Sitting on the screened porch on one of those sultry summer nights in the south, sipping sweet tea and waiting for the mushrooms to kick in.

This recording is a collage of three completely different versions of the song: an acoustic first take recorded outdoors on one of those sweltering nights and two electric versions - warped and stretched beyond recognition.

A cosmic campfire singalong from Sol y Sol's kickass geek masterpiece Goodbye, Strange Planet.

Sun Sweet Sun - "Beam Me Up"

ARTIST’S STATEMENT 

This piece is both a religious work, suited to inward prayer or meditation and a recording made to observe the resonant characteristics of feedback in an electric guitar system. The work reflects my current personal state of spiritual evolution - a striving towards inner peace and stillness, but with periodic and unpredicted disturbances. 

The guitar was placed on a stand in proximity to the amplifiers. The angle of the two amps in relation to each other was 120 degrees, so the system of one guitar and two amps formed an obtuse triangle of 120/30/30. 

To experience the piece fully, play the audio over a loudspeaker system capable of 1000 watts of output, with all lights turned off, and nag champa burning. 

VARIABLES: 

Various distortion pedals. Snares on and off. Guitar tone knob and pickup switch. Position of human body in relation to loudspeaker system. 

Vibrations could be felt throughout my body, in the walls, in drums and drumskins, in the speakers cabinets. Drums picked up significant sympathetic resonance, especially in the heads. 

GEAR - 

Amplifiers: 
1 x 12” speaker - Fender Blues Junior III 
4 x 10” speaker - Fender Hot Rod Deville 410 

Guitar: 
Fender Classic Player Jazzmaster tuned EG#EEG#G#
Distortion Pedals: 
Electro Harmonix NYC Big Muff 
ZVex Fuzz Factory 
MXR Blue Box 
Boss Metal Zone 

Misc: 
Enforcer drumset 
iMac/Garageband

Performed and recorded by James Wesley Nichols on November 29, 2014 at The Sawmill - Greenville, SC.

Sumpatheia

On May 26, 2015, my children - ages 6 and 4 - made their recorded musical debut with (what else?) this unruly extended noise improvization piece. They switched instruments about halfway through. Turning them loose this way is fun and inspirational to me, as I get to see different emotional sides to them as well as pure, childish, untrained lateral thinking in action. Audio was recorded to cassette via Tascam Portastudio 414mkII and video to hard disk with JVC Everio GZ-MG330AU. 
J.W.N.
credits
released 27 May 2015 

Instructors: 

Percussion/Electric Guitar - Beatrice Nichols 
Electric Guitar/Percussion - James Ambrose Nichols

SENSORY COMPLEX - ADVANCED JAZZ SEMINAR

Get Fucked Up

Soundtrack to SIMON CHEVROLET'S upcoming namesake short film.

Starring CHARLIE "DIM JIM MARTINEZ" GIL

Music by LUNA FLORES

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SOIREE SOLITAIRE

DIM JIM

Transmission from Ganymede received by the Very Large Array, Plains of San Agustin, New Mexico on 01/01/11. 

New edit 01/29/11

MICROWAVE EYES "RECORDS"