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Another cello loop improv this week.

Contrary to popular belief, I still make beat oriented music. This is a rough outline of a song that I worked on while at Yachats on the coast. It’s based on two things: a field recording of the frogs and surf outside my window and marc fischer’s excellent dust breeding plug-in In a way, it’s kind of fractal in that I run the output through the plug in several times, transposing the sounds down an octave each time, producing a layered harmonic structure.

I often have many sections sketched out of a song, which I will cut and paste until the structure makes musical sense to me. The real artistry is then figuring out the transitions between sections so everything is seamless or surprising. This one is not quite there yet.

At the coast (Yachats) this weekend and listening to the frogs outside my window inspired this.

Just guitar this time through, no cello (taking a break this week).

Track this week is a draft shoegazer piece featuring both cello and guitar.

TOTW this week is an experiment with a harmonizer I just bought. Sounds crazy on cello.

Track this week is an ambient track I submitted for audiobulb recordings project ‘endless endless’ ( http://www.audiobulb.com/ – select ‘projects’), an endless mix of ambient recordings. This was recorded in a single take.

Track this week is the raw material for another finished track, which I coincidentally named “Bee Symphony”, way before Marcus Davidson had the idea.

Also would like to mention that this is track of the week #20. Whoo!

An ode to Lorca this week. A cue for a soundtrack, simple guitar and cello.

Here’s the recording of the live show I did with my friend John Berendzen as the opening act for Faith Helma’s show “Undine” on Friday June 5, 2009.

I am pretty much just playing uneffected (although with some pitchdelay in sections) and John is playing his synths that are tuned using just intonation and looping both of us with his 8-part looper whose lengths correspond to numbers in the harmonic series.

I have been feeling jittery all weekend (due to neighbors playing brazillian hardcore for 8 hrs last night). I wrote this to help me fall asleep tonight. Single pass with my new looping/drone setup, with minimal effects.