Norm's percussion strummed electric mandolin ebow electric mandolin piano voice snippet

This is a solo piano improvisation that I performed last year (2009) but have tinkered off and on for a while as a work in progress. It really isn’t done yet but I thought I might let others hear it. The piano sound is generated entirely by…

It is to you I look for every step It is to you I look for every breath No one can see the tide they're riding No one can see the place they're going It is for you I look in every face It is for you I look in every place There is no loneliness…

my brain on my ex - originates from 1996 - details below. Dulled What can I tell you? I hold nothing inside My brain aches from lack of.... Direction I am shriveling up inside Having not one thing to express And my feelings are dulled…

I'm working on several version of this art song by Charles Ives called The Cage from 1906. I would be very interested to collaborate with a vocalist (the flute line or an octave below) - and the vocal style doesn't have to be operatic - probably…

Year: 1997 Me trying to be a 3 piece band back in 1997 using the portastudio 1, fender mustang, crate amp, no-name bass, and jazz drum set. I've tried to improve it by remastering in sonar. Contributors: Please visit the graphic…

please see linked video => A Harmonic Series composition, Reverend Terry Jones, radical Islam, radical Christianity, doing harm in the name of religion. I took recordings of mandolin, guitar, and bass and processed them in Paul Extreme…

Well, I had this crazy idea that *maybe* Buddy Guy was using some microtonal inflections in his cover of Tramp (which are what the "blue notes" are and thought it would be cool to cover it with my fretless guitar. As it turned out it was my ear…

The last piece I improvised this past weekend for my dad and the residents who wanted to listen.

We went to visit my dad at his assisted living facility and they have a Yamaha Clavinova on which I improvised for a half hour to provide some entertainment. This is a ~ 3 minute excerpt from about half way through. This was recorded on my Zoom…

something I wrote for piano a long while ago I'm dusting off and trying to give it new life.

electric mandolin on 3 tracks - 2 bowed (right and left) with viola bow and 1 strummed just a bit and mostly ebowed (center) Washburn bass voice with effects drum loops sliced and diced

I *finally* found a solution for my two broken tuning machines on my old beat up mandolin. After getting the machines fixed I decided to take it for a spin. This is an improvisation as recorded on my Zoom H2 with just a bit of compression.

This started as my fretless guitar bowed and picked with various effects. I then applied Paul's Extreme Stretch at 8x and also with Just Intonation harmonic constraints similar to Keys at Lowes - then the 4 tracks were loaded into Sonar 8.5…

voice and effects improvisation

For improv friday This is part 2 - see Keys at Lowes for an explanation of what I'm trying to do. Ok, another try using base frequencies of 0.1, 3, 10, 17, 33 and 48 Hz spread in stereo space plus some of the original mixed in. (additional…

For improv friday I did an experiment using Paul's Extreme Stretch harmonics function and Audacity. I took a raw field recording (included here field recording http://notonlymusic.com/board/download/file.php?id=1187 ) and ran it through…

Album: the pleasure is all mine Artist's description: piano improvisation focusing on various non-dominant sevenths

Just an improvisation and some field recordings. Nothing much. There a lot of mistakes. You can tell I *didn't* use autotune....