Torrada Torrada (“Toast! Toast!”) is a Brazilian cooking show hosted by Luanda Gazoni. Two weeks ago, they used my track ok off of Hola, Sayulita! and Reflected.10×10 as a soundtrack to making perfect fluffy rice (vid embedded below, too). This time, Man Again, the Free Music Archive bonus track off Transient Lines, serves as a soundtrack to the creation of a carrot cake with chocolate ganache icing (recipe in Portuguese).…
continued...
Bassling + Lee Rosevere + Nofi: Riding High Waves (remix of “riding waves”)
A 2nd remix by Bassling (Jason Richardson) of my riding waves. In it, Bassling adds his deft bass to Lee Rosevere‘s percussion and vibraphone, my guitar and nofi‘s original track. This rounded-out full-on quartet performance creates unexpected harmonic convergences and becomes a whole (and real) band – thankfully without van politics, ego mastications and “yellow-M&Ms-only” rider demands.…
continued...
Kyle TM – Wvrdr (remix of a remix of “riding waves”)
Enigmatic and multi-faceted South Carolina artist Kyle TM layered soft breaking white noise swells, seagull calls and a rhythmic water drop over a remix of my “riding waves” by Tokyo-sound artist Naotko (Naoyuki Sasanami) for the 132nd Disquiet Junto challenge. Inasmuch as dreams are recursions of reality, the result here is a dream-state that expands on a story, grounding it in a new place and making a statement on the conscious filtering that makes up perception.…
continued...
ok: fluffy rice
Torrada Torrada (“Toast! Toast!”) is a Brazilian cooking show hosted by Luanda Gazoni. In a 100% fun creative commons usage, my track ok off of Hola, Sayulita! and Reflected.10×10 soundtracks how to make perfect fluffy rice.
ok is a dance(able) track dedicated to friends far and wide. Food and friends are so often synonymous, so this is a wonderful fit.…
continued...
Lee Rosevere: Riding High Waves (remix of “riding waves”)
Canadian musician, producer and label founder Lee Rosevere used my riding waves for the 132nd disquiet junto challenge, adding hi-hats, cymbals and triggered rhythmic vibraphone flourishes. His additions lend an elegance to the track, highlighting and engaging all sorts of spaces without causing any clutter. From the soundcloud track description:
…I didn’t want to get in the way of Westy’s guitar and took a cue from his introduction of the melody of “Mercy Street” to play mostly hi-hat and cymbals, ala Stewart Copeland (who appears playing cymbals on Peter Gabriel’s SO album..
continued...
Words Of [ABARTH 500] Release
Published on Jul 14, 2014
Trofeo ABARTH 500 | tappa Mugello Circuit | 12.07.2014 | riprese: fabio D’Arco | editing: www.labvideo.it | musiche: CC Westy Reflector – “Words Of Release”Trofeo Abarth 500 | stage Mugello Circuit | 07.12.2014 | shooting: fabio D’Arco | editing: www.labvideo.it | music: CC Westy Reflector – “Words Of Release”
Bassling: Unmistakable Release (remix of riding waves)
Australian multi-instrumentalist Bassling layered a haunting bass line and Rust Cohle’s (Matthew McConaughey) equally chilling rumination on death from True Detective over my track riding waves [disquiet0066-nonofi].
…I added a favourite monologue from True Detective where Rusty Cohle ruminates on death. My partner immediately called out that it worked, so I left it in.
continued...
npr studio360 review: between stations (yellow dog blues) [disquiet0125-junto360blues]
Honored to have been highlighted as one of the two best tracks among some stellar contributions. Produced originally for Disquiet Junto challenge 0125.
via:
http://www.studio360.org/story/1914-blues-challenge-marc-anthony-thompson-picks-winners/
…By far the longest submission at 9:17, Westy Reflector sandwiches his psychedelically influenced cover in the static of a radio dial. Reflector (born Dave Westreich) tells Thompson, “No one in the story is in a fixed place.
continued...
long colombian road ahead
Ricardo Llano Gonzalez takes a 133-kilometer motorcycle ride set to Long Road Ahead. Bogotá -La Calera -Guasca -Sopó -Bogotá. Sweet.
…Published on Jun 22, 2014
Otra vez cogimos nuestras Royal Enfields 350cc con @JayBarbaNegra a ver qué nos trae la carretera.Nuestras motos nos llevaron por la siguiente ruta: Bogotá – La Calera – Chingaza – Guasca – Sopó – Bogotá.
continued...
music manumit pick: i must have love
Music Manumit’s Music Only Podcast is co-hosted by Tom Ray of Lorenzo’s Music and Doug Whitfield of Netizen Empowerment Federation. My track “i must have love” off of still echoes was Tom’s pick to lead off the December 8th show. Those guys have interviewed and showcased a lot of creative commons artists that I dig, and the podcast opens as many worlds as rabbit holes.…
continued...
mule radio 83
My track “fire in the arcade (the reflectors)” follows a Superchunk song called Digging For Something in this 83rd episode of Mule Radio’s The Mixtape. Made my day.
Download all of the tracks at once: freemusicarchive.org/member/timothy…ape_episode_83
Voices – Simon Mathewson
La Façon dont la Machine vers l’Arrière – Brian Jonestown Massacre
Tsuro Magena – Thomas Mapfumo and The Blacks Unlimited
Pleasantries – Tyler Jon Tyler
Love Me Like You – The Mythics
Sunday – Fire To The Stars
Preludium – 2 TOTEMS
Arnold Lane – Joe Boyd and Robyn Hitchcock
I Can’t Lose – The Chamber Strings
While You’re Sleeping, I’m Dreaming – Tamaryn
Jeanne Moreau – Souvenir Driver
I Feel Your Pain – Eric and Magill
Island on Fire – Monster Rally
The Creak of the Landline – Zapruder Point
Promises Promises – Barreracudas
Digging For Something – Superchunk
fire in the arcade – Westy Reflector
Good To Be Alone – The Bomb Busters
Caixa de Vidro – Stray
Bruce – Yellow Dogs
Mockinpott – Cordonegro
April 13th – Bait And Switch
Fifty/Fifty – Today’s Man
Noise Problems Selection – The Ray Pacino Ensemble
Highty Hangtime – Julian Winter
Transient [Drawing] Lines
Transient Lines (bandcamp | freemusicarchive) – the entire record – soundtracks artist Eric M Smith‘s drawing and painting of a griffin in real time. Bonus sound artifact: the environmental sounds of Smith’s pen and ink-on-paper strokes are left underneath the music, which I always <3. Bonus trivia: The Higgins Ink original factory and the mansion behind it in which the Higgins family lived are 50 yards down the block and across the street from my home in Brooklyn. The factory was converted into apartments in the 70s and the mansion now houses a music school. Full circles, everywhere.
Published on Feb 17, 2014…
Drawing and painting a griffin.
continued...
one city new zealand
Following Dave Kent down Bull Run.
Bull Run trail one of the latest addition to the Belmont Regional Park, built by Belmont Area Mountain Bike Association (BAMBA).
More information about mountain biking in Belmont Regional Park.
Music: One City by Westy ReflectorFilmed on GoPro Hero 3 with Chest mount
Settings: 1080p at 30fps
This vid made me smile this week.…
continued...
tweed square: caffeineix
I am an unabashed and long-time coffee enthusiast, so this use of Tweed Square [disquiet0020] to tell the story of one day in a Phoenix, Arizona, coffee shop, made my morning. “Caffeine – ix,” get it? :^D
…© 2013. Video shot and produced by Chloe R. Brooks, Journalism and Mass Communication student at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
continued...
12th step: treviso motorcycle
A motorcycle ride through the Italian countryside with Venetian Marco Carraro, seen through a Go Pro Hero 3+.
…Bored, on a cold December Saturday, I enjoyed a great afternoon riding through Montello’s Woods (north of Treviso, Italy). In those places, during the World War I, the Italian Army fought against the Austrians who wanted to cross the Piave River.
continued...
master yoyo steve brown: soundtracks
Professional yoyo demonstrator Steve Brown used snippets of a number of my tracks over the last coupe months to soundtrack some amazing yoyo moves. These make me happy…
…12/24/13
"Performing isn't about the hardest tricks you can do, it's about the biggest. Here's one I've always enjoyed filling stage space with."
continued...
[disquiet review] prologue: in recollection and amazement
Wonderful review of the opening track of transient lines by marc weidenbaum of disquiet.com
…If noise music is ambient music turned up loud, then shoegaze is ambient music with a beat. Not just any beat, mind you, but a beat that emerges from the ebb and flow of the underlying drone, a beat that recognizes the rhythmic content in the flow of the drone and that latches onto it, building a hard lattice that supports the seemingly ethereal initial audio.
continued...
Words Of Release Ride The Planet
My track Words Of Release soundtracks an extreme ride down Uganda’s White Nile River. Awesome that a song about peace makes such sense against raging waters. Wonderful cinematography. My track starts approximately 01:50.
Uganda’s politics around self-expression and gender are not aligned with mine (understatement), but you rarely have control over where your music is placed (just ask Chrissy Hynde about Rush Limbaugh’s daily use of My City Was Gone).…
continued...
Grzegorz Bojanek: One Hot Day (remix of Call Pop)
Grzegorz Bojanek, also known as Eta Carinae, is an xclnt electro-acoustic musician from Poland. For a Junto remix project, he sampled guitar from my track Call Pop (both original versions below), and created a wonderfully dreamy track called One Hot Day, which appears on his latest release Constraints, a collection of tracks originally composed for the Disquiet.com…
continued...
naotko: riding waves (remix)
stunning Naotko (Naoyuki Sasanami) remix of my tribute to jeffrey melton (http://www.nofi.org). my original track is below naotko’s notes.
added keyboards and some dubs @thereflectors