electric 12 str duet

...the night was forever

Using Garritan’s World sample set I play a Balinese Gamelan in a way I can only imagine is not traditional.

tomorrow it will pass too.

Ilmenau Over All the Treetops is an adaptation of Ives’s setting of Goethe’s poem dated 1902. The accompaniment is a combination of bassoon, english theorbo and psaltery. This is a fortuitous tape recording from Reg's obscure neo-classical period…

From the in progress album "Bethan Reads"

describe this music for us hmmm, now that is rather hard. It is something between the complete and utter silence of a stellar super nova in space which cannot conduct sound and a pin drop in an echo chamber with extreme amplification. That…

I was feeling rather tortured at the time...

William Newbold and I collaborate.

The audio in the video video is a selected annotated collection of Electric Aeolian Harp recordings taken over a consecutive 36 hour period. During that time the environment changed (wind, rain, sleet, snow) and I changed the tuning of the harp…

Frank Miller and I again join forces. Frank composed and performed the drums and we collaborated on the production

some more sitar

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I have a feeling I will make no one happy with this setting of Psalm 62 (I didn't complete the Psalm). I imagine some will seem it an improper setting, and others will dislike the religious text, and probably all will agree I need a lot more practice…

rock ensemble.

solo guitar

Again at the Church Steinway - recorded via my phone The title comes from a comment made by another member of the music ministry band.

to have you in your grasp is a piece that features Jacky Ligon’s programs FMTS version 2 and IVOR as well as session drummer and my 17 edo guitar. She plays in fields of grass Not afraid of the world at last Did you want to be as free…

The poem is by Jason Kirk Bartley This is in 19 edo and I play drums using a Simmons SMDP1 drum pad. The quality of poem is a lot higher than my music which is kind of an odd psychedelic blues not usually associated with the subject.

another improvisation with my Church’s newly tuned Steinway grand piano. The sound of this instrument almost would seduce me away from micro-tonality music. Its a lovely instrument. I hope you enjoy the recording I made on my Zoom H2 (about 10…