Variant 0n a variant: reverb added to Variant 1. Submitted to Sound-In "Percussion" for 3-6/12/2020.

First of three modifications on 5-4; phaser effect in Audacity. Submitted to Sound-In "Percussion" for 3-6/12/2020.

Drumming on the skin of what was supposed to, and may yet, be some type of guimbri-type instrument if I can get around to putting strings on it. First with a soft mallet, then with regular drumsticks. Submitted to Sound-In "Percussion" for 3-9…

Four tracks of percussive sounds played on the body of a neckless, stringless miniature acoustic guitar, picked up by a balanced contact mic. That was fed into an EHX Voice Box on Vocoder mode which was combined with various signals from a Zoom…

The LP "5" by Genesis keyboard man Tony Banks is a double, but only 3 sides. The fourth side has some raised characters (most appear to be the number 5 in various scripts - 5, V, the rounded triangle of Arabic, etc.). They have fairly rounded…

Brief test of multi-track clarinet. No effects. Submitted to Sound-In for 19/11 - 2/12/2020.

Another recording onto the MT4X cassette machine. This time the source was: Casio DH100 -> Roland SE-02 -> Behringer V-Amp2 -> Lexicon LXP-5. Due to various delays, it has the structure of a musical round based on a very simple melody…

Recorded live to 4-track cassette, then live mixed to digital. Condenser mic -> V-Amp 2 (output 1) -> Lexicon LXP-5 -> Yamaha MT4X " ( " 2) -> EHX Stereo Memory Man -> Zoom RFX-300 Yamaha MT4X Tin whistles…

Same technical set-up as with Too Late; this time just random vocalisations. Also submitted to Sound In for 12-19/11/2020.

Another Sound-In piece for 12-19/11/2020. This time, a recitation, three times, of a strange phrase my mother was wont to use on occasion, that I don't even know if she knew its origin. A brief search has shown that it may be from a parody of…

One of those pieces that seem to develop out of simple test recordings. An earlier iteration with less effects sounded a bit like movie bullet effects which inspired the title, that was expanded to fit the Surrealism theme of this week's (12-19…

Same source as "Puffing Billy... " but stretched even more. The title is one of those that come from what I hear, in this case near the end of the piece. Submitted to Sound-In for 5-12/11/2020.

A stretched glissando on trombone. No other alteration. Named after this fellow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puffing_Billy_(locomotive) Submitted to Sound-In for 5-12/11/2020.

Stretched sounds from a Mexican ocarina. Title copped from J. G. Ballard. Submitted to Sound-In for 29/10 - 05/11/2020.

Tenor sax picked up by contact mics attached to oven grilles. Submitted to Sound-In for Oct. 29 - Nov. 5/2020.

Wind chimes, a couple of metal objects sounded by dropping them end-wise on concrete patio stones, passing emergency vehicle siren. Submitted to Sound-In for 22-29/10/2020 "Metal".

Original sound source of trombone put through the wringer. Submited to Sound-In for 15-22/10/2020.

Three vocal improvisations through an EHX Voice Box, Two panned left/right respectively, one in middle. Submitted to Sound-In for 15-22/10/2020.

A snippet of interfering FM radios, modified and manipulated. A dawn chorus somewhere in the ether. All of the gaps are intentional.

Lots of modification on a tenor sax recording. Submitted to Sound-In for 1-7/10/2020.