2016 project: Put my solo work from the last few years onto Spotify, iTunes, Amazon, etc. The permanency of these commercial uploads requires (re)mastering and attention to details often overlooked in the flurry of my usual ad-hoc self-releasing. Particle Theory (2014) is first up. Every spin puts a shred of lettuce on a sandwich and thus always appreciated.…
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Particle Theory
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16 November 2014
Drifting Moon/Spinning… |
Turnaround, Annie
she didn’t feel suspicious – or paranoid
she didn’t see the distance – into the void
she learned to play with all the memories – like toys
she said it made it easier to drown the noiseshe worked for years – to create confusion
as she waited for life to reveal itself as an illusion
along the way she learned not to search for conclusionsas we drove the roads around my house
she wasn’t gonna stop until she broke down
all those angry hoursshe said, “don’t tell me when to turn around…
“i’ll tell you when we turn around
“just keep driving towards the moon
“don’t you dare turn around6am underneath the subway tracks
she said if that train was a plane I’d jump right on its back
then she rolled her eyes and taught me how to fade to blackas we drove the roads around my house
she wasn’t gonna stop until she broke down
all those angry hoursshe said, “don’t tell me when to turn around…
“i’ll tell you when we turn around
“just keep driving towards the moon
“don’t you dare turn around
Drifting Moon / Spinning Earth (drum remix)
So this is awesome. Producer and musician Lee Rosevere asked if he could “bash and crash” over Drifting Moon / Spinning Earth, so I stripped the original drum and percussion tracks and sent him a pre-master studio file. From 3000 miles away, he came back with the glorious result above.…
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Melody Chaos
Inspired by New Orleans, where making melody out of chaos is the art.
…So there you have it, we wrote our ticket out
We’re headed anywhere we want to choose.We never really planned it, just never had doubts
We were going somewhere – never gonna loseYeah, the stakes are high
But our vision’s clear
Maybe neither of us is pure, but our moment’s hereIt’s ok to embrace uncertainty
A quiet life we may never see
So for now this noise makes a symphonyIn the middle of chaos, you’re my melody
so here I’m landing, took the red eye out
I see the causeway that leads to youSt Mary guides us down from the clouds
Harmony carries us throughSo there you have it, we wrote our ticket out
We’re headed anywhere we want to choose.
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Drifting Moon / Spinning Earth
…Drifting Moon / Spinning Earth
09.28.2014 1:22a, 09.30.2014 10:34p, 10.01.2014 6:30p, 10.03.2014 8:35pShe had to leave Ohio
Find a strength she’d never known
She had to shed her skin
What she was was too far away from what she was withinYou pay the price / To be yourself
When you’re not the one / The world expectedBut we are each a universe
Where every drifting moon / Deserves a spinning Earth
Everything you are, we are, too.
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Roadside Justice
24 August 2014, 2:34am
In front of the firing line
You’ll look up at the blue sky
And we’ll trace the route to each other’s eyesIn the wake that’s left behind
As the sounds of the gun shots die
You’ll leave this world with your head held highDon’t look for justice at the side of the road
Don’t trust the crowd
We are on our ownYou will live in the memory of birds
The wind will carry your words
Your dreams will serve as my alibiTruth is a lonely place
Lonely as a human raceDon’t look for justice at the side of the road
Don’t trust the crowd
We are on our ownIn the wake that’s left behind
As the sounds of the war drums die
We leave this world with our heads held high
Truth Is A Lonely Place (Lee Rosevere Remix) [disquiet0138]
Collaboration with Lee Rosevere, wonderful (and prolific) Canadian producer and musician.
leerosevere.bandcamp.com
happypuppyrecords.ca
Lee’s liner notes:
…When this project was launched, I emailed my online buddy Westy Reflector @thereflectors to see if he’d be up for a collaboration and I was thrilled he agreed. I’ve wanted to do a big huge ambient landscape with his glorious guitar tracks and this seemed like a perfect opportunity.
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truth is a lonely place [disquiet0138-videosonicvoid]
PROJECT
Compose a 2.5-minute soundtrack to complement the silent video “Untitled #8, 2004″ by the artist Josh Azzarella. The video is intended by the artist as a “Never Ending Loop,” as is this audio accompaniment.
Untitled #8, 2004 from Josh Azzarella on Vimeo.
If not visible above, view the video here:
vimeo.com/21678371…
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sum + difference [disquiet0130-filteredmelody]
4 notes. 3 intervals of 3. then 12 pedals. Made mathematical sense, so the title references “An Individual Note” by Daphne Oram, this month’s Junto reading selection (I’ve only gotten as far as pg 50, tho). Image is my pedal board through a kaleidoscopic app.
Finally had an excuse to put my Pigtronix Infinity at the head of the effects chain.…
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the shimmer of stars in green water
An homage in drone to Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s “Wind, Sand and Stars.”
“The first stars tremble as if shimmering in green water. Hours must pass before their glimmer hardens into the frozen glitter of diamonds…”
welcome to the interzone [disquiet0110-wsb100]
This New York Post headline (“I Could Have Saved Him”) screamed at me from a newsstand on 5th Avenue and 9th Street in Brooklyn a couple days after receiving this week’s challenge, and I couldn’t shake it. As the weekend closed, I looked at the front pages of all the other papers in town with this challenge in mind, including a couple hyperlocal rags (NY Times, NY Observer, NY Daily News, Brooklyn Eagle, Park Slope Courier, etc…), but no other story stuck with me like this one, falling lock-step into the context of this Junto challenge celebrating the 100th birthday of William S.…
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intransitive disapperance [disquiet0108-freebassel]
PROCESS
Connected to this assignment, and wanted to do some small part to keep Bassel’s cause and case out front. I’m not a foley artist and field recording is not my game, though, so consider this less a soundscape than a track that might run over closing credits.
Married some royalty-free congas, tambourines and trap kit loops on an Acid timeline.…
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All The Rage
…She spent 27 years in an inland town
And she dared herself to rage every time she stopped looking down
And then the ad in the paper said
“Dreams come true, just get downtown and see you know who –
If you know how to rage, then we want you!”
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Particle Theory
Life imprints sentience on the particles we cede back to the universe upon passing. Death is decentralization, not expiration, of consciousness. Each of our muons and protons and electrons comprises the cumulative wisdom of all that has experienced life before. We are each one, and we are each all.
My friend John Arthur passed on 22 October 2013.…
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