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Tim's had a 'the Club is Open' - the only one I've seen outside a Guided by Voices show. More surgery here on a 2016 recording with my man Neil. Link to the post.

Saturday night Medicine Hat at Tim's Tavern in West Seattle. NOT the best recording I've made. A super fast Empty Link to the post.

Another remix with stem separation - this one works a bit better than the one a few days ago. Link to the post.

This session with Neil is from November 24, 2016. Link to the post.

Same car as yesterday, close up of the... not sure what. I've been plaing with a few new stem separation tools. Here's an iphone rec of Neil and I. I don't get to jam enough lately so I'm trawling previous tapes for goodies. The separation really does some squishy things with cymbals. Link to the post.

Intro good times - I love making these tiny-fragment loops live. This car is the touchstone on my new trail running route in Banner Forest. Link to the post.

A little bit of the Ocean, from Medicine Hat practice today. Sometimes I'm up for a guitar solo. This tree almost killed us on the trail at Big Creek, Olympic National Forest, last weekend. I'm glad it did not. Link to the post.

This stump kind of blew my mind - a tree within a tree! This old noodle has some interesting harmonic moves. Link to the post.

We went to see Stinkfoot Orchestra play a bunch of Zappa - great horns and keys, committed folks. Link to the post.

All of these little noodles this week are me trying to make the most of a Zoom H4N Handy Recorder - specifically the very-minimal 4 track recorder. All guitars here. The mics don't sound half bad. This is called Bebows. Pictured: a little closeup from the insert to the LP Believercise. Link to the post.

There was an SK-1 marathon at my house this week. "Make a mess - don't try to be perfect or good, just try." I managed to find 1/2 time and double-time drums with the tempo button, and the horns make a pretty good low saw lead. This is called Gorst 3. This poster came with a record called Believercise. Link to the post.

There was an SK-1 marathon at my house this week. Kind of a slop fest, but you can really make a racket with that One Note Play button. This is called Scooch. Other facts about today: Today is my dad's 80th. Partch has been on heavy rotation in my headphones. Link to the post.

There was an SK-1 marathon at my house this week. It's fun to see how much you can do with the One Key Play buttons and a busy melodic line. This one is named Wij Cycle. The neighbors lent us their orchard ladder, and soon the real pruning of this bad boy will begin. Link to the post.

There was an SK-1 marathon at my house this week. "Make a mess - don't try to be perfect or good, just try." This one is named "Srirokka". Look at that perfect pickly Leesa grew! Link to the post.

A lot of walkin in the woods these past few weeks. This stump, a reclining Snoopy maybe. Link to the post.

First jam at Neil's new place. Feels like my roots are finally starting to get established over here on Kitsap this week. Link to the post.

I fixed a bunch of bugs in Thuja this week, and have been messing with realtime remixing using what I've always called the loop-index method. Makes a big mess of this tapepause bit of audio from a Gregorian chant recording. Link to the post.

Raising the Holier Grail pedal from the dead this week. Bass lines with harmonic foreground always grounds me. Link to the post.

Waiting on hold, I have to take the hold music at face value. On this call the genre changed every 4 bars or so - almost a John Zorn piece. This abstract was mistakenly taken in my coat pocket today. Link to the post.

Hope it doesn't drive you crazy. I listened to 15 minutes of this generated beat stuff on repeat this AM, and I just disappear into it. Link to the post.

More Thuja beat juggling. Link to the post.

Good times this weekend working some kinks out of Thuja by resuscitating some old beat juggling code. I like the double-kick feel in this one. Link to the post.

Good times this weekend working some kinks out of Thuja by resuscitating beats from this loop - something I milked like crazy in my piece Anxious. I listened to so many variations I made with this one loop and they still suck me in. The next three or four posts are variations I came up with over the weekend. After reworking some very old (25 years old) lisp code, I finally got the remixing / juggl...

Happy Halloween - a little Wizard Prison from the vaults. The apple tree pictured here is thriving but still would scare a 4 year old version of myself. Link to the post.

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