This is a dark tribute, no wait, not a tribute. Tribute means I endorse it. Ok it's a commentary on the tragic May 2014, Isla Vista CA, shooting where seven people died, including the insane shooter. This track turned into more of a "what if Lemmy joined Ministry", but here it is. Was lots of fun to do, yes in a macabre way. But therapeutic.

Mountains Of Skulls

Day 16
song: Stardust Tempest
artist: Adam Theis MOBtet

personnel:
Adam Theis - trombone
Daniel Casares - sax
Kevin Wong - keys/synth bass
Joe Bagale - drums

    This piece suite was composed for a collaboration with the 18 piece Realistic Orchestra and 3 dancers for a “Space” themed show at Treat Social Club, an experimental performance-art series I started in 2013. I came up for many of the melodies and rhythms by using samples from the newly-available “NASA sound library”. For the structure I was inspired heavily by dancer Shannon Gaines (Vau De Vire) who provided me with an outline for what she was envisioning; she included tempos for various sections and numbers of bars and lengths for what she was thinking for her choreography. I think some composers might be uncomfortable with a dancer dictating these terms to them but for me it’s a challenge that I really enjoy and it always yields fresh new results.
    For the past year I’ve been performing this one live occasionally with my quartet and it’s always a really exciting challenge to navigate through the various sections, time changes, key changes, odd-length phrases etc…Everyone in the band gets to do their thing on this and I thought it would be a perfect song to capture live in the studio for this project. I’ll be posting video of this soon, when I have some “extra” time.

recorded 1/24/2016 ay Jazz Mafia Compound
engineered by Joe Bagale
mixed and mastered by Joe Bagale
©2016 Jazz Mafia Recordings

Stardust Tempest - Adam Theis MOBtet

Sleeping In Line

Commissioned by Boulder Bassoon Quartet member Brian Jack-this was the score of a piece meant to be played by Brian and fellow sax player Grant Larson. Haroun Serang produced the electric sounds at his studio and I recorded the bassoon part at my house.

Warlords Of Irony bassoon concerto for bassoon and Electric Music

Improbability Driven

I don't even remember recording this, but apparently in June 2012 I thought it'd be fun to do this. I heard this for the first time in almost 5 years today and laughed to tears at it. I hope you enjoy it, too!

Experiments

Angry

Angry - A Gentle Giant Experiment

Preparing for a live performance with audience participation at a conference in Linz. Recorded early in the morning after a night out on the Danube in a thunderstorm

Linz 0

Deconstructing a Dream

Things

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