November 12
Dance46
November 6
An Even Newer Kind of Beat 2
Entropic Landing
Wrote it in Garageband on a plane from Seattle to Austin.
Electronic, trying to make synthwave. Maybe it's transgaywave.
November 3
Remote! // Kanye Made This Ok
The last song on the album Magic 8 Ball that I made with my bandmate Ari Brown; Now streaming on Spotify, Apple Music, and everywhere else [more inside]
October 28
The Process
October 27
The wildest place I know
October 26
Squares are the future
October 22
virtual confetti
One great joy of MetaFilter is to read the thoughts of strangers, and to be caused to dream, from even just a few of their words, of their intellect, their talent, their wealth of experience and their great humanity.
Of one of you dreamish strangers, I’d like to take the chance to say (well ... to warble, off-key): congratulations. On her upcoming wedding day. [more inside]
October 16
'Creep' cover on the OP-1
I think I'm getting the hang of this thing. I got most of the way through comping this out and writing a melody when I realized I liked this better. There's singing eventually. [more inside]
October 1
mineshaft
September 30
We Lose With Dignity
SIM3
September 29
The Flowers
September 24
Smoke
Pretty proud of the vocals. This is a weird one, but my most haunting song yet. I had an image of a supernatural, quiet kind of nightmare where the narrator has a horrible premonition that something is coming for her, tries to run away, but cannot get far enough.
September 23
flUke
I've had this descending chord progression stuck in my head for a few weeks so I decided to record it and cut it up. Another OP-1 jam. [more inside]
September 22
Perfect and Simple
September 18
Caroline
Partial Photonic Boundary
September 17
Taxi in Cairo
September 16
Tell Her I Love Her
September 11
Open to the Sky
Dark ambient "uneasy listening" from my new Bandcamp release, 11 Spells.
Software and Eurorack synthesizers.
September 9
Big red sky
It's been a while since I posted any of my new songs here. What do you think of my kind of new direction (and quality of the recording)?
Alternative folk-ish, acoustic song with clean vocals, guitar, mandolin, harmonies. Sounds happy but the lyrics are not. [more inside]
September 8
Ed Steamhams - Cooking Out Loud
Oh ye gods, Ed's song is ruined! But...what if I were to write parody lyrics and disguise them as his own songwriting? Oh ho ho ho, delightfully devilish, cortex! [more inside]
September 6
The Counterforce
I'm fairly sure when I picked up my guitar tonight I only intended to practise for a bit, not make a short garage instrumental called The Counterforce, yet here we are. [more inside]
September 5
Life, Alexander
I say that I wrote this song the day my son was born. What I mean is that sitting in a hospital room after a day full of chaos, with my partner asleep and safe for now, I opened my computer to stare at the screen and type out the few lines I had in me. I wrote what felt in that moment like advice--the only advice I had to offer to the tiny baby in an incubator in an adjacent wing. After an early morning of liver failure, pacing, sobbing, and an emergency C-section, I didn't have a lot left.
[more inside]
September 3
Arps-speriment #3: Soothing Arps
September 1
uke bass ditty bath
I played around with my uke bass tonight while keeping umbuzinho company as he splashed around in the bath.
August 28
Communion Prelude
August 19
Arps-speriment #2
August 15
Third King From the Sun
August 13
Falling Awake (2)
Rerecording of Falling Awake. I'm recording an album (right now!) with a friend, which is very exciting. The direction is very different for me, a kind of uplifting take on my melancholy songs. This one builds, and is heavily indebted to Northern Sky by Nick Drake.
Features guitalele, drums, harpsichord, organ, bass, piano, harmonies at the end.
We're still recording and this hasn't really been mixed, so all thoughts welcome! [more inside]
Lark
August 12
Georgia St.
A crazy cross-collab that took place in late 2011 with the help of my unreal pals, Warren and Danye. Big ups to Dan for finding this one on his laptop! [more inside]
Bluebird Wine plugs in
That is, I just got an electric guitar for the first time and it features heavily in my new song, "Georgia." Catchy, moody indie folk/folk rock tune.
August 10
wake up song (in D: for Dog, did he begin to pray?)
This is one of two plus songs written by mistake/default around iphone wake-up tones. Y'know, you wake up at some godawful hour with that godwaffle loop in your ear and eventually you're going to make something of it. I mean...you'd hope, Godwaffles. You'd hope. [more inside]
August 9
10 - vaporwave - vampire deer
and finally, the caution doors ends with a hazy sign off and a test pattern ... and lots of feedback [more inside]
August 7
Vibtone
August 6
09 - stop the whole damned train of the world
August 5
Florida Lee
Carbon 7 is an improvisational/experimental trio that creates spontaneous music at the moment it's recorded. I left a tad of dialog at the beginning, so you could here our "process." Dennis gives Ron a hard time about choosing a key, then I call out C# & start it off. Clocks in at a whopping 26.5 minutes, but it evolves slowly the entire way. [more inside]