Three movements, two minutes each.

As a compositional exercise, a brief sample of a slamming door was subjected to a single method of processing and assembled into a stereo piece of two minutes or less. I was so pleased with the results of the exercise that I decided to create a collection of works using this approach, all with the same sound source.

Door Variations  (©2004)

To be honest, I don't remember this song, but it was on one of my Solar Coaster practice recordings. I'm not sure why we didn't pursue this one ... I like it, it's bouncy and fun. Oh well. Sometimes songs were scrapped because some part of it worked better in another song, so this may have been the case here.

She's Okay Rehearsal

This is another song off a taped rehearsal that I don't remember. Seems like a pretty cool song. Not sure what happened to it or why we didn't develop it.

Unknown Rehearsal Song

Either this is from a rehearsal tape when we were preparing to record the album or this is a version that has a heavy distortion on the bass. I really like this version of it and like the bass sound. The song is called Zero Sum. The lyrics are really cool:

Sorry I didn’t call you back,
I fell into a trance, it took me.
Must’ve been some kind of spell,
Must’ve been some kind of potion.

Every movement
Every little sound is pounding me around
A thousand feet per second
Falling asleep
I find myself as zero.

Sorry I didn’t meet you there,
Took me back to a snow covered lake.
Parked the car on thin ice
Left the engine running
And lit a cigarette 

SETI - Hey!

Anonymous - Album Rehearsal late 97ish

This is from a cassette given to me as a teen by my older brother. I don't know the name of this band, I just remember him telling me it was a Birmingham based band. If anyone knows who they are, let me know.

Door Variations (©2004)

Sam Hamm

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