I'm not currently working on this track but I should go back and finish it. It's from Dec. 2013, when I was living in Melbourne, Australia. The main reason for posting it is for an "art challenge" by one of my facebook friends. Theoretically there will be 4 more such postings (1/day for 5 days) and I don't have any finished products so they will all be messy but hopefully enjoyable demos / sketches.

Entanglement(S)

Day 2, Sound 2 of my 5-day art challenge levied by my friend Tora in Facebook. This version was recorded in Feb. 2014 during a light snowfall (sadly, neither my equipment or my recording skills are good enough to capture the sound of snow falling but the general ambiance behind the guitar is ok). Silly for me to attempt to perform anything with cold hands, but there you have it. Though she won't remember, Tora has heard the 1st section of this before, nearly a decade ago so that's another nice tie-in to this week's challenge. Day 2's theme is "transformation" (in Facebook I also upload separate images & texts as part of the 5-day challenge). Enjoy.

Dear, Black Gold - Changeling (recorded Outside, Morning, Light Snow, 2nd Full Take)

Another of my most recent scratch demos, soon to be resurrected. Uploaded for Day 3's sound entry to the 5-day Art Challenge given to me by my friend, Tora. Recorded outside in the back yard when I was living in Melbourne, Australia a year ago. Enjoy. Comments are always welcome

Dear, Black Gold - untitled (Jan. 19, 2014)

Day 4 Sound 4 of the 5-day Art Challenge given to me by my friend Tora in Facebook. This track was recorded in the mid-late 90s at a time I wasn't playing or recording much at all but one day I decided to play and record all the songs I was currently practicing, basically about 40 minutes worth of music. I haven't played this song that much since then (typically). But it's on the resurrection list.

Dear, Black Gold - untitled (circa mid-late 1990s)

My final sound installment of the 5-day Art Challenge given to me in Facebook by my friend, Tora. I did actually start relearning this track late 2013/early 2015 while I was living in Melbourne but I hadn't yet found any of those recordings. I also think I accidentally left the music notes there.  Either way, it's not so difficult that I can't relearn it properly once I figure out the tuning. I was fortunate to find this version on a cassette comp I made back in the day.

As with almost all my tracks, there is intention for them to be far more than acoustic pieces, even though I completely love the sound of an acoustic by itself. It's just that at a certain point in the mid-90s I wanted to make sure my songs / tracks sounded good on acoustic so I pretty much stopped writing songs on electric and started writing acoustically almost exclusively. The flip side to that is for nearly 2 decades I've barely touched electric guitars, amps or pedals (and actually for a significant time in the late 90s-early 00s I barely touched my acoustic) so now I'm in the process of re-introducing myself to that world. Blah, blah. Enjoy the track. Comments and critiques welcome.

Dear, Black Gold - untitled (circa 1995 - 96)

Originally developed as an "Instagram minute video" track. It's a good excercise to come up with something that's only a minute long. Of course that wasn't enough so I had to extend it, take my time. Allow the rain. That and I haven't posted to Soundcloud in like a year, so it's a perfect time to get back to posting my oft-never finished ideas. Images & sounds by DBG/ALC copyright 2016

Home Demos 09.30.16

Only Sleeping

My most recent track going through changes. recorded live on tascam dr-100 mkII; image by me, macro detail of a beetle

Dear Black Gold - Only Sleeping (late Oct. 2016 revisions, 1122)

I enjoy recording outside and allowing transient sounds, natural sounds, incidental sounds and elemental sounds be a part of the composition. Often these sounds will inform the pace of the previously prepared piece, and occasionally even the composition itself (though not in this particular case; just the pace was affected). Music and photography by Dear, Black Gold.

Dear, Black Gold - Only Sleeping (acoustic, Outdoors, 1151)

Just another 1 minute exercise for Instagram turned into slightly longer piece. Thinking of my babysister who died back in the 80s.

Home Demos 2016.12.15

Dear, Black Gold - One Minute Requiem (extended) (for Andrea)

A section of sound taken from a longer section of sound. Added additional tracks from the original larger piece and abstracted them some. Headphone listening a plus. Mostly done as an exercise to get off my ass and do something creative of which 2018 has not been. Also did a very basic 1 minute video for instagram. That was actually the impetus. I needed something creative to put up on Instagram. What a loser. All music & image copyright 2017-18 Anthony L. Childs