A reimagined version of the OutKast song with a jazz sextet.

Steven Ragsdale - alto sax
Nathan King - tenor sax
Mina Choi - piano
Dominic White - guitar
Jessica Ragsdale - drums
Chris Hon - bass

Hey Ya (OutKast Cover)

NAUTABOT's self entitled debut album.

Matt Williams - Vibraphone 
Alex Oliverio - Guitar 
Aleksey Izotov - Fender Rhodes 
Alex Meltzer - Upright Bass 
Jordan Tompkins - Drums 
Micah Hummel - Drums

Released December 22, 2015

Recorded by Jordan Tompkins 
Produced by NAUTABOT 
Mastered by Nate Wood at Kerseboom Mastering 

Artwork by Josh Brizuela (BASK)



02 - Ballad For Victor Wolf

Chillen- Sample
Written by Steven Cunningham

Chillen -sample

Steve Arnold (bass)
Keith Butler Jr. (drums)
Tyler Cassidy (saxophone and synthesizers)
Nelson Dougherty (guitar)
Andrew Frankhouse (saxohpone)

I Believe I Can Fly

Some selections from our triple bill at the Velvet Lounge in DC on June 20, 2018. Recordings by John Cook

Keith Butler Jr. - drums
Erol Danon - piano
Nelson Dougherty - guitar
Ryan Mulder - tenor saxophone
Steve Arnold - double bass

Second Nature

This is Fanoplane's (https://thefanoplaneproject.tumblr.com/) March 31, 2019 debut performance at the closing of "OPEN", Robin Bell’s ground-breaking exhibition of lights and projections. 

Throughout the evening, guerrilla projectionist Robin Bell mixed content live on installations exhibited on the grand staircase in the Flagg Building’s atrium. Dancers and musicians reacted to the installations, collaborating with the artist to reflect on the exhibition’s themes: the struggle we’re facing as a country and in the world of how to remain open and transparent. For Bell, the Flagg Building’s location also has enormous resonance: it is directly across from the security gate by which visitors enter the White House. OPEN, the welcoming, familiar letters that glow from a favorite restaurant or all-night corner store, informs the show.

As the exhibition inside closed, the event inspired participants to create and take with them openness to the outside world. In the words of Robin Bell, "Openness is not a destination at which a society can arrive and rest; it is a constant effort.”

Fanoplane:  In finite geometry, the Fano plane (after Gino Fano) is the finite projective plane of order 2. It is the finite projective plane with the smallest possible number of points and lines: 7 points and 7 lines, with 3 points on every line and 3 lines through every point. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fano_plane)

In this musical context, Fanoplane is an improvisational project focused on projecting the infinite gifts of the Muse. 

Fanoplane’s seed was planted in a duo performance by Bob Boilen and Ted Zook (https://soundcloud.com/uberepic-productions/cd-cellar-boilen-zook).  Following that, Bob sat in for a couple of performances with the Lost Civilizations experimental music project (http://lost-civilizations.tumblr.com/), then several performances with Heterodyne (https://the-heterodyne-project.tumblr.com/).

In addition to Bob Boilen and Ted Zook, Fanoplane’s March 31, 2019 debut at the Corcoran included Jerry Busher (percussion), Doug Kallmeyer (bass; electronics), Maggie Gilmore (vocalizations; flute) and Sonia Herrero (violin).  The performance was unscored, unrehearsed and improvised extemporaneously on the spot; it was the first time that all of these musicians performed together.

Heartfelt thanks to Robin Bell and everybody else who made this possible!

For additional information:  tedzook@hotmail.com

Fanoplane at the Corcoran

Fanoplane debut at the Corcoran ©℗ Boilen, Busher, Gilmore, Herrero, Kallmeyer & Zook

This was a track made in Ableton Live, with a 45-minute timer I set for finishing the beat and the mixing/processing.  First of many tracks to come!

01 - On The Clock

Drum solo on Steve Arnold's "Kilgore Trout." 

Live at Twins Jazz 8-11-19

Kilgore Trout Drum Solo Live At Twins 8 - 11 - 19

Pride (Video Game Soundtrack Demo)

Final Lap

Many times the music I write describes simple places, people, or things that I observe/experience around me. They can be meaningful, or not. I perceive these ideas as "sonic pictures", much more than full compositions.

Kilgore Trout Drum Solo Live At Twins 8 - 11 - 19

Keith Butler Music

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