Partita for solo violoncello was composed for Sumire Kudo in the spring of 2007. Although it is a single movement work, its form derives from a collage-like assemblage of diverse materials that can be heard as fragments of movements from an imagined…

More Ace of Base, less Enya.

Just a quick conceptual sketch of a new piece we're brewing. 210 bpm, 5/4, with 6 bars per phrase. We'll probably take this down once we've got more there. Our poor pianist will probably get carpal-tunnel syndrome from this. Instrumentation…

I'm convinced that composing/recording daily is the best way to really find out if a DAW fits your workflow. And I think Ableton Live nailed its final nail in the coffin for me tonight. See, if I weren't writing so much, so quickly, I would be…

Recorded: August 8, 2009 Details: Epiphone Les Paul (DADGAD/DADGBE - capo III), Seymour Duncan Pickups, POD XT, Boss RC-20 Looper, Audacity, Sound Forge.

This is how i wake up... this is how i fall asleep... This is what i think about... when i'm trying to sound deep...

Rough version

So I still hate Ableton Live with a passion for anything piano related. But things seem to go better if I head straight to arrangement view once I'm out of the improvising stage and do my recording there, rather than trying to think that session…

There's a note that sounds like it's getting abruptly chopped off somewhere in the song. Hopefully, you won't hear it, because I couldn't figure out what was causing it.