Weird

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

I wrote these weird lyrics in the 90s.  Then I generated the voice using text to speech synthesis.  Then I put this together in FruityLoops.

Popcorn On Ice

This song is about camping and worrying about gas prices.  The lyrics are completely improvised, and I added in some weird cat noises.  Multi-layer improvisation with Yamaha keyboard, guitar, and vocals through an echo pedal.

Gas Prices

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

Multi-layer improvisation with Korg Radias keyboard and guitar, and TC Helicon Voice Pedal.

Ambivalence

This is a multi-layer planned song I wrote on a Korg Radias keyboard and sang.

Normal Skeleton

At some point, I got these flies in my bathroom and I couldn't get rid of the infestation.  I tried everything but nothing was working.  I finally had to purposefully manually wipe them out every few hours to stop the breeding cycle in addition to all the little traps.  This is an improvised song on Korg Radias keyboard.

Too Many Flies

An Otamatone is an electronic synthesizer shaped like a musical eighth note, good at making sounds similar to opera vibrato.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otamatone

I wrote the bass part first on Korg Radias, then went back and overdubbed 2 otamatones.  There are long sections where one of them is horribly flat or sharp and it makes you want to tear your eyeballs out.  I could have done a better job if I actually practiced but this is like take 1 improvised for each instrument.

Duetto Con Otamatone

Deadicated to my mother, seriously I promise she will like this song.  She used to play a classical piece on piano that sounded very dark and it had three loud chords, which I used to sing "Eat Your Brain" to while I was young... it must have been Halloween at the time.  My mother taught piano lessons out of the house.

Eat Your Brain

My father was in a barbershop group called "Out Of The Blue" in Virginia.  They went to several competitions.  I got into barbershop for a while.  The original version of this was badly recorded, so I made another.

LYRICS:
I ate some bad tomatoes filled with worms.
And now I'm sick in my stomach as it churns.
And can I hold the food inside my mouth,
Or will I feel I'm forced to puke it out.
Those brown tomatoes that we adore,
We find them rotting slowly on the floor,
And we must eat them every day,
But then there's something we must say:
I ate some bad tomatoes filled with worms,
And now I'm sick in my stomach as it churns,
And can I hold the food inside my mouth,
Or will I feel I'm forced to puke it out.

Brown Tomatoes

Collaboration with Alien Syndrome Deluxe, who composed the base concept.  I added the opening build, some audio filter drops, Korg Radias, Kaossilator, and Akai EWI4000s (flute sounds at the end).

https://soundcloud.com/alien-syndrome-deluxe

Moon Mites

Dixieland klezmer with a bit of ragtime piano.  Took a while to put together but the balance was worth it.  Lots of post filtering.  Enjoy the weirdness.

Here is me with the cheapest accordian that I own while I was recovering from COVID:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/aQdIUyRX-dQ

LYRICS:
I was lookin' out my window
Through the reflection of a mirror,
And through the rain,
Suddenly, an obelisk appeared.
Behind the transparent obelisk
Was a mystic apparition
That presented forth a document
With a very strong position.

And I heard him ask, in all honesty, for my blatant truth opinion...
What would be my thoughts if I were from his crystalline dominion?
Could I lay out any arguments quite plainly in his ear?
I paused for just a moment to ensure that I was... coherent...

I said, "it's clear that it's clear that it's clear that it's clear."
"I have no obstructed views," and as his peer,
I would calculate with certainty the probability of the result.
But then he disappeared and it was clearly not my fault...

It's clear that it's clear that it's clear.

I said, "it's clear that it's clear that it's clear that it's clear."
"I have no obstructed views," and as his peer,
I would calculate with certainty the probability of the result.
But then he disappeared and it was clearly not my fault, because...
It's clear that it's clear that it's clear that it's clear...

It's Clear

Multi-artist project of April 2025.

LYRICS AND ANNOTATIONS:

(Morse code for "we are just like you we promise. settle in.")
(birds)
Bones chilled in the old ghost forest,
Where the tide came in took the land away.
Hollow trees, still standing.
Knee deep in swamp water is where I stay (is where I stay).

Living lives of quiet desperation.
The haters, they just follow the herd,
Wearing masks of false inspiration,
Their festering wounds left undisturbed (undisturbed).

Running towards the pain,
The wicked voice of their disdain,
On that edge - the tired eyes reflect:
It’s only the first time we fear what’s next.

For those who live in risk,
In a society whose promises won’t stick,
Is this the end of the line?
Have we used up what’s left of our time?

In the old ghost forest, I stand tall
Like a stubborn oak tree that refuses to fall.
Empty cans and bottles lie nearby,
Artifacts from a past that will not die.

In the old ghost forest, I kneel to pray,
Confess my sins, wash them away.
In the old ghost forest, I scream aloud,
"Lord, gimme the strength to stand proud!"

(birds)
Our future's found: four circles deep.
Come slosh around; more misery, reaped.

What’s woes occurred: cursed, fate foreseen.
What does the word "worst" even mean?

A fitting gloom: stark, rank and sour.
A fetid tomb: dark, dank and dour.

We should have known how ends begin.
This is our home now; settle in.

Settle in.

(city street chatter)
We should have known how ends begin.
This is our home now; settle in!

Settle in!

We are just like you.
We promise, we promise.
Settle in…
We promise, we promise.
Settle in…

Black tar rains from a sky long dead,
We chew on rust, drink molten lead.
No dawn breaks through this crawling haze,
Just grinding teeth and static praise.
This is the hymn of bone and sin—
The sludge within did settle in.

Our tongues are ash, our limbs decay,
We march in place, still rot away.
This is the hymn of bone and sin—
The sludge within did settle in.

This is the hymn of bone and sin—
The sludge within did settle in.
(ocean sounds)

Settle In

Ambient soundscape of being inside of a heart.  TEOP1 keyboard with multiple really low modulated wumps, then a few lead layers mostly triplets of dissonant 2nds and 7ths, intentionally with no rhythm.  Then simple Audacity cleanup to -14dB normalization and -1dB soft limit.

Inside The Heart

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.

Weird

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