One of the most impressive agricultural inventions of Uncle Hassell's lifetime was center-pivot irrigation, in which a long structure of wheeled trusses supporting a water pipeline and anchored to a central point, slowly makes its way around a field to evenly provide water to crops. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_pivot_irrigation

This piece was composed in an attempt to evoke the slow motion of these gigantic contraptions and the hissing of their multiple sprinklers.

Water Wheel

"Winter Sunrise" is the lead track from an upcoming collection of Uncle Hassell's recordings now being assembled for release of the Careful Disorderliness label. Watch for an announcement soon.

As a deacon at United Methodist of Mer Rouge, Hassell Clark had keys that allowed him to enter the sanctuary during off-hours, of which there were many, and record the sound of various settings on the church organ--usually single notes and sustained chords--which he would later edit and manipulate extensively in his home studio, resulting in impressionistic pieces like this one.

Winter Sunrise

Sometimes it's relaxing to sit with the banjo late at night and noodle around until something pleases my ear, and then to hone and repeat the riff over and over, as a sort of instrumental mantra. It's usually neither complex nor highly original, it's just...folk music, as played by a folk.

This is what it sounded like tonight.

Rabbit Tracks

The latest challenge from my friends' "Muse and Method" group was to create something based on the idea of "Cycles". It had me thinking of how clawhammer banjo playing is so reliant on repeated patterns--cycles, if you will. I've fooled around in the past with multitracked and interlocking banjo patterns (Steve Reich's worst nightmare?)and thought I would revisit the idea here.

This track consists of five five-stringed banjos playing in five-four time. The picture is Charles Demuth's "I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold".

An older, looser, maybe more fun version of this experiment, from 2012, is here: https://hanklebury.bandcamp.com/track/the-dream-of-rain

5x5x5

⚠️Ada Zielinska made the cover art, I do not own this digital art⚠️

Éphémère

My friends with the "Muse and Method" creative challenge have issued another prompt. This time the topic is "March".

This track was built with two samples from my personal collection of field recordings. The 4-beat rhythm loop is the percussion section of the Shawnee Mission North High School marching band, recorded at the Overland Park Fall Festival in 2011. The horn sound is an air horn on an antique steam tractor, recorded at the Northwest Michigan Engine and Thresher Show, Buckley, Michigan way back in 1989 and played back through a keyboard sampler.

The Marty Street Hi-Steppin' Boogie

Radiohead - Where Bluebirds Fly
(Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood and the Nazareth Orchestra)
Live at Ether Festival
At Royal Festival Hall, London, England 
27.03.2005

Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood & Nazareth Orchestra - Where Bluebirds Fly (Live At Ether Festival 2005)

Sample :
Sometimes ... I do not know...
Sometimes... I'm walking along the street, and...
a shed of sunlight falls in a certain way accross the pavement...
and... I just want to cry... and... a second later it's over.

From "Take this Waltz" Sarah Polley
For Salomé

A shed of sunlight

Final track from the album "Unexplored Corridors", available right here: https://hanklebury.bandcamp.com/album/unexplored-corridors

Image: Improvised Landscape, watercolor, 2020

Unexplored Corridor #13

Hank Tilbury - Lazy Rain, 2019
https://lullabiesforinsomniacslabel.bandcamp.com/album/transmigration

Hank Tilbury- Lazy Rain

Although details of its creation remain secret, P-Bob Smith asserts that this is a direct audio translation of the famously obscure Samadhisburg Lights, as witnessed in the pre-dawn hours of February 29, 2018.

Anomalous Luminous Phenomena

Pierre-Jean Parry
humeurs & investigations auditives

A shed of sunlight

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