Animals

This song is intentionally off-beat and glitchy, in case you were wondering.  That's the best that gerbils can do when they are making music on an all-expense paid cruise ship.  Multi-layer improvisation with me on alto saxophone, and my girl on old Yamaha keyboard.

Gerbil Jerky

What is the Christmas Mouse's secret?  Multi-layer original composition performed by me on guitar and old Yamaha keyboard and my own vocals.

Christmas Mouse

No whales were harmed in the creation of this song.  They are not real whale sounds, sorry.  Improvised guitar and old Yamaha keyboard through an effects pedal.  Whale sounds were keyboard in portamento through the effects pedal.

Sad Whales

Multi-layer improvised song with me playing my old Yamaha keyboard, guitar, and Akai EWI4000s.

Latin Kitty

Multi-layer improvised song with me playing my old Yamaha keyboard, and me singing multiple voice parts (lead and backup).  Let me also say that the lyrics were COMPLETELY improvised.  I was cooking some chicken in my old apartment in Williamsburg, VA.

I Cook My Chicken

This song is about my cat, who does not have object permanence.  It's a multi-layer improvisation with some planned lyrics added.

The Witter Knows

This is an improvised techno piece on Korg Radias keyboard.

Fox Catching

Algorithmic live improvised song in Haskell programming language in Tidal Cycles, that I later ran through audacity and clipped out some parts where I messed up.

Sand Whales

In addition to harpsichord, I also like accordion.  I currently only own a really dumpster-version accordion, so this is algorithmic rendered accordion.  Imagine a cat in Venice, Italy, accidentally falling into the water after eating too much fish.

Dizzy Cat

My cat's name is officially Holstein (which is the name for a type of cow), but we call her Steeny.
She is a mostly white cat with mostly symmetrical black spots.
With my cat, I say "Chimkin" instead of chicken.
I trained my cat to walk and use buttons when she wants things.
I love my cat, but now she hits all the buttons and it wakes me up in the middle of the night.  And for some reason she goes number 2 outside of the litter box for the last 10 years.
Here is a video of her walking on 2 legs: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VkIGLo6KDUQ

I Wants Treats

Opening music for a horror film I'm making called "The Dranglers" about mutant angler fish with spider legs that lure humans by shaping their esca like everyday objects.

Here is the movie teaser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=semmDIcMcG8

I'm working with local Stefan Parrish in Hampton, VA.

The Dranglers

Ambient world music on a TE OP-1 keyboard.

Cold Smoked Salmon

Psychedelic Rock Drone.  Completely on TE OP-1 Keyboard.

Catatonic

World song on TE OP-1 Field Keyboard.  Ptarmigans = Tundra Bird

Ptarmigans

Heavy Metal Dubstep with a calm Acoustic ending.  One interesting instrument used in this was a box of cat treats.  Lots of TE OP-1 Field keyboard and some voice modulation.  Mostly "Mother" filter through vocoder (like for the acoustic part).  I haven't been able to record my cat making any new sounds lately, so I just meowed myself for most of this, and I'm the one making the noise that cats make when they see a fly.  It's also just me hissing... no animals were harmed in the creation of this song.  Oh yeah, Audacity filters.

If you are in the mood for some more cat songs, here is a blues video of me and my cat:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWvEVhwWikM

LYRICS (and annotations):
Little bitty kitty. (box of treats shaking)
Little bitty kitty.
Little bitty kitty go mow mow mow.
(Treats box)
(Quality dub bass)
Treats or death. (Sounds a cat makes when it sees a fly)
Treats or death.
Treats or death, now!!!
Treats or you die!!!
(Me fake meowing)
You finallys gaved me treats...
But day are da wrong flavors.
I only likes da tuna ones.
If you loves me you would have knowns...
Now I uses my cwaws and fratch your face!!!
I fratch your face!!!
I hates you!!!
(Me making sound my cat does when she is sad)
(Treat box again)
Ah!!!
Tuna!!!
I'm tireds and colds cans we cuddles now?
(Some of my unfiltered voice singing in background)

Little Bitty Kitty

Ambient sludge.  Made with TE OP-1 Field.  Recordings of myself using these instruments: opening a soda can, crunching a protein bar wrapper, unrolling a thing of packaging tape, tapping on my old metal office desk.  We are all just selfish rats.

Rats Under The Docks

I'm going to start doing some live looping performances on TEOP1 so this is a random practice session that is kind of Jam Band / Scat / Funk.  There is a 4-track on the TEOP1, so I can start out with drums or scat and then hit a key to end the loop, then just keep playing live and kind of overdub onto the other 3 tracks, and then also add in breaks by holding on one of the tracks while playing a B section.  I just live improvised the bass loop and then improvised the organ and keys as I went.  Random mood today, sorry to my dubstep and ambient fans :) This one is weird.

Bow Meow

For reasons unknown but time will tell...
Multi-instrumentalist, all types of music, all types of methods.
Occasional collaborations with other artists.
Sometimes I post the sheet music if it's piano.
Lately, my favorite instrument is a TE OP-1 Field keyboard.

Animals

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