Aurora Onset

Interval In Sunlight

Sketch 12

distant boat

Explore 5th intervals, with natural harmonics

Forest 01

Trying to find the edges in a drone universe.

Photo by Daniel Seßler on Unsplash.

Forest 02

Forest 03 - drone track, primary voice modular synth, with field recordings.

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Forest 03

My submission for the July 2022 Sim Selection monthly challenge of Benn Jordan's discord community.

Theme is 'Survival on Mars' with
keywords: worthless, broken and 11/16. 

I think my track may be more in 11/4 (two bars 4/4, one bar 3/4 for the main theme), but it's all in fun anyway.

Photo by Who’s Denilo ? on Unsplash

Air Is Thin

My submission for the August 2022 Sim Selection monthly challenge of Benn Jordan's discord community.

Theme is 'Trust' with keywords: brown, wise.

Optional Challenge: Find someone on the Discord server willing to give you a recorded sample of anything they choose. I received the guitar harmonics sample from Jay Nornec in the Discord community. Jay's music is available here: https://nornec.bandcamp.com/

Photo by José Martín Ramírez Carrasco on Unsplash

Wisdom of Crowds

Darker forest series track. Too much 'melody' for drone? Any comments appreciated. 

Photo by Phoebe Strafford on Unsplash

Forest 04

My submission for the September 2022 Sim Selection monthly challenge of Benn Jordan's discord community.

Theme is 'Abandoned' with keywords: one, civil.

Optional Challenge: Create a piece of music at 106 bpm, in the key of G, with tuning at A440 

Photo by Kajetan Sumila on Unsplash

donte tu (where you?)

An experiment in using generative elements during the compositional process. Sections of this track are generative, within Ableton Live. The track name, A. saccharum, is the scientific name for the Sugar Maple tree.

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A. saccharum

Abstract B

My submission for the October 2022 Sim Selection monthly challenge of Benn Jordan's discord community.

Theme is 'Ancient Gods' with keywords: far, low.

Optional Challenge: Describe a being with sound/music whom would otherwise be indescribable by words.

NOTES: This challenge proved difficult. I created six tracks, but none of them captured what I had in mind. In the end, went with an uptempo track that works well over one of my favorite movie scenes: The chase scene in 'Jason and the Argonauts' when Talos comes to life.

Remembering Ray Harryhausen, and his wonderful movie creations. Happy Halloween.

Talos

Dimension 37

My submission for the November 2022 Sim Selection monthly challenge of Benn Jordan's discord community.

No prompts, no keywords. Use the bass line played by Benn Jordan in any way you want.

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Night Train NYC

My submission for the December 2022 Sim Selection monthly challenge of Benn Jordan's discord community.

Theme: A Crack In Time
Keywords: guarded, helpless
Optional Challenge: Time is of the essence. Time is an illusion. Time is money. Time flies.

My compositional idea was to represent multiple time references, all moving forward at their own rate. Inspiration from a Stravinsky score, as well as other modern composers.

Perceptual Gate

The Strand

My submission for the March 2023 Sim Selection monthly challenge of Benn Jordan's discord community.

Theme: Dice
Keywords: thirsty, five
Optional Challenge: Write the hidden bonus track for your favorite album. Dig deep and really think about what 'favorite' means to you.

My direction was to create an electronic track featuring drone, but also elements in the style of loscil. This track was created with my modular system, as well as electric guitar and drone elements from Ableton Live.

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Westnorth

My submission for the May 2023 Sim Selection monthly challenge of Benn Jordan's discord community. 

Theme: Among The Canopy 

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Ant Talk

A short sketch exploring sound collage and mixing analog and digital processing. How many turtles can be stacked? Captured this as a signpost, as I go further down this path. What do you hear here? 


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Reflection 29

My submission for the June 2023 Sim Selection monthly challenge of Benn Jordan's discord community.

Theme: Salt 
Keywords: violent, civil 

Photo by Koshu Kunii on Unsplash.

lb salt

illusions of glandular

A sketch I did in Spring 2023. Listening back now in the Fall after not hearing it for a long time, realize that I like the flow combining ambient ideas with rhythmic elements.

I think it works in my Forest series of ambient and drone tracks.

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Forest 05

Transformation of my track Forest 05 while experimenting.


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Transform 1

My submission for the October 2023 Sim Selection monthly challenge of Benn Jordan's discord community.

Theme: Window
Keywords: five, physical

Optional Challenge: Create a track that changes seasons at some point. "Changes Seasons" is whatever you think it means. 

Photo by Pedruzzi Marco on Unsplash.

reflect-indirect

10302023

My submission for the November 2023 Sim Selection monthly challenge of Benn Jordan's discord community.

Theme: Helios
Keywords: tender, fluctuating

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east to west

Another experiment with taking existing material and processing it through max/msp . . .


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Fragment 121

My submission for the March 2024 Sim Selection monthly challenge of Benn Jordan's discord community.

Theme: The Tea House
Keywords: public, blushing

Photo by Cassi Josh on Unsplash.

Tea for T

Television. Telephone. Telecaster. TeleHat!

First tune recorded with my new Telecaster. My submission for the April 2024 Sim Selection monthly challenge of Benn Jordan's discord community.

Theme: Under The Apple Tree
Keywords: faulty, boring

Photo by Jason Hawke on Unsplash.

TeleHat

Ambient and electronic music. Hardware, software, acoustic, and electric instruments. Dipping my toe in hardware modular synthesis. Might still work on a Bandcamp release. . .

Fractalint

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