A song inspired by my wife making Thanksgiving food, created using the ipad garageband app.

Turkey

Long Sit

I limited myself to 30 minutes from start to finish on this song. I was aiming for a cinematic kind of feel and wanted to keep it fairly minimal.

Manchester

Acle from Tesseract remixed You and yours and incorporated his own style into it, the result is awesome.

You and yours (Acle Kahney Remix)

Experimenting with new pickups courtesy of Stonewall Pickups. This is a custom H90 set in my 2004ish Les Paul Studio. I hope to expand on this riff sometime soon.

CK2014 04

This is the song "Hello" without any effects on it and at normal speed and forwards. It is a single track of guitar that I played extemporaneously using a volume pedal, MXR Carbon Copy, and EHX Freeze.

"Hello" Unprocessed Guitar

This didn't fit in with anything else on Beacons.

Beacons Idea - March 10, 2010

I never figured out what to do with this one. On the plus side, the riff at the end turned into the intro riff to "Push it way up!".

Beacons Idea - June 8, 2010

I forgot about this riff! Found it last night after transferring some files from an old external hard drive. This was written around the time I was writing music for what would become "The Map is Not the Territory" but it didn't end up fitting in.

June 11, 2008

I made this with the Auxy app while flying from Chicago to St. Louis.

45 Minutes in a Window Seat

2016 03 29

2016 03 27

Someone sent me this in April 2013 and I don't know who.

Random fan medley called "EPIC DRUM TONE"

I wrote this song using a 7-string Ibanez that I borrowed from a friend. It was the second song written for what I would later start calling "Cloudkicker" but I never finished it.

Here's the pattern in case you were wondering:
0 1 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 0 2 0 2 0 3 3 0 3 0 3

August 27, 2006

I lost interest in this idea so it didn't make the cut.

Fade Idea - March 24, 2012

I think I was listening to a lot of Thomas Newman when I made this.

Fade Idea - March 8, 2012

This song gets to a place and then stays there for a while. I didn't know where to take it.

Fade Idea - February 3, 2012

This one was really close to making it but for whatever reason a cohesive direction never materialized.

Fade Idea - January 19, 2012

Another idea that just barely didn't make it.

Fade Idea - January 5, 2012

This is the last "hidden" track on Fade without the effect track.

Cloud-hidden, Whereabouts Unknown

Signal/Noise

Early Cloudkicker 1 "Blizzard"

Early Cloudkicker 2

Early Cloudkicker 3

Early Cloudkicker 4

2007 01 04 - Intro

2007 01 05

2007 05 09

I put these songs on the Cloudkicker Myspace page as I wrote them. This was in the days before I discovered EZ & Superior Drummer.

To me, "States" meant different states of mind as well as different territorial states, as I had recently moved from California to Ohio.

The Discovery Demos - States

The parenthetical title didn't make it to the album. It's in reference to this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flammarion_engraving

The Discovery Demos - The Discovery (Où le Ciel et la Terre se Touchent...)

The ebow intro didn't make the cut but it's pretty cool. I also changed the name because I thought a Simpsons reference would be too silly.

Ben Sharp

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