Live set from a Sonic Circuits event at Pyramid Arts Center.

Piece inspirations: heartbeats, outer space, overtones, Tibetan Buddhist chant.

Equipment: electric guitar, contact microphone, various pedals, larynx.

Notes: in situ, the vocalisations were much louder and reverberant as they would match the natural frequencies of the space. This doesn't come through in this mixer-sourced recording, but it sounded really nice.

Bruxist Manifesto (live) - 2013 07 13

Instrumentation: music box, various effects.

Disintegration HBD (For William)

Do Cicadas Dream In The Key Of C?

A piece written and performed for Experimental Guitar Night at on 29 June 2022 at Sprezzatura in Pittsburgh, PA (complete with beeping sounds from various kitchen equipment).

Played on an acoustic guitar, mic-ed and put through various effects. Inspired by the American Primitive recordings made by all the brilliant guitarists on Takoma Records over the years

Sound was recorded in mono into a smartphone microphone, so the audio quality is as could be expected.

Transfiguration Aborted (Live at eXperimental Guitar Night, 29 June 2022)

All lived-played, no looping (to maximize serendipitous moments).

Khartoum

Percussion: contact microphone on a Little Big Muff pedal, fed through same.
Bass: human voice via bone conduction
Guitar: Danelectro Hodad through Boss SD-1 and Digitech RP-60

Xyphoid process and the resonance of an aluminum cuboid

Repossessed

A semi-synthetic convergence of acoustic sound generation and electrical manipulations, often with a guitar-focused input. A little musique; a little concrète.

Influences: Windy Weber, Alan Licht, Laurie Anderson, William Basinski, Bibio, Detroit techno, industrial, minimalism.

Man Machine Method