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Hey, different sides on the Dutch oven have different pitches.

Kids learn Iron Man in school now! So I can jam along, as long as I roll with the weirdness of this arrangement in C.

We went to Thunder Hole twice, once in the late afternoon and once at night. Neither time, the tide wasn’t strong enough to thunder. It still looked cool, though. Things ended up sounding more thundering at Sand Beach, where the waves did some cascading clapping.

Some combination of birds, frogs, and bugs at Acadia makes a polyrhythm at night.

I think I fixed the Notescast podcast feed.

Cathédrale Marie-Reine-du-Monde et Saint-Jacques Bell Time

Now that I have two game jams to do, I’m writing some late eighties style riffs on the guitar instead of figuring out Godot.

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This is L-Amp, a good and weird piece to start the music releasing year with. I have a lamp that interferes with my guitar-cable-amp loop. So, I decided to cut the guitar out of the loop and just use the lamp, cable, and amp, with some delay and reverb. Here's a video of the performance .

When they were in my head, I imagined these riffs would go together, but possibly, they don’t!

The guy has taken to transposing songs to really low and really high registers.

This is Phase the Blood, a short piece I put together in response to the Fresh Pair Junto prompt , which asked for the combination of two (possibly disparate) strong influences. I chose Slayer and Steve Reich. The piece is a Slayer-style riff played on one guitar and a version of that riff that has an extra half beat so that the two parts are not in phase, Steve Reich-style. Slayer is a band I got...

The guy got to be on the grand piano today.

I thought of a cool start for solo. If I could, I would then shred after this bit.

OK, Flying Fortress (fixed)! I introduced last-second arrangement mistake while trying to slam out the track yesterday. Also, the cello was added at the last second to thicken the viola, so I took a little time to make it less blend better.

Here is Flying Fortress. I originally wrote one of the riffs on guitar and was planning to learn the rest on guitar, but I think this works better with synthier sounds. (Also, recording guitar is a hassle.) I did the mix in ten minutes. Maybe I'll revisit later; maybe it's good enough.

I impromptu’d up a Wesley Willis style thing about leg problems.

Shifting both hands at the same time is a lot for a kid.

This is a bird. Nature is weird.

This is my tribute to doing things, Doing Things. Making dinner, taking a walk, looking for objects — you name it! I didn't do as crisp as mix as possible on this one, but maybe someday I'll do a second pass.

The guy’s piano playing is getting dramatic.

I may have to tone down this jazz odyssey some.

I mostly do not work on metal songs because I don’t have the riffs, nor do I think that there is much further it can go even if I did. Sometime last year, though, I did come up with what could be a good Krisiun-style riff if I could learn to play it fast enough. So I tried to come up with other riffs to go with it. I finally have the riffs to complete a song. I recorded it slowly, but whoa, I’m st...