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2011.03.24: Cello, Mandolin, Baritone Ukulele (Part 2)
The second and final chapter of our little improvised suite of minimalist strings. This bit features a rhythmic drone on electric mandolin. Enjoy. [more inside]
2011.03.24: Cello, Baritone Ukulele, Electric Mandolin
Part 1 from a small suite of minimalist, all-string improvisations. [more inside]
The Pope is Dead. Long Live the Pope.
They'd probably save a lot of trouble and idiocy at the Vatican if they would only institute this policy. [more inside]
Francesco Todeschini Piccolomini
Pope Pius III: His Facebook fan page says it all, but that may be because he served as pope for less time than William Henry Harrison served as POTUS. [more inside]
Rodrigo de Lanzòl-Borgia
What is possibly left to be said of Pope Alexander VI that hasn't already been said? Answer: Honestly, compared to the standards of secular nobility of the time, he really wasn't any worse. [more inside]
Giovanni Battista Cybo
Meet the inappropriately-named Pope Innocent VIII. Witch hunter. Innovator in the field of immolation. Simonist. Slave regifter. And don't forget about his army of bastard children placed the Vatican on the brink of financial ruin. [more inside]
Francesco della Rovere
Pope Sixtus IV was another notorious practitioner of nepotism. A member of the Franciscan Order of Friars, he was responsible for the commissioning of the Sistine Chapel, and authorized an Inquisition targeting converted (Jewish) Christians in Spain, at the request of Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand. He was largely responsible for endorsing the burgeoning artistic movements leading to the Italian Renaissance, but also renewed the crusade against the Turks and reinforced the slavery policy. [more inside]
Pietro Barbo
Paul II was a poster child (or grand-nephew) of papal nepotism. This fellow made it more difficult to downsize church government because of his tendancy to appoint new cardinals in private. Oh yeah, he also loved bling and some accounts cite his fatal heart attack happening whilst being sodomized by his boy lover. [more inside]
Enea Silvio Piccolomini
Pope Pius II, surprisingly, seems to have been a pretty legitimately good and interesting person; even serving as poet laureate of Austria before eventually ending up in, and finally head of, the largest organized crime syndicate in history. However, his greatest crime could be seen as being indirectly responsible for the Twilight series. [more inside]
Alfonso de Borja
You probably knew him better as Pope Callixtus III. His legacy, aside from his advanced age, feebleness and incompetence, is marked by a widely-spread (and patently false) rumor that he successfully exorcised Halley's Comet in 1456. [more inside]
Tommaso Parentucelli
Also known as Pope Nicholas V, he didn't seem like such a bad guy, for the most part...other than the whole "Papal consent to the slave trade" thing. Live recorded video is available. [more inside]
My Favourite Bathtime Gurgles
Also known as Zen and the Art of Going to the Lavatory, also by Grunthos the Flatulent, we present a second excerpt of Vogon Poetry, as we have imagined it. [more inside]
Ode to a Small Lump of Green Putty I Found in my Armpit One Midsummer Morning
Vogon poetry is of course, the third worst in the universe. By Grunthos the Flatulent. [more inside]
Felix II (AD356-7)
The first anti-track from our impending RPM2011 album, The Golden Age of Bastards, video is available here. [more inside]
2010.11.11: Vibes, Basitar, Flaut, Vox
It always comes down to food and/or pants. I don't know why. [more inside]
Auld Lang Syne
In keeping with tradition, here again are the Demons of Gyrophonia ringing in 2011 with the same old song. [more inside]
We Three Kings
And finally, The Christmas Album closes on a low note--literally, this time. After all, where's the fun in having a contrabassoon at your disposal if you're not going to do something wacky with it?*
*Headphones recommended for maximum head-rattling [more inside]
Ukrainian Crab Carol (Shchedryk)
Alright, time to ruin Christmas with the gift of Crabtone. [more inside]
Angels We Have Heard On High
Coalstockings (Blacklung)
Now for, perhaps, the most abstract experiment on the album, and another test of our previously stated theory. [more inside]
Mountain Instrument Medley
A swirling medley of carols from Cousin Jim's back porch. [more inside]
Bad Santa
An original composition by our own Tommy Scheurich, and another experiment in instant festivity. [more inside]
Up on the Housetop
Because this holiday tune appears on every beginning band's premiere concert program, it's one of my favorite to mock. [more inside]
What Child is This?
We all thought as hard as we could, to come up with a Christmas song that none of us hate, so we could do it semi-reverently, in a manner which at least resembles proper. It took so many takes to get it right that now we hate this song, too. [more inside]
Silent Night
Santa's Slay
The first of two experiments on The Christmas Album, testing the hypothesis that [x] + sleighbells = instant festivity. [more inside]
O Tannenbaum
Jingle Bells
A quick introduction of our two newest toys, and the first track off our new Christmas album. [more inside]
Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer (A Dramatic Reenactment)
I recently discovered this bit of classic radio-recorded vinyl. Enjoy a blast from the (present) past. [more inside]
Party Gorilla!
Lyrics and text by The Oatmeal, taken from his brilliant comic. I basically read it and thought "Cortex should turn this into a hyper-ballad." Man vs sun then suggested we should make one, instead. Here is the result. [more inside]
Larynges(n+1)
Recorded 2 October, 2010 at the Oklahoma Composers Association Salon Concert in Norman, OK, this is a live improvisation with the aid of our audience. [more inside]
Eventual Response System (2010.09.02 edition)
Unplanned, meant to sound planned; followed by planned, meant to sound unplanned; rinse; repeat. [more inside]
2010.09.02-08: Horn/Viola Duo
Featuring Tommy Scheurich on viola, and me on horn (with and without effects), with Trey Beauregard on Assorted Miscellany.
2010.09.02-04: Effected Accordion Solo
Perhaps the best thing you can ever do to an accordion. Accordion by Tommy Scheurich, live effects manipulation by me, Timbill Corder. [more inside]
2010.09.02-01: Cello, Guitbass, QSR, Flaut
The debut of my new, beautiful Telecaster Guitbass, and a lovely bit of ambience to kick off the session. [more inside]
2010.09.02-10: Vocal Loop
Build a loop, add some licks, and before you know it, you're groovin'. [more inside]
2010.08.26-04: Cello Solo with Delay
The title says it all. Effects are manipulated live by yours truly, cello by Tommy Scheurich. Check out the video here, taken by Trey Beauregard (man vs sun). [more inside]
2010.08.26-03: Viola & Effects
I can't get enough electric viola. [more inside]
2010.08.26-02: Violin Electric Guitar QSR
Ambient transdentalism, featuring Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, and John Cale...well, not exactly. [more inside]
2010.08.19-05: Rejection
In a thread MajorDundee started a few weeks ago, he poses a query, "What talismans, icons etc do you have in your musical workspace?"
Allow me to expand upon my response... [more inside]
2010.08.26-01: Electric Horn, Electric Guitar, Cello
Experimenting in experimentation with various experiments. [more inside]
I'm the Scapegoat (But I Don't Eat Garbage)
Gyrophonia goes burlesque...or perhaps the other way 'round. I'm not quite certain which. [more inside]
Borderline
Tommy would make a good Dalek. [more inside]
Death and Transcolouration
He died once... [more inside]
INCORRECT.
Subtlety doesn't come easy when you're all insane. [more inside]
Crabtone
This sort of nonsense should be kept under wraps. [more inside]
Permyriad
The basis point of insanity, as explained by a mad violist, so concludes An Evening With... [more inside]