This is probably too in-your-face to be considered ambient. The basis of this track is a song I wrote in about 1994. I used pieces of its melody and harmony in a solo improvisation, and then added a few additional tracks to support the main track, along with a few snips of a 2003 recording of the source song.

Shadows of Memories

Telescope

From a project in progress. I intended the piece to be a song of joy, but it kept on telling me that it was a lullaby. In the project, it follows "wanderers", which is much darker. The little bear is Ursa Minor, the constellation which includes Polaris, the trusty north star. (Polaris makes a sound in this piece: it's the steady high G off to the left that, like the north star, shines steadily once the opening clouds part.)

Rather than have a joyful melody on top of the guitar chords, I realized that the guitar chords voice a very slow melody themselves (mainly repeating the phrase by the horn in the opening), and the pad with its bubbly reverberations add ebullience without interfering with the melody. Then I added the strings which punctuate many of the phrases with a simple "good night" until they build as the phrase concludes.

If you've made it this far, thank you for reading and for listening!

telescope

little bear

Join me for the moments before the crash into Jupiter aboard the Galileo spacecraft. Though really, the piece is not so much a journey from A to B as it is like slowly stirring a simmering pot of stew on the stove: various ingredients momentarily rising to the top and sinking back beneath, while some flavors predominate.

There are eight tracks of guitar, asynchronous loops, each run through different effects filters. Over time, lines are fed into different filters, mixed higher or lower, and the filters themselves change.

galileo

A little number I wrote in the late '90s about solution to all of our problems.

The Copyright Project

The Machine

I wrote this in about 1995, but a friend suggested I discard its original jokey lyrics and leave a "mood piece".

This was from a recording in 2003. The introduction is an experiment in having multiple guitars playing the same chord/scale, independent of each other. It's here to suggest being at a party where several conversations are occurring, as the speaker drifts away from all of them.

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