Woke up one day in late 1993/early 94 in a sublime state of mind. While my brain had not quite yet recalibrated to it's normal daytime rhythm, I improvised and arranged this melodic ambient piece. 

Lonely Desert Sky (Original Version)

A short, elegant dream-like marimba piece with strings and choir from 1993,

Marble Bust

Composed in late 1993 at Phil's house on the 01/W and bass guitar. Cyclical melodic bass line. Since these were home recordings direct to cassette, I did this in one take without editing anything out or re-recording. I plan to re-record this one day once I have a new bass.

White Sands

Remix arranged in Cool Edit Pro / Audition back in the very early 2000's. I've played this on monitor speakers and in the car, but the only place it really works is with headphones. So grab some headphones, get undistracted, and listen. 

Voices of Babylon (Timeflow Remix)

Back in the late 90's, Toby Kaufmann-Buhler and I would visit the music lab at USF. They had multiple piano rooms in a fluorescent-lit, concrete walled building. One day I brought my mic and tape deck and we recorded in a room with two pianos for about an hour, just improvised. For example, Toby would play something percussive or menacing, while I would play free-form randomly or melodically and we would bounce off each other - it just evolved from there. This is a short segment from a moment that stood out on the tape. It happened this way purely by chance.

EvilUSF

This was a mind bending piece by Mad Dog Charm, (Michael Rywalt), my younger brother, back when I had a login to Virtual Polygon, and we communicated every day, multiple times per day within a purely virtual phenomenonenonen. During a maternal visit to my place, Mike got a sample of a bass line I improvised and set it to drum and bass, something of a study in digital cut-up similar to Atom Heart. a.k.a Uwe Schmidt. "Timeflow" was my virtual stage name at the time.

Mad Dog Charm - Aberrant Waves (Feat Timeflow)

This photo depicts my entire setup from Sept 1990-July 1992. Casio CZ-1 as controller synth, Roland U-200 module and a tape deck from 1983. MMT-8 sequencer missing in action, but it was definitely there. This is in my friend Phil's room in Sept 1991, where I arranged this quick hip hoppy, instrumental pop piece. 

Hip Hop In Phil's Room

3rd Reich

Another piece that just happened in the moment. I'm not sure how these really come about. The music tells me I could be doing this every day, if not for time. How my life has become so full, brimming with life (new baby of 9 months), work (incredibly busy, unmanageably so), maintenance (exceptional amount to keep cars and house going, catching up), death (one of my dogs is close to dying) but.... but... back in 1999 there was a lot less on my plate. Even if there seemed to have been more. I had just enough space to get a few things in musically. I'd already experienced Eno. But, I was in a good frame of mind at Whisperwood.  The agony of uncertainty, the ecstasy of clarity. of For a short amount of time I pushed my mind focus, and my reflective sense, on some new ideas. Quintin was a 2 year old at this time. Maybe there was this window between being intensely focused on protecting a baby and actually raising a child. And maybe, just before so many big changes, I could just quietly breathe for a moment in solitude? Does this call for meditation? Yes, it's subtle. Did I need to sing? Did I need a fucking beat? No. I let it go. It's just the way it should be. It's exactly how I felt at that moment and no more.

Warm

From the early 2000's, done in CEP or Audition, Best appreciated if you are familiar with the original from 1979 by Simple Minds.

Ian V. Rywalt