Made possible by Mike Brosco. Inspired by Eno's Music for Airports, obviously.

Music For Reading, Chapter 1 (wav)

A tighter version of chapter 2. Thanks for Mike Brosco for audio and engineering support! Enjoy, if you will.

Music For Reading, Chapter 2

The third of a "theme and variations" trio of chapters composed from essentially much of the same material. In this chapter, I've included the gentle melodies of The Blue Fountain, which will appear in future installments. Hope you enjoy it. Thanks again to Mike Brosco for audio and engineering assistance, support, and inspiration!

Music For Reading Chapter 3

This piece includes audio recorded around my home in the jungle, manipulated cassette 4-track tracks recorded in Chicago in the mid-1990s, and hand-held tape recordings from Bowling Green, Ohio, in the mid-1980s. Other tracks were recorded more recently. This is the first in a series of pieces that will focus on layering tracks from different decades, periods, and geographical locations in my life--and will also incorporate voices of people close to me. My solo work is generally non-narrative, or minimally narrative, but this piece is specifically a narrative of a journey to several distinctly different places. But each listener will invent what those places are. The idea was also to make something that will reward multiple listens over long periods of time, mirroring the content of the work.

What Rough Beast Mix 7

Intro and Outro music for deerfrance's reading of George Saunders' The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip, broadcast spring 2023 on Roger Sayre's radio program Double-Dip Recess, on WFMU, Jersey City. Thanks to:  Roger Sayre; Jennifer B; Alex Smith; Anatoliy Drobakha (jaw harp and chanting).

Gappers Intro Music

The last of four chapters in the Music for Reading series. This one ends a bit darker.

Music For Reading 4

I don't know how to describe this track. You'll just have to listen.  If you have any idea what kind of music this is, please let me know. Thanks to Mike Brosco for doing a superb remastering job.

Clifton

Consists primarily of tongue drums and "treated" singing bowls. What if Steve Reich could swing? We'll never know, but here's my idea of what that might sound like. Inspired by Erik Hall's amazing new interpretation of Reich's Music for 18 Musicians.

Going Nowhere

I'm a drummer, a drum teacher, a literature professor, an English teacher, animal lover, and unrepentant music addict. Current listening favorites; Haruomi Hosono; Happy End; Steely Dan; William Basinski; Laura Nyro; The Necks; The Smile; Sonny Rollins; Jeff Beck; Yasuaki Shimizu; The Comet Is Coming; The Fall; Avishai Cohen (trumpeter/composer); Craig Leon; Alice Coltrane; Joni Mitchell; Hiroshi Yoshimura; The Bad Plus; Neko Case; Vashti Bunyan; Dungen; Can; Oscar Peterson; Yo La Tengo; Zoviet France; Art Pepper; Hu Vibrational; The Beta Band; Kruder and Dorfmeister; Stereolab; Tony Allen; Brian Eno; Max Richter; Radiohead; Gregory Isaacs; Tim Story.

Louie Simon

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