Multi-tracked outtake from a recording session for a film, circa 1990.

The Hunting

Dance Of The Sullen Supermodels

song demo -- all instruments played (badly) by the composer

Passages In Different Rhythm

Bad Moon Boogie

This is the overture I composed for the one-act play "Minimum Rage" by Nancy Nixon and Russ Stich. The scathingly funny short play is in several scenes, each of which is preceded by an interlude which is simply this music, repeated faster, until by the last scene it goes by in seven seconds. MIDI playback, created on Noteworthy Composer.

Maximum Minimum Rage

An instrumental piece for dobro, only slightly hampered by the fact that I don't know how to play the dobro. Accompanied by a little keyboard bass. This was recorded many years ago in the basement of my parents' house on a cold, cold January night when I was wishing to be somewhere south of the border.

January Vacation

A dreamlike/nightmarish wordscape of my poem "All Young Lovers/No Rule Six," which I wrote shortly after a friend pondered what it must be like inside my mind. The actual elapsed time of the scene in the poem-- a young man skating down a sidewalk-- is only a few seconds, and is narrated by one version of my voice. A different version of my voice offers commentary and the thoughts and associations this scene triggers. Another layer is fragments of the Jeff Buckley song I was listening to as I drove down the street watching the skater, and random static of my brain generates interruptions from old Monty Python comedy shows. Other layers of sound effects and music further swirl this wordscape into something akin to my original vision. Elapsed time of the track? Over six minutes. That's how long it took to capture even a sliver of what was going on in my head those few seconds on Gamble Street, under a thundery sky.

Mark Sebastian Jordan