You're The One For Me

This is the sound board from our 2013 Bear Creek Music Festival set.  Please comment, share, and enjoy!

1. Gimme Good
2. Wonder
3. Smoke it
4. Noah D - Just Right (Sounduo
Remix)
5. Declaration of Future Dub
6. Make it Pretty
7. Pathway
8. Fuzzy Logic
9. Turbulence
10. 88 Degrees
11. The Spell
12. Predator
13. Shut it Down
14. Bass a Science - Crazy World (Sounduo remix)
15. Trigga
16. Fyah Bun Dem
17. Murderah

FREE DOWNLOAD LINK:  https://www.facebook.com/Sounduo/app_220150904689418

Sounduo Live @ Bear Creek 2013

Johnnyrandom “Bespoken”

Available On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/bespoken-single/id762672957
Available on Bandcamp: https://johnnyrandom.bandcamp.com/track/bespoken

All Sounds Created, Recorded & Composed Exclusively By Playing Bicycles:

Rims - Hit With Mallets
Pedals - Spun, Hammered
Spd Cleats - Clipped In & Out
Shoes - Velcro Opened & Boa Dialed
Handlebar - Open Tubing Hit With Hands
Front Brake Calipers - Engaged & Stopped
Floor Pump - Valve Head Levered, Inflated, Deflated
Tires - Hit With Mallets, Picked, Air Valves Released & Inflated
Derailleur & Brake Cables - Tuned, Bowed, Ebowed & Picked
Disc Brake Rotors - Hit With Mallets & Rubbed Together
Rear Derailleur Pulleys - Engaged, Forward & Reversed
Saddle And Seat Post - Brushed & Finger Tapped
Chainrings - Engaged, Forward & Reversed
Brake Levers - Engaged & Released
Freehub Splines - Spun & Clicked
Spokes - Tuned, Bowed & Picked
Chain - Grazed With A Slide
Shifters - Clicked

Special Thanks To:

Bojana Jamborcic, Ana Jamborcic, Sean Hyrich, Devin Whetstone, Lisa Mishima, Shawn Hatfield, Mark Pitchford, Eben Carr, Sean Mclaughlin, Frank Aldorf, Randall Stowell, Andrea Koval, Jason Johnson, Mélanie Skriabine, Ólafur Kolbeinn Guðmundsson, Brian Kemler, Jean Sharkey, Blake Bogosian And Tim Prebble.

All Music Written, Recorded, Produced And Mixed By Johnnyrandom. Mastered By AudibleOddites. Photography By Johnnyrandom © 2013. Artwork Design By Lisa Mishima. © 2013. All Rights Reserved. Unauthorized Duplication Is A Violation Of Applicable Laws. ℗ & © 2013 Johnnyrandom

A Preview Of "Bespoken"

Persian Music

McNally Smith X-tet plays "Flood" by Snarky Puppy

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/not-going-home/id920991632?i=920991754

Not Going Home

For my birthday this year, I wanted to get together with some friends, make some amazing music, and share it with the world. As fate would have it, the death of my laptop forced me to create all of this in 2 days. Working on this project non-stop in order to finish on birthday present was well worth the result!

I approached this EP as an experiment that drew from artists like Karriem Riggins, Robert Glasper and Vulfpeck; artists that embrace organic improvisation. Most of the songs were written and arranged in the process of tracking. I then produced the album as a series of glimpses: fragments of songs fused together to better tell the stories ensconced within.

Thank you for supporting my artistic endeavors!

Recorded at Mother of All Music Studio, Saint Paul MN 6/8/15

All songs written by:

Greg Byers - Electric Cello, Violoncello, Double Bass, Bass Guitar
Kevin Gastonguay - Wurlitzer, Synth
Tyler Kloewer - Drumset

Tracked by Nate Way 

Mixed, Mastered and Produced by Greg Byers

Glimpse

We begin our 2nd season of the Creative Strings Podcast live at the 2015 Creative Strings Workshop in Columbus, OH. Christian sits down with 4 of the hottest young Creative String players (dubbed "the Young Guns") and discusses their various practice techniques, exercises and moving between various fiddle styles.

Meet the Young Guns

Eli Bishop

From the age of 3 until 11, Eli studied the Suzuki violin method. After completing the eighth book of the method, he began studying traditional classical music under the instruction of Cornelius Heard at the Blair School of Music, which was part of Vanderbilt University. Under Connie Heard’s instruction, Eli learned to play standard classical violin repertoire. At the age of 16, Eli’s interests shifted from classical to western swing. At this point, Eli began studying with Nashville legend, Buddy Spicher and spent the next year mastering western swing music.
While enrolled at the Nashville School of the Arts, Eli studied swing and jazz music on the violin and also began playing the guitar. Now a sophomore in high school, Eli’s grew more and more interested in jazz music, specifically bebop. A close friend at his high school suggested he learn the tunes, “Donna Lee” and “Freedom Jazz Dance”. That was what ignited the desire in Eli to become competent in this style of music.

Alex Hargreaves

Violinist Alex Hargreaves is an active performer, playing on stages around the world including Austin City Limits, A Prairie Home Companion, Grand Ole Opry, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, Monterey Jazz Festival, Panama Jazz Festival, Bonnaroo, Newport Jazz Festival, and the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, as well as venues in the UK, France, Italy, Canada, and South Korea. He is a member of world-renowned mandolinist Mike Marshall’s Big Trio, along with bassist Paul Kowert (Punch Brothers) and has toured with the trio extensively following the 2008 release of their self-titled album on Adventure Music. Matt Glaser, artistic director of Berklee College of Music, American Roots Program, states simply, “Truly, Alex Hargreaves is the best young jazz violinist in America.”



Mike Barnett

I’ve been having a blast travelin’ and performing around the country and internationally with heroes of mine. Having grown up in Nashville, I have a special place in my heart for bluegrass and country music. Fiddle camps- Mark O’Connor String Conference, Christian Howes’ Creative Strings Workshop, Mt. Shasta Fiddle Camp---have provided a tremendous source of inspiration and exposure to incredible players from a wide variety of genres. The great bluegrass fiddler Aubrey Haynie inspired me to record my first CD “Lost Indian” when I was 14. One summer at Crystal Plohman’s ‘International Fiddle Camp’ at Vanderbilt, I had the great honor of working with Bobby Hicks, Buddy Spicher, and Vassar Clemens, three of the finest people and fiddlers there have ever been. They willingly showed me everything I could get my ears on.

Greg Byers

Since Greg started playing cello at 2 1/2 he has immersed himself in many branches of music, each cumulative aspect elevating the others: performance, composition, recording, education, entrepreneurship. His debut EP Some Dark, Beautiful Morning was orchestrated jazz fusion, but his newer work finds Greg as singer/songwriter; a nuanced interplay of natural and artificial, nature and technology. The language of music is unique in that it can provide every listener with similar yet distinct messages of truth, beauty, freedom; this has motivated Greg to express his own authenticity through precise songwriting and improvisation.



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"Young Guns" hottest young Creative String players talk practice - Creative Strings Podcast Ep 10

Aspire - Composed by Greg Byers

Javier Santiago - Piano, Rhodes

Greg Byers - Acoustic Cellos, Upright Bass,

Rodney Rocques - Drum Set 

Tracked by Elijah Deaton-Berg, Greg Byers and Javier Santiago at A-Mill Studios 

Mixed and Mastered by Greg Byers 

Produced by Greg Byers

RUCKUS EP

Aspire

I've been experimenting for some time, mostly at string camps, with the idea of a string quartet playing jazz tunes from a lead sheet, without an arrangement (commonly known as "faking"). Today I got around to recording a multi-tracked example, a "faked" chorus of 'Just Friends'.