The Secret Society of Internet Jazzers performing Neil Alexander's "Whisper of Angels" in Petaluma, CA on May 24, 2014. More tracks from the date are coming soon...

Personnel:
Neil Alexander: synths and electronics
Rob Michael: guitar
Darin Wilson: piano
Steve Uccello: bass
Mike Freitas: drums

SSIJ - Whisper of Angels

This synth-like sound was coming from some sort of electrical box on the street (see picture). I recorded it with my phone, and added no other processing. It was a busy street, so there's lots of other noises in the background.

Ambient music from an electrical box

The Alien Ball Theory Part 2

Recorded at an open-air market near the Bastille Metro station in Paris - July 2015

Open Air Market in Paris

Just playing around creating ambient tracks using Sonic Pi (http://sonic-pi.net/). The code used to generate this piece is available here: https://gist.github.com/darinwilson/f4b9a0ecaced5649edee

Ambient Experiment with Sonic Pi

HTTP status codes read over a bed of elevator music. Because that needed to happen.

Entry from the 2016 Song-A-Day challenge - http://songaday.netscrap.com

Status

Just trying out an alternate harmonization by my buddy Rob Michael. See his blog post about it here: http://www.atmosmusic.com/wordpress/2011/12/my-gift-to-you-a-christmas-guitar-lesson/

O Little Town Of Bethlehem

This is a generative piece coded with Sonic Pi (http://sonic-pi.net), and played through Ableton Live. It uses randomly-selected pitches and durations to create shifting chords and textures. This is only 4 minutes long, but it could go on for along time without repeating.

The source code for this piece is available here: https://gist.github.com/darinwilson/6d38f7697aa52a006b03cc2df5acf31c

CPU Dreams

This is by request from several kind YouTube commenters. This is my score for a spot for the Partnership for a Drug-Free America which ran back in 1994 (and for a few years after, I'm told). You can watch the full video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHH1-JFaDOk 

Long Way Home

Opening track from the album *Impromptu* featuring bassist Steve Uccello and drummer Jake Wood, available here http://darinwilson.bandcamp.com/album/impromptu

I wrote "One For Bill" after reading *How My Heart Sings*, Peter Pettinger's biography of the pianist Bill Evans. Late in his career, Evans wrote a tune for his producer Helen Keane called "One For Helen". This is "One For Bill", written with admiration and profound gratitude.  

You can download a lead sheet for this piece here: http://darinwilson.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/one_for_bill_by_darin_wilson.pdf 

One For Bill

Piano improvisation for the Song-A-Day 2020 project

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