At the end of 2003, I was recording a bunch of covers in my basement in Portland, Oregon. This was the only original recording from that time. I was pretty bummed out at the time...

I wrote this song for a musical Thanksgiving party that Sudara threw in Santa Fe back in 2002.

A spacey electronic number. Part of my song a week project. http://yelyah.com/song-a-week/

I made a song out of the fable "The Boy and the Schoolmaster" by Jean De La Fontaine, that french writer from the 17th century. And here's the story: " A boy, that frolicked on the banks of Seine, Fell in, and would have found a watery grave…

These are 3 variations to the mexican "the cockroach" popular theme

My evening challenge: compose and record a piece in an evening. I stitched together a couple of demos and added a virtual Harry Partch instrument.

My evening challenge: Compose and record something in an evening.

Divine hand or black swan?

The original mix (on the RPM '09 album) was drenched in mic hiss. I used noise reduction to remove about 2/3 of it for this version (it didn't seem right to remove it completely). I roll off the noise reduction at the end for the au naturale outro.

The plinky sound is an acoustic guitar prepared with a drumstick stuck under the strings.

I was just playing along with a looper pedal, trying to work out some ideas for a "real" song. I was just recording straight to a single stereo track and not worrying much about my playing or the mix. But when I listened back afterwards, I thought…

This is my version of circle C

I started with a MIDI file created by seeding the "Meta-Composer" Poodles & Flan with the word "Memory," and then fed it to three virtual VST instruments: Tweakbench Carillion & Tapeworm, respectively a Bell Modeling synth & Mellotron…

Another mix of video game sounds plus acoustic instruments (a la the flute in this one). Thanks for listening!

A cautionary tale. Tune shamelessly stolen from "All About You" by McFly.