this is a song by my niece Clara. She's 4. the lalalala's are Noah's (6) contribution. Recorded Christmas day 2008. Happy New Year all alonetoners! glad to be here. t.

A simple 3-part "round" or canon with variations, showing my children how you can devise a melody that can stack on top of itself like offset puzzle pieces, which will then make its own harmony (with a nod to the master of rounds and fugues, J…

Recorded: December 31, 2008 Guitar: DADGAD (Capo V) (low D dropped to even lower G for bass on one part)

A cover of the Black Keys' track.

A cover of The Black Keys' track.

A cover of the Raconteurs' track. Recorded December 31st, 2008. My cat runs into the mic about halfway through...sorry about that.

One from a year ago or so. Never was happy with the recording quality, but never got around to re recording it. My attempt at a kind of late 70's Phil Keaggy thing

This song was written to celebrate freedom, actually, (the Russian at the end is one of the dudes from Freesound.com saying "sound should be free!") after a decade when I wasn't. Props to Shreya, who apparently is like me and will just not go…

Just a fun track I made that I haven't quite figured out how to integrate Shreya's piece 'Hades' over the middle section. A bit jarring but I still like it.

Recorded December 31, 2008 Guitar: EBEGAD (Capo II)

Yo-Yo Ma uploaded this cello part on indabamusic and invited others to create with it. I thought it was a cool idea. I had help with this christmas song from Matthiew, a wandering Parisian trumpet player.

it is a piece in threes. it is said that good things come in threes. it is in 3/4. it has three sections. it has three notes. the 3 note sequence was generated, repeated, overlayed, slower and faster in software. it is a small piece. it comes…

An acapella bit of Shreya's. She had recorded it to sound super high-pitched, and when I dropped it down a few octaves, was treated to a wonderful Bjork sound. At her request I threw some hip-hop beats underneath and away we go. Scary and sexy…

Earlier this year I was in a community choir, mostly senior citizens performing songs by bands like Soundgarden and Green Day. One of the songs, "Grateful," had a lyric that went 'In a city of strangers/I have a family of friends.' It was Halloween…

This was the first song Shreya played me, and she said it came to her in a dream, and I believe it. It's flooring, and her vocals/acoustic guitar are relatively untouched. I added the other virtual instruments, and if you listen carefully, you…

A cover of The Raconteurs track. Recorded Christmas 2008.

A cover of The Black Keys' track of the same name. Recorded Christmas 2008.