Shhh!
2004: One of the things I like most about 'Shhh', is that it was improvised in less than two hours. I don't know exactly what to call this--new music, sound art, sound collage--but this type of narrative noise experiment is what I love. All of the parts are my undistorted voice on a SM57 and arranged in Digital Performer. This track is not balanced or eq'ed, so if you destroy your expensive stereo don't say I didn't warn you.
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We_Met_Outside_the_Eagle
2006: This is another down and dirty DIY number. I'm not a recording engineer or computer genius so apology for the crass beats and bad mix. Again all parts are my voice (except percussion). It's a gay North Indian Lauren Hill variant. The scale is a simple pentatonic and more or less directly references Raga Bhoopali. Recorded on a Sennheiser e835 and Logic.
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Tattooes_Bar_Tender_Sayings
2003: Another completely improvised work featuring Andrew Hopkins on percussion and Danny Haight on keyboards and vocals. This is a live recording @ The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA. I love this piece because of it's coherent randomness.
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SquirrelHunter
2002: Someone wanted a song about squirrels with an augmented fourth.
These two stories are from Speakeasy DC events. The rules are simple: seven minutes, narrative arc, and no notes. The first is called 'Circumcision is Ritual Male Genital Mutilation' and chronicles my conversion to Judaism. The second is titled 'Monkey Bite' and talks about the need to re-parent our traumatic memories and, well, being bitten by monkeys.
'Circumcision is Ritual Male Genital Mutilation', November 14, 2006, Washington D.C.
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'Monkey Bites', December 12, 2006, Washington D.C.
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