Fallen Arkansas Blackbirds is inspired by the 2011 New Year's Eve report of thousands of blackbird dead and dying in Beebe Arkansas. Some apparently dead upon impact others dying a bit slower as they tried to walk away. This is the sad scene…

classical guitar improvisation with loop station.

An solo fender mustang piece forked through distortion, GR-20 bass, and albino ambient sequenced pad.

A guitar solo - fender mustang voice in one channel and the GR-20 voice in the other

This is an loop station improvisation with my death metal strung up strat (low B - effectively a baritone guitar - which I did see one at Guitar Center a couple weeks ago) with some layered synths afterward. Hopefully you'll find it as…

11 notes per octave (11 edo) has been a tuning that has generated a lot of music later. Not wanting to be left out I decided to take some time to compose a piece in 11 edo using Garritan Personal Orchestra. As a subject matter suitable for…

A setting of CA Conrad's poem, Subterrestial Aria, 1st Watch 7/8 90 BPM CA Conrad's reading of his poem from pennsound Prepared electric mandolin Electric guitar looped Flute French Horn Bowed Piano Tubular Bells Field recording of an upright…

A good friend and percussionist Norm Harris contributed percussion to this track – A Cast of Billions - so I ripped out all of the midi percussion and used Norm’s percussion, added a track where I speak Evan’s poem and did some remastering…

17 equal guitar, loop station, whammy pedal, distortion pedal, Garritan world sample set.

The only thing notable about this cover of George Harrison's The Art of Dying is that it is one take (of *many* blown attempts) with the only edit being adding a bit of choir at the end using the midi data from the Roland GR-20. And no I didn…

Well, I feel almost human today. Been a rough few days with the flu or something. I'm running on a baked potato - seems I can't each much else yet. It was ironic that I became sick just when I went to pick up a Boss Loop Station I found for half…

This starts at essentially the same improvisation pattern and then travels elsewhere - I think I like the Martin version better myself. This one is in stereo.

Just an improvisation for ImprovFriday - recorded on my Zoom H2 in the expensive acoustic guitar room at my local guitar center. I had to switch to mono because I had the zoom too sensitive and created a series of pops on one channel. This…

zither, slide mandolin, vocal not the best recording - oh well.

The music is a repeat - but the video is new. Press "more" Sister Savage had the original idea for the "holy haunted aquariums"

I hope you can see the above picture - I scored a 15 chord autoharp zither for $42 on ebay. 4 old guitar strings later (I save them... just in case :-) and a tuning against an organ patch she is working nicely again. Can't wait to show Emily…

In response to a suggestion of Dr. Ozan Yarman I tried a tuning he created for a different project. I realized the composition using Garritan Personal Orchestra Baroque organs, Garritan World sample set Oud and Santoor samples performed on an…

This is a piece written for a small ensemble of Violin, Viola, Cello, Double Bass, Flute, French Horn and Percussion in harmonic series tuning using a section from harmonic 12 to 30 reduced to an octave tuning of 15 steps. This piece is…

This is the instrumental version of A Cast of Billions. I have a hard time judging my own voice (thus a true singer I am not) and it seems this vocal was rougher than most of mine. So, lets try over again with this mix. Music in 17 equal I…

Commemorating the epic struggle taking place in Wisconsin (USA) an improvised piece for orchestral, Indian, Chinese, and African percussion plus 3 synthesizers in harmonic series tuning. (A straight harmonic series from C1 and on up). Performed…