Monome

written for an evening of various wonder, with words of poets in mind. and ears. musically attempting a different approach, tripping all over a ukelele, and so lucky to have the opportunity to record this with ezra buchla playing viola and brian crabtree singing falsetto.

"People who know you from an impossible situation don’t know how to behave when the situation no longer obtains.
“Are you also?” "And now?”
Like being crushed by God."    -anna moschcovakis

"The world. I don't know. We sink. We are awkward. We lean. We fall into doors. We sink into doors."   -joshua beckman

"You always have to guess.
And you always guess wrong. And
when you say your guess. I change. 
I guess I'm with you. 
But I don't know
where I am."      -aaron kunin

are you also

a channel. a sound. an inlet. a turning point. a narrow passage of water connecting two larger bodies of water. 

or maybe just a sketch using the live sampling of a ukelele and an accordion with mlrv and a monome 128.

strait

today deep inside the forest, high up in the trees, the sound of water falling where there was none. 

"here is no water but only rock. rock and no water.... but If there were water and no rock, If there were rock and also water. a spring. a pool among the rock. If there were the sound of water only...." 

these thoughts on this solstice. and words from T.S. Elliot's  "what the thunder said"

the hermit thrush

"where are you friend?"
"here" replied the wolf. 

a recent live recording. thanks to tehn (b.crabtree) for singing along.  

wolves waited

a satellite, an outpost, an instrument in synchronous rotation with the earth. a watcher, a traveler, an extraterrestrial deity employed by hidden forces. mother culture brought from the skies. messages sent and received by way of interplanetary reverberations. all an attempt to please the celestial deities of weather and harvest with musical charms.  

performed on a rainy day under a gold gilded sky light at Better; For Living in San Francisco.

hollow moon rings like bell

dear human machine disquiet0223-layeredsameness

recorded live. three tracks: cycle III, eastern settlement, northern atlantic oscillation.
see <a href="http://vimeo.com/33907099">http://vimeo.com/33907099</a> and http://vimeo.com/33947865


111111-three-sketches

three magnets

the sea

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eighteenth

2001. made in southern california. thrift store records, fake synthesized rhodes, gummy beats. latter drums by dj still life.

free trade (misused language)

cautious optimism

100903live

101012

live recording from outdoor performance at LACMA for the machine project field guide. 2player-mlr, two monome 64, operated by b.crabtree and k.cain. all source material recorded in first few seconds, completely improvised. recording by m.goike (great thanks).

lacma15nov2008

three instances of madrona labs' aalto performed live in one take.

also see https://vimeo.com/62272562

incandescent

songs for a scrapped vessel headed for a ship breaking. less a romantic burial at sea and more a final journey to shore for a precarious and caustic dismantling. 

Monome

The Brazen House