A live, collaborative improvisation from January, 2011 with Todd Merrell, virtual instruments, and Paul Cienniwa, harpsichord. Recording this performance without feedback bordered on the impossible. This is a small miracle...

Merrell Cienniwa excerpt

'Rosetta Landing' is an homage to the European Space Agency's historic launch of the Philae module onto Comet 67P. This piece was completed as the spacecraft landed, and is composed entirely from one live recording of the composer playing a Hammarlund HQ-180A shortwave radio receiver as an instrument, and layered with resynthesized and processed parts made only from the original recording.

Rosetta Landing

Blackened By Fire 2 Master

Gliding

With inestimable contributions from Patrick Jordan and Stephen Haynes. From 2007. Worth revisiting, methinks...

Hit Me Up Sugar Daddy (Sexymix)

Downtown Chicken

Todd Merrell

Waking

Your Eyes

Remove (excerpt)

The Big Tease (excerpt)

Kundalini (excerpt)

The Hoe (Get) Down excerpt

Soldier On

'Earth: Summer, 2011' is a new work commissioned by the NOW! Concerts series for software instruments, field recordings, shortwave radio, and processing. Inspired by the idea of reconstructing the present in the future, it is a kind of musical archaeology, describing what it felt like to be alive during Summer of 2011 on this planet, but from the perspective of the future. A series of vignettes, it is a nostalgic look at something very recent, as if it had been put back together many years hence, with the inevitable errors of anachronism, and hypotheses filling in missing information. Stylistically, the piece is an amalgam of many recent and contemporary electronic music styles, including Jamaican dub, downtempo, ambient, drone, glitch, and microsound. This work is a paean to our world, now, and a celebration of being in it.

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