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


[Banner image representing my end-of-2024 mix.]

End-of-the-Year Mix 2024


More than five hours of deep, sensual sounds to soothe and to stimulate, featuring some of the recordings that most attracted me in 2024.


[Banner image representing my end-of-2023 mix.]

End-of-the-Year Mix 2023


Presenting some of the recordings that most haunted me in 2023. This is the first of these audio projects rendered entirely with "free software."


[Banner image representing my 2018-2023 mix.]

My Past Five Years as a Virtual Mixtape, 2018-2023


Commemorating the fifteenth anniversary of my current last.fm account with a "mix tape" style presentation of more than two hours of recordings selected from those it says I've most listened to since I began using the site again in the five years leading up to June 2023. Includes much of the source material for my recent Mother of Vinegar streams.


[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.]


Come Ride With Me (2018)


"The man who plays 'on his radio' as if it were an instrument, obtaining ready-made, accordion-like chords dragged into each other in a dilettantish way, is a sort of model for all behavior where individual initiative attempts to alter ubiquity-standardization."

-- T. W. Adorno, Radio Physiognomics


This "mix" was edited down from several recordings I made in the car while turning the radio dial in April 2018. Many of the quick cuts you hear result from the car's digital radio tuner failing to resolve between two frequencies.


[Collage of old family photos.]


You can also hear some recordings of my family talking about their lives that my father made.



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