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Still learning this instrument called Ableton Live - here messing around with one of our Chiwas tunes. A bookmark for next rehearsal. Link to the post.

A little busy this week - didn't get much practice time, but didn't want to forget about this little simple thing on acoustic, and what you can do with it in Ableton. Link to the post.

A little Teenage Engineering and piano always works. This was for a movie about a massive scultpure of stuffies that never got off the ground. Here it sits - still feels good to me. Link to the post.

This is the gesture I build the C4T to play: a kind of strum with the slider that glitches the beginning of a note and feels like an articulation. Link to the post.

My musical practice felt so good from 2017-2020. I had Tuktu bleeding into the Guitar Cult, with big breaks in the summer to just play. I got real friendly with my beautiful acoustic Webber, and meeting John (Stropes) sent me into more confident playing than I'd previously experienced. I began to sit and improvise for long sessions. After an hour or so of wandering warmup, ideas came out fully...

This popped in my head - I hear Stereolab arrangements every once in a while and this is one, though I'm wrestling with getting the right sounds from Ableton. Flutes are standing in for vocals for now. Link to the post.

1st night in the space in AGES - maybe 3 months. Spitballing some lyrics over an old line I've tried to use in like 5 diffferent songs. Maybe this is the one! Link to the post.

The first time fog has impacted my commute! I waited in line for the ferry and noodled this together on the OP-1. I discovered Yancey Strickler (co-founder of Kickstarter) and the Metalabel philosophy this week, and have been absorbing his rap and getting inspired. The first Metalabel post I found out about - YACHT's New Release ..then I listened to this podcast and I'm still processing. L...

Moon Ring part 6. Sounds (mainly) from season 1 of Space 1999 - much love. Link to the post.

Moon Ring part 5. Sounds (mainly) from season 1 of Space 1999 - much love. Link to the post.

Moon Ring part 4. Sounds (mainly) from season 1 of Space 1999 - much love. Link to the post.

Moon Ring part 3. Sounds (mainly) from season 1 of Space 1999 - much love. Link to the post.

Moon Ring part 2. Last day today with Hud and Dalila. Sounds (mainly) from season 1 of Space 1999 - much love. Link to the post.

Moon Ring part 1. I'm working on getting the Fremont studio back in shape for rehearsals. I reorganized the site with an update to the front page, and am doing much soul searching, which you'll see bits of in my blog. Sounds (mainly) from season 1 of Space 1999 - much love. Link to the post.

The old Articulations podcast theme. Maybe we'll relaunch one of these days. Link to the post.

This one is triggering those "should I post this or not" feels but I'm going to go for it, since C'mon C'mon has been on my brain since I saw David last week. I was real proud of this song about Leesa and I living in Maple Leaf and trying to keep the fact that we were going out hidden from our roommates. The bridge was replaced by something different and I clean forgo...

Leesa caught this amazing little owl on tape - I couldn't break away from work to get my recording action out to capture it but I love hearing it. This is the tree I think it was in. Link to the post.

Saw David Russell (Doctor!) the other night after way too many days, and man I miss writing tunes like this! Cmon cmon was a good one, and we're at least planning on remixing the second record. This and many other demos are fodder for extras. I think that's DR on backups? I know he pushed me to write the best lines here, if they weren't his to begin with. "We need some 'no...

So 32 sounds was real thought-provoking. I am so fortunate to have this ear, this practice and developing abilities. I get sheepish and weirded out sometimes with how far out I think my sound making is, then I watch 80-year-old Annea Lockwood listening to a river bed with her hydrophones and know I'm on the right path. This mix is on top of an old loop and bass line from 2011 or so ("...

What is this? Something called "Piano Solo 6" from 15 years ago, recorded in the Fremont space. I recorded 7 of these that seemed worthy of saving at the time. This is probably right when I got the space, around 2006. Trying to not think and just play. Overlayed some rhythm machine recording (can't remember which device it was but it is collectible, I think it was Sean's)...

Number 200! "2019.12.06.HiLonesome" - that 'High, Lonesome' sound is ... kind of on here but more sounds like a rural Japanese location I would like to visit in the 1920s. I dunno something like that. What's that word for awestruck+forlorn+contentment? The AI says "The word you're thinking of might be "saudade." Saudade is a Portuguese t...

Rando strat idea from, also recorded 12.15.2015. I like those big ninths through the Bassman. Link to the post.

2015.12.15 Melody on the piano. This one is simple but it sticks around in my consciousness - gotta do something with it sometime. Link to the post.

The file says "gqrx_20230125_232058_8992000" so I recorded this weird numbers-station-style broadcast on Jan 1, 2023 at 8992 kHz. What does it mean? Link to the post.

Happy birthday my queen. You see me through so many rough nights of insomnia. I recorded this late one night in June 2020, at the beginning of the pandemic. Thank you I love you. Link to the post.