heyy

i call this one victory lap!




enjoy!

"bank shot"

next one from the new project.
this is a rough attempt at something
conventionally coherent!



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track !!(7)!! from new project

this one is called thoughts on f
(feat. general beauregard), for
reasons which may or may not be
apparent!



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more from new project

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a post

well, here's a post. i think if i were to gather up all
the pieces from "method ii" (which is now a misnomer since
actually a variety of methods were used), i would have an
album length. i think that i'll call this track the 1st on a
new album...



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it's been a long long time

(clip from its been a long long time, sped up)



enjoy!

this one's from when i

was feeling frustrated enough that i let myself play a little bit:



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a postttt

it's going to be a busy few weeks. i made this one just
for fun; it's essentially a regression but i had some fun
with it!



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friday night

more efforts:
the bass and drums come from a coltrane track.
any astute listeners know what the horn part is?




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personal reward system

etude? "featuring roy haynes" i'd say.




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call me interlude

this time i am titling the blog post with
the title of the track. normally, i don't
do that -- then people refer to the song
by the title of the blog post <-- blogpost
being their only encounter with the track



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party cancelled

found myself free of social obligations for a night:



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wednesdays will be nice

finally got a chance to work on some music!
this one is dedicated to art tatum since he
is heavily sampled.



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well

i'm having fun finally trying to merge real-time
guitar playing and electronic music. everything in
this track was recorded tonight. i had real ambitious
thoughts about what i could get done in a night; it
takes more time than i thought but it's a lot of fun
so it works out well.



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more playing

well, here are two little things i saved as
i was playing around today with the new usb
condenser mic:

the 1st is a chorus from "autumn leaves"... i
recorded 3 tracks and put the bass-line down
an octave (resulting in cheesy sound a little
bit).





the 2nd is practicing over a track i made for
just that purpose.




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new usb condenser mic

got a new toy and it should help with the
sound quality in a big way! here's an experiment
with the toy (sorry no download links; i'll fix
a bunch of posts later):




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and tomorrow, school

fifth track from method II:



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back to austin

well, i got back to austin yesterday and started doing
more electronic music today. i decided to start fresh
and attempt a second "method" album, which i will
creatively title "method II". already, i have cheated
and worked outside of the method, which led me to
title the first track "modifications usually acceptable":



the post title won't lead to a download link this time
because i am going to wait until i complete the whole
album before posting a download link. for now, here is
a listen. enjoy!

busybusy

well, this is just a post to assure you
that this blog is not going inactive...
(i'm sure you were worried)

i've just been horribly busy. anyway,
new posts soon! promise

electronic track, borderline ambient

i made this last night and liked it. i think i named
it "okay" but i should have called it "spray."

blue in green/twins

here are a few tracks.

the first is 'blue in green' off kind of blue by
miles davis. it's a pretty slow track, and i have
recorded it one time before.




the second is 'twins' which i wrote a while ago
for a very special pair of twins on their birthday.



tonight i am very tired. hey by the way if you
ever have any requests/recommendations, i am all
ears

todd

thanks to todd, i decided to make another track
instead of going to bed too early. it ended up
an ambient track, but as todd pointed out, such
a track can always evolve at a later date.
thanks to todd!

there is no greater love

this is a standard that i remembered i knew
about a week ago. i've been playing around with
trying to play the tune solo-guitar style... tonight
i recorded some stuff and i thought this was maybe
interesting. probably after a while i'll start cycling
and you'll hear another go at this tune maybe in a
few weeks and hopefully there will be some kind of
improvement. ideally...

in what will probably become a custom, i've provided
more download links than just the track i'm putting
here... if you haven't done it yet, click the name of the
post for downloads.

aforementioned track

here's that track i was referring to:




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portland la quinta!

well i have been trying to upload a file i've made,
but i guess the wireless is weaker in la quinta than
they might advertise... but i figured i'd post anyway,
just because i'm noticing my computer struggling
when i try to pull up my own blog because of all of
those embedded audio things... so a post without
a sound clip isn't the end of the world, and i'll only
show 3 posts per page or something so everyone's (read
my) computer doesn't freak out upon visiting.

anyway, i'll post the file once i get good internet again...
it's an electronic track using (almost) all my own samples
and i went through about three versions i.e. this is the
first electronic effort i've made in a while that resulted
in better than saying fuck it and ending up with some
ambient wav file i don't know what to do with.

two improvsations

i recorded these this morning; they're pretty random
but i thought it would be good to get some posting going
on this blog. the first one i sort of end up playing over
the changes to 'recorda me'



the second one i am thinking a lot about the changes to
'jeep on 35' off of a go go by john scofield.

first post

hey everyone --
i decided it might be worthwhile to have a place
where i could post things/music that i record.

here's a first post:

this is a recording taken at a friend's house. it's
the sound made as a faucet fills up a brita-filter
type thing through a hose.