses a computer and the internet to distribute his music, this is kind of an odd, if not ironic song to sing. However . . .

I like a bit of Mr Young and often do a few of his songs at open mike nights etc. this is one recorded as it happened onto a hand held recorder. bit rough round the edges, but so is Neil.