Pieces conceived in late summer and early fall of 2021.

Ruminations

Rumination #1 for gong, blue, black, and white electronic instruments. Recorded to video in Naperville IL USA on July 11th 2021.

Sunday July 11th 2021 Rumination #1

Rumination #2 for gong, black, and white electronic instruments. Recorded to video in Naperville IL USA on July 16th 2021.

Friday July 16th 2021 Rumination #2

Rumination #3 for black and white electronic instruments (DotCom Modular and Moog Voyager). Recorded to video on July 21st 2021 in Naperville IL USA.

Wednesday July 21st 2021 Rumination #3

Number 7 in the ruminations series. This one was done using the Lyra-8, Mellotron, Wiard 300 Series Modular, Haken ContinuuMini, and processed rin gong. It was recorded in Naperville IL USA on October 18th 2021 in real time.

Monday October 18th 2021 Rumination #7

Rumination #8 for processed Rin Gong, Lyra-8, Mellotron, Haken ContinuuMini, and Behringer 2600. Recorded October 20th 2021 in Naperville IL USA.

Wednesday October 20th 2021 Rumination #8

Rumination #9 for processed rin gong and white and grey electronic instruments. Recorded (to video) October 22nd 2021 in Naperville IL USA.

Friday October 22nd 2021 Rumination #9

Rumination #10 for gong, rin gong, Behringer 2600, Mellotron, and Lyra-8. Recorded to video in Naperville IL USA on October 26th 2021.

Tuesday October 26th 2021 Rumination #10

Rumination #11 for Mellotron, Lyra-8, Wiard Series 300 modular system, processed Rin Gong, and selected Behringer System 55 modules. Recorded to video at the studio in Naperville IL USA on October 31st 2021.

Sunday October 31st 2021 Rumination #11

Rumination #12 for Rin Gong, Black, and White electronic instruments. Recorded to video on November 2nd 2021 in Naperville IL USA.

Tuesday November 2nd 2021 Rumination #12

I am, on the maternal side, Haplogroup T
(Subclade T2) and, on the paternal side,
Haplogroup Q (M242)!
I have been walking the earth since the
early '50s. I am an ex-mill-rat,
ex-(Calumet)region-rat, ex-chemist,
dead-mathematician, ex-programmer,
musician, composer, earth-walker.
I have two musical directions, I play,
perform, and teach traditional Japanese
classical music for the shakuhachi
(an end blown bamboo flute), and I play,
compose, and perform experimental
electronic music. All the electronic music I
compose and perform is and can be done
in real-time (i.e. I don't use multi-tracking
or computer manipulation for my compositions).
Whenever I record anything, either electronic
or on the shakuhachi, it is done in real-time
just as it would have been done on the stage
or in an intimate setting.

Ruminations

mafirman