First mix of Calfia - 

Disappointed Friend:
Craig Phillips / Michael Romay

Calfia

Disappointed Friend - Calfia

I often do what I call stream of consciousness recordings.  Where I sit down with zero ideas and hit record.  Make a thing, layer another thing over it and so on and so forth.  If you've made it through all 9 and ahalf minutes, I applaud you!

I bought an aurtria keystep and this happened - soc (stream of consciousness)

spec - I bought an aurtria keystep and this happened - soc (stream of consciousness recording)

live track made with a looping system I built in max

LooprTwo - 03 - 29 - 2020

really long track I made with the looping system I built in max.  controlled with custom midi foot switch pedal and custom made midi device with several sensors.  guitars, pedals, synths, etc

LooprOne - 03 - 29 - 2020

this is a demo for a song for a band I was starting late 2019 early 2020, but that fell apart cause, you know..

the song is about getting older and feeling mostly the same but somehow a bunch of time went by and you're not really sure what happened because you have bad memory, whatever.  is existence even fair to put on someone else?

budge - push - 12-01-2019

another song demo for the band 'budge' that never came to be.

budge - janbudge - 01 - 10 - 20

once a year I try to get up to the souwester lodge in SW Washington to do a week long residency and write and record several songs a day.  basically just whatever comes to mind first is recorded, here's a track from the 2020 session

dink - you ok woot? - souwester writing session - 06-20-2020

another track from 2020 souwester residency

dink - be careful dat wootie - souwester writing session - 06-20-2020

this was a performance I did on a 32.2 speaker array at Disjecta (Portland, OR) on 9-11-2019 using Max MSP

checkout https://www.michaelromay.dev/installations for more information

Spec - Conversation - Performed On The Wave 32 Channel Array - Disjecta - 9 - 11 - 2019

Human-being making and engineering invisible vibrations for wide spread entertainment / distraction.