arrangement for Guitar, Piano, and Strings. based from "Recuerdos De La Alhambra" by Francisco Tárrega. improvised under imaging the history of Spain. special thanks to Emily Close. motif sound.

Recuerdos De La Alhambra (F. Tárrega) guitar arrangement

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In many ways I miss those days
Fate you move in such strange ways
Never found the words to say
If I said come now, would you stay
Dancing with no shoes at night
Always says you'll kiss the sky
I've got the blues
I just might lose
flashing lights they fill her eyes well

Smoking less
Staying out more
(One things for sure)

Hey man don't touch her
She ain't yours
She's not mine either
I just can't leave her to you, no
Hey man don't touch her
She ain't yours
She's not mine either
I just can't leave her to you

Love just always means someday
Your ways they just haven't changed, lord
Smoking in a flower stand
She loves him but it's pretend
I've got the blues
I just might lose
What if it's just in her mind
Something tells me we're alright
Thinking what she does at night

Smoking less
Going out more
(One things for sure)

Hey man don't touch her
She ain't yours
She's not mine either
I just can't leave her to you
Hey man don't touch her
She ain't yours
She's not mine either
I just can't leave her to you

Just to be alone with you
Just to be alone with you
Just to be alone with you
Won't take too long
I've been waiting just
To be alone with you
Won't take too long
I've been waiting just to
To be alone with you
Won't take too long
I've been waiting just to
Just to be alone with you

she aint yoursssss
She's not mine either
I just can't leave her to you
Hey man don't touch her
She ain't yours
She's not mine either
I just can't leave her to you

She's Not Yours

Leon Theremin - theremin
Natasha Theremin - piano
"Swan" - Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns


Leon and Natasha Theremin. "Swan" - Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns

Composed for the synthesis show with Joanne Dramko.

A silly reference to Satie, and his concept of "musique d’ameublement" (furniture music). But in actuality it could be considered more of an experiment in spastic counterpoint for an impossible "double-decker" piano.  I recorded a single phrase (the opening) and added an accompanying left hand. I then copy/pasted the parts while changing a few of the settings, octave, delay by an 1/8 note, etc.  The resulting  emergent harmonies were the result of the chance alignments, tempered with my editing.  This could not be played in real life by a single pianist, given the mashing of notes in the same ranges.

Erik's Not Here Man

Remixed for the synthesis gallery installation with Joanne Dramko.

Inspired by a performance of Everything Ends Here by Don Buchla and Alessandro Cortini at the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival in 2010. This piece was my first attempt to deliberately slow down the tempo way past my comfort level, playing behind my instincts rather than in front of them. I have paired this with Joanne's painting Breathe.

Arturia Arp 2600 and OBX through a feedback loop and distortion in Logic.

Buchlear Implant (Breathe)

This was commissioned by NASA's Kepler mission for their tribute to Carl Sagan in 2011. 

http://kepler.nasa.gov/education/sagan/musicForSagan/

"Pale Blue Dot" refers to the last image taken by the Voyager probe as it left the solar system and turned to face Earth:  a single pixel, suspended like a dust speck in a sunbeam.  Sagan's crusade to have NASA take such a "frivolous" image with a scientific instrument and his poetic response was the inspiration for this piece: 

"Consider again that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam."

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Phoenix Down

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