My performance of John Cage's 4'33"

David King, piano

It is perhaps for its discrete notoriety that Cage’s “4’33”” is most known. A rather philosophical piece, Cage challenges the belief that silence exists. Consisting of three movements of pure “silence,” the “piece” itself is actually comprised of incidental ambient and audience-induced sounds occurring during the performance.

4'33" (Cage) [Normalized]

My performance of Ian Headley's "Granular Study for Saxophone"

Ian Headley, electronics

"This piece is an experiment with using physical modeling of particles to control samples of a live instrument. In this study, density of the particles and their 3-dimensional location are used to manipulate the timbre of the live-sampled sound of the saxophone." --Headley

Granular Study For Saxophone (Ian Headley)

My performance of Ian Headley's "ahhh7.aif"

Ian Headley, electronics

“One of the many stray ambient music files strewn throughout the mess of music folders on my computer. This file is a loop of the sound of an organist warming up before a concert; when frozen, it becomes eerily reminiscent of William Basinski accompanied by free modal jazz.” --Headley

ahhh7.aif (Ian Headley)

Hot Tub Funk Machine jam - rough mix, one take

Hot Tub Funk Machine - Fluorine (rough mix)

Third track in my synthesizer soundscape projects. This time adding an acoustic piano layer. Taken from just one take; no note editing. Part of my synthesizer improv series of pieces.

Synth Improvisation #3

A slow ballad I wrote a year ago. I'd say it's about 95% complete at this point. I will most likely tighten it all up and add a more melodically involved guitar solo, but I wanted to throw this version up. I have lyrics for this, just not inserted into the track, so it may sound a little bare at times.

Track I wrote for a film. Work in progress at the time.

[Work in Progress] - Pop Ballad

Punk indie garage band jam song. Intentional rough mixing/edits, old-sounding equipment, still kicks ass nonetheless. Wrote this track for a film.

Solid-state

Fourth track in my synthesizer soundscape projects. Taken from just one take; no note editing. Part of my synthesizer improv series of pieces. Tense ambience drama cue.

Synth Improvisation #4

Wrote this as an old-school backing rap track for a film.

Old-School Rap Film Track

Metal, funk, jam, grunge, classical, philosophy

BassAssassin