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The final album version of a song that my band usually calls “the loop song” As it might be obvious, the beginning is usually played with a loop sampler.

A return to roots, an experiment with new textures. This improv feels like a return to some of the tracks we recorded in the early days of Demons of Gyrophonia (less than 8 months ago), though on significantly better equipment (our first album was recorded on a pair of Rock Band mics). I’ve recently [...]

A song that was sort of spontaneously written just over ten years ago. One of my sad songs about water. This came out of an evening/weekend music-making session that I attended at my friend Dan Buzzo’s place at some point in the late 1990s. There were synths and drum machines going, and at one point [...]

As a personal homework assignment to prepare for writing a string quartet, I’ve been programming scores of various 20th Century string quartets into Cakewalk SONAR. Here’s a recording of Fratres by Arvo Pärt. I’m using the Orkester samples in Reason to recreate the quartet. The samples don’t contain harmonics, which are called for at the [...]

I don’t know what this is; kind of a pseudo-jugband, neo-bluegrass-ish, Hee-Haw with a whiney singer. I asked ORthey to play some banjo on it.
And he did!

by Hugo Ball This is not the studio version, it is the much rarer bootleg many of you have seen on the torrent sites. I have decided rather than keep fighting to suppress it I would just give in to the fans and release it here officially.

A song for Memorial Day, posted a few days late. So I had this tune kicking around the back of my head, not much more than half a melody, for about a week. It had been placed in my head (I eventually recalled) by a visiting friend playing guitar at our campfire a few [...]

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