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Here you'll find various uncollected recording projects and audio experiments.


[Collage of digital photographs processed to look like instant film in the manner typical of early days of the Instagram app.]


We Conservatives (Homage to 2011) (2020)


In 2020 I found an SD card that had been used to store audio in a hardware sampler I'd begun using about ten years previously; though my concerns and tools had changed, use of recordings as raw materials has remained a constant. These two recordings layer several passes of triggering the various samples with randomized MIDI notes.


[Composite image of layered stills from the video sampled in the recording below.]


Talk to Me (2020)


Among the most stimulating techniques of contemporary digital music is the use of snippets of recordings familiar enough to excite the listener even when they may be brief enough to elude conscious recognition of their original context. This recording loops slices of one well-known popular song in a way which may seem superficially randomized but is, in fact, entirely determined by the software in which the operation was executed.


[Long-exposure photograph of a Yamaha FB-01 synthesizer with a ghostly image of Erik Satie.]


FM Demo (2020)


The score of a familiar sentimental piece for piano, reused to demonstrate a bank of stock presets in a well-known FM synthesizer.


[Composite image of Arnold Schoenberg and stills from a video sampled in the recording below.]


Yas Queen (2019)


A side-recording of the MONO project with Shahrod, this audio results from his manipulation of a particular environment of looping samples.


[Image of streaking lights on a highway.]



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