Brian Harnetty recently wrote me a piece for vibraphone and four cassette tapes. He asked me to record some vibraphone samples to include in the tape part and sent along the pitch sets he wanted me to use. 

Today (months later)I opened the session so I could share those samples with another friend so he could use them in a project he's working on. I accidentally hit play with all the tracks on and was pleased with the sound, so I did some mixing and now I'm uploading it here. 

Sometimes we create beautiful things unintentionally and don't realize it until much, much later.

071913

072213 (Music for a Film by Chris Lange - excerpt)

Testing some ideas for a piece for 4 players using.. feminine massagers.

1) passing over the pick-up of an old guitar with some distortion and delay.
2) on strings with delay
3) on frame drum with contact mic and pitch-shifter
4) on cymbal with band-pass filter

The piece will be performed at the Splooge Magazine (a weirdo-art-porn-parody mag) first issue release show at the Union in August.

072413 (SprklVbz)

Duck Army Slow/Reverse

Scraped flower pots turned into a midi instrument.
Max for Live mono-sequencer used to control simple loops of shifting polyrhythmic music boxes.
and reverb.. always lots of reverb. 

062813

I made a max patch so I could perform a solo version of Christopher Shultis' piece "Metaphysics" (originally for speaker, 8 cassette tapes/players and 7 assistants).
I decided it would be fun to do a version for text-to-speech.

Here it is performed live using max, soundflower and textedit.

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