written for an evening of various wonder, with words of poets in mind. and ears. musically attempting a different approach, tripping all over a ukelele, and so lucky to have the opportunity to record this with ezra buchla playing viola and brian crabtree singing falsetto.

"People who know you from an impossible situation don’t know how to behave when the situation no longer obtains.
“Are you also?” "And now?”
Like being crushed by God."    -anna moschcovakis

"The world. I don't know. We sink. We are awkward. We lean. We fall into doors. We sink into doors."   -joshua beckman

"You always have to guess.
And you always guess wrong. And
when you say your guess. I change. 
I guess I'm with you. 
But I don't know
where I am."      -aaron kunin

are you also

in the spirit of All Hallow's Eve and Día de Muertos an offering of sorts. a little round of "have you seen the ghost of john" in four voices.  ezra buchla, trent gill, brian crabtree and I hope that you and your dead are alive and well.

long white bones

a channel. a sound. an inlet. a turning point. a narrow passage of water connecting two larger bodies of water. 

or maybe just a sketch using the live sampling of a ukelele and an accordion with mlrv and a monome 128.

strait

this is a first go at using monome_sum with a variable brightness 128. thought i'd record the results and share the amazing possibilities of this soon to be released software. i'm basically able to switch between simplified versions of flin, polygome, mlr, corners, and step. sounds are created using only the built in synthesizer and provided samples. my mind is a little blown. 

perhaps something more refined in the coming days, but for now...

battlements

today deep inside the forest, high up in the trees, the sound of water falling where there was none. 

"here is no water but only rock. rock and no water.... but If there were water and no rock, If there were rock and also water. a spring. a pool among the rock. If there were the sound of water only...." 

these thoughts on this solstice. and words from T.S. Elliot's  "what the thunder said"

the hermit thrush

"where are you friend?"
"here" replied the wolf. 

a recent live recording. thanks to tehn (b.crabtree) for singing along.  

wolves waited

a satellite, an outpost, an instrument in synchronous rotation with the earth. a watcher, a traveler, an extraterrestrial deity employed by hidden forces. mother culture brought from the skies. messages sent and received by way of interplanetary reverberations. all an attempt to please the celestial deities of weather and harvest with musical charms.  

performed on a rainy day under a gold gilded sky light at Better; For Living in San Francisco.

hollow moon rings like bell

dear human machine disquiet0223-layeredsameness

tangle and fray

pitch drop experiment part II

pitch drop experiment part I

for whatever reason this song makes so much more sense to me slowed down. I think this pace is more of what the chords are asking for- rather than my previously frantic and out of time piano playing. and as ever, thank you for listening.

fold (tangle and fray in slow motion)

songs for a scrapped vessel headed for a ship breaking. less a romantic burial at sea and more a final journey to shore for a precarious and caustic dismantling. 

terms

curve

circling

fold

migratory returns and a live performance.  

allies

oceanus. the orchard nearby. the golden apples within.  the celestial navigation. and the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th magnitudes contained.  ukulele by Hannah Oatman.

ursa minor

a glitch ridden phone recorded first draft of a color of a feeling of three walls, three windows and a host of apparitions. inspired by The Changing Light at Sandover by James Merrill and propelled by music making along with brian crabtree.

softbits

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