Tenor sax key pops, and crackle from scraping tongue across end of reed.

Tenor sax, on just the top keys.

Some straight-up tenor sax, starting off somewhat tuneful but eventually wandering, as tends to happen.

Two different contact mic recordings; one on a high-tension electricity pylon, the other on a metal bridge frame. Both were processed with the same noise reduction sample, silences removed, then stretched to double length. Submitted to Sound-In…

Pink noise setting on Mini-Moog that seems to be malfunctioning slightly (sweeping sounds shouldn't happen). Effected by running it through noise reduction, the profile of which was taken from sounds of a tenor saxophone. Right channel is a reverse…

Monophonic recording of a bowed balanced contact mic (two piezo elements glued onto a small piece of wood and connected to the hot and cold of an XLR mic cable) clamped onto the front of a small acoustic guitar body (no neck or strings).

Straight-ahead tenor sax with no processing, post or otherwise.

I liked the way Texturetest turned out, as a modification of a very short sax improvisation, so decided to stretch it even more than that one - ten more times!

Stretch of a short tenor sax improvisation to see what would come out.

Not quite the kind of sounds I was hoping for, but decided to use them anyway. Contact mics placed on a high-tension electrical pylon on a windy day. One mono recording mixed with a stereo recording from a few minutes later. No post processing…

Double tracked cymbal with rubber mallet. I wasn't sure I liked how the first take went, so tried it again. Still couldn't decide which I preferred, so decided to overlap them. Each was recorded in two track mono, so panned them 30% either side…

Playing a pair of cracked cymbals with a soft vibes mallet. Different approaches each time (unaltered and mallet head, small metal tin lids to alter sound, playing using mallet handle). Only post alteration is some noise reduction.

Improv on clarinet, playing on some ideas that came from pieces currently being worked on by some members of the Toronto Improvisor's Orchestra. As the title implies, this is shorter than it would've been due to an interruption by a Facebook call…

Clarinet with lots of delay and reverb.

One of those test pieces that seems good enough to save. Voice into EHX Stereo Memory Man into Zoom RFX-300. The words are actually backwards.

A bunch of screaming kids out the back, so I decided to get out the horn and honk along. Used some noise reduction to get rid of some droning background, which caused a rather nice ringing sound. Chopped out a fair bit of resulting silence too.

First attempt at running a Mini-Moog through a Cry Baby wah-wah pedal. Sound setting was pink noise, with modulation added to the filter about half way through.

Trombone, with a foil pie plate wrapped over the bell as a sort of ringing mute. Got the idea from seeing Michael Snow do it with a trumpet back in the '70s. Submission to Sound-In, 14/5/2020

A bit of tomfoolery on a trombone that has been sitting idle for a little while. Submission to Sound-In, 14/5/2020

Ok, this now relatively short piece started out much longer; almost two hours. The sounds were obtained by placing two contact mics at different points around the rim of a circular light fixture in my apartment ceiling to get sounds created by…