Three Changes is about realizing and accepting changes in life. A relationship ended, I left a job, and I got another one. Like always, these changes all seemed to happen at once. I wondered if my life would ever see days of less change, and how I would feel about that. 

This is primarily a granular synthesis piece. The source material comes from an awesome exhibit at the Exploratorium on Pier 15 in San Francisco: a piano soundboard was setup vertically and a strobe light shone on these vertical strings to clearly see standing waves. The rhythmic clicks in this piece come from that light as it turns on and oﬀ. The strummed piano wires thunder in the bass register. The piano samples come from my own performance of original music that's totally derivative of Philip Glass, and Webern's Variations for Piano, Op. 27.

This was performed at CCRMA Transitions on October 10, 2013, featuring a 20.6 immersive speaker array spatialized with Ambisonics. It was written for 8 channels. An early version of this piece is also on Vimeo, here: https://vimeo.com/68817812.

Three Changes (FULL)

Rick Dana Corner Case SpringStreetStudio - 8_13_23, 10.21 PM

Jinny Royer - Singer/Songwriter
Steven Quiry (Muzartis, Inc.)- Producer

Revisionary Blues
I've got the blues now
my clearance was red
my laptop was subpoenaed
and turned over to the feds
your guilt is a given
If they’re looking for drugs
And when I met the task force
they're dressing  like thugs

it's a revisionary era
the church is mating with the state
intolerance is called for
because heaven will not wait

I've paid my dues now
I want to relax
better check out the statutes
on all those unnatural acts
my neighbors are getting nervous
my kids could turn me in
I could be convicted
of first degree sin..

it's a revisionary era
the church is mating with the state
intolerance is called for
because heaven will not wait

the red scare of the fifties
the backlash of today
Pundits know what’s best for me
and how I'll gonna to pay
they'll try to hypnotize me
with slogans and cheap lies
alarming "facts" with no support
just look into their eyes

it's a revisionary era
the church is mating with the state
intolerance is called for
for heaven you can hate

Copywrite 2015 - Jinny Royer, Rick Kleffel

Revisionary Blues

Draft Soul 2015 - 07 - 17

Jinny Royer - Singer/Songwriter
Steven Quiry (Muzartis) - Producer

Shadow Dancing

Moon he's shining overhead
Woodsmoke drifting through the air
You can hear the music 
from down the hill
Up here all alone 
the spirits dance the wind it moans
look up see shadows on the wall

You're like darkness and taste  just like light
Your spring water to cool me down and fire to set me right
I found your eyes just as you found me
Set the shadows dancing, 

Night breeze stills and I can feel 
The heat begin to rise
It's tangled words and skin to skin 
Your kisses catch my cries
Fire racing through my viens
The air's too thick to breath
It feels so right being here
Like something from a dream

You're like darkness and taste  just like light
Your spring water to cool me down and fire to set me right
I look to find you eyes just as you found me
Setting shadows dancing

You can hear the music from down the hill
Up here all alone 
the spirits dance the wind it moans
Look up see
shadows on the wall

You're like the darkness and taste  just like light
Your spring water to cool me down and fire to set me right
I found your eyes just as you found me
Set the shadows dancing

Copywrite 2015 - Jinny Royer 

Shadow Dancing

Two tracks using Linnstrument played by Dana
one w/ Nylon String voice, 
one w/ Amp'd solo voice
Two tracks played by Matt Isaacson; bass & drums

Aspen Trail Rocks - With Drums And Bass - 2016 - 0613 2331

Rainy Day is an original song and arrangement by Jinny Royer.
Copyright 2016
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Rainy Day

Here is "Thinking of You" by Pets Gone Wild, Danna Massie, Rick Kleffel and myself, jamming live at  the Woodstockhausen Festival in the Santa Cruz Mountains on a beautiful starry evening under the redwoods.

Thinking of you live

I rolled 11 & 60, which gave me 6 pitches, and 4 durations totaling a 4/4 measure. This repeats rather quickly in only three measures. So the material was rather limited to work with.

So worked by elimination - pulling out notes from the line and distributing them around three instruments: Hocket, sometimes clear sometimes abstract.

It was pretty much done when the connection to games (D&D, dice) struck me, and had the inspiration to add the kids. Balarrrga!!!!

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Children playing outside during lunch break (Amsterdam The Netherlands) recorded by Yuval:
 https://freesound.org/people/Yuval/sounds/184449/

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More on this 298th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Dungeons & Drum Machines: Make a track with two rolls of a 20-sided die — at:
https://disquiet.com/0298/

Major thanks to Jason Wehmhoener for initiating this project, and for co-plotting it.

More on the Disquiet Junto at:
https://disquiet.com/junto/

Bagatelle 0298  (disquiet0298)

This is a recording of my live set from CCRMA Modulations 2013.  It features three new tracks, which I hope to release soon.  Performed with Ableton Live 8, Livid Code & Novation Launchpad with custom control scripts, Nord G2, Elektron MonoMachine, and Elektron MachineDrum.

Live set from CCRMA Modulations 2013

I love playing music when I manage to make time for it...

Rick Dana Corner Case SpringStreetStudio - 8_13_23, 10.21 PM

Danamassie

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