Minutes

First connection with Neil in awhile, lots of new ideas. Link to the post.

First connection with Neil in awhile, lots of new ideas. Link to the post.

First connection with Neil in awhile, lots of new ideas. Link to the post.

First connection with Neil in awhile, lots of new ideas. Link to the post.

First connection with Neil in awhile, lots of new ideas. Link to the post.

Reposted from August 8, 2024: Got to meet Dweezil and listen the band rehearse for their show at the Moore. A gem and a brilliant even-keeled player. I'd love to see him taking a more active role in managing his father's legacy, but that isn't in the cards right now. Here they are rehearsing the challenging last lick of Punky's Whips. Link to the post.

Reposted from August 7, 2024: 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.

Reposted from August 6, 2024: 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.

Reposted from August 5, 2024: 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.

Reposted from August 4, 2024: 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.

Reposted from August 3, 2024: 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 wanderin...

Reposted from August 2, 2024: 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.

Reposted from August 1, 2025: I'm transferring all of my 4 track cassettes from 30 years ago. This is still 1995: I was inspired by marijuana and Yamasuka Eye to do something vocal with just the sound of my breath. Another 4 track thing from my archives. Link to the post.

Reposted from July 31, 2025: More 4 track things from 30 years ago. I recorded tons of collages like this, trusting that I'd be able to find something dreamlike in there. Link to the post.

Reposted from July 30, 2025: More 4 track things from 30 years ago. My brother started making short movies in high school, and this would eventually be the theme for More Guitar, the plot of which I'm still not sure I can summarize. I like how it sounds varispeed though - this would later get a mariachi feel after I enlisted friends to render the melody with trumpets and trombone. Link to the...

Reposted from July 29, 2025: 1995, four tracks on a cassette. Throwing all the exotica I had in the house at this tiny motif - melodica, varispeed guitaras, harmonics for percussion. Link to the post.

Caudal Peduncle vibraslap fest - I'm hoping we have a contest where the first 5 people to count the correct number of vibraslaps wins big prizes. Link to the post.

Litho week for Caudal Peduncle. Man I am lovin the guitar sounds we're getting - it's my Fender Musicmaster Bass AND my AC-30, plus Kurt's collection of SGs. This red one is what I played most of the time this week. Link to the post.

Mike's dreams are dashed in the studio. What a blast recording Caudal Peduncle this week. Link to the post.

Reposted from July 25, 2025: "Better Taos". This is a ten-lined june beetle. Link to the post.

Reposted from July 24, 2025: Bola Sete Triads vs the preacher. Link to the post.

We are working dilligently to tighen up bits and pieces of our Caudal Peduncle set before we record w/Kurt at Litho next week. Link to the post.

Late night moog noodle. Link to the post.

This is a very fun slidey thing to play with, from January of this year. Another ingredient in my never-ending Slider Rays piece. Link to the post.

This is a fun little exercise that forces me to start slow and work my way up to speed. I think I'm feeling the metronome above 80 bpm, but I'm not! Link to the post.