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In the Region of Leeds
Another RPM album preview, presumably about football? [more inside]
4 pieces of slow
This song sounds like a demo for a silly general keyboard that you play in Target to annoy people.
Take Up Yer Cudgels
Place your bets, ladies and gents! The fight is about to start! [more inside]
Musings of a Plastic Cow
As a very wise man (vs sun) once told me, "I warned you about opening the stupid vault. Once it has been opened, it can never be closed."
As it has been written, so shall it be done. [more inside]
Synaptic Constellations
I'd like to dip deeeeeeeeeeeeeep into the well of Gyrophonic past (less than 2 years ago) to one of our first recorded improv sessions--divided into 6 contiguous "movements." [more inside]
Glass Bell
A semi-minimalistic improv, built around a repeating rhythmic pattern. [more inside]
Sierpinski Triangle
Upon a Bundle of Sticks (Art or Not Art?)
An older bit of spoken-word, written by man vs sun. Part 1 of 2. [more inside]
Auld Lang Syne
Happy New Year, Metafilter. [more inside]
The Always of the Always
Man vs Blue, Mvt. VI: Finale (May 11, 1997)
The final movement of my first (and, so far, only) composition, a multi-movement improvisational piece for acoustic vs. electronic instruments, based on the 1997 rematch set of chess games between Garry Kasparov and the computer, Deep Blue. [more inside]
Aleatoric Boogie Man
Sometimes, even that which goes bump in the night has to get down with chance. [more inside]
No Known Survivors
Something horrible has happened in this place. It will never be the same. Be thankful you weren't present. [more inside]
Albuquerque
Nothing says "Happy 50th birthday" to your first musical hero like completely destroying one of his best songs! [more inside]
There Should Have Been Cake
River Raid
Upon a Plate of Beans (A Meditation)
Everything's the Same (Except for Brighton)
Moving in stereo... [more inside]
Qipheyo (The Great Big Mulp adaptation)
Where does he get those wonderful toys? [more inside]
Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)
I'm catching up with myself, finally. [more inside]
Processing Eidolons
There's noise in the chain. [more inside]
My Own Personal Light Show
Meditations on a thunderstorm. [more inside]
European Son
Technically, it's in F major. [more inside]
The Black Angel’s Death Song
Solo vocals with delay, reverb, and amplitude modulation.
I'll Be Your Mirror
Short and sweet; a more structured offering, as well. [more inside]
There She Goes Again
Heroin
This is side two! If you want to play the record from the beginning, then please turn over. Do not play this side, if you want side one. This is side two! [more inside]
All Tomorrow's Parties
If it ain't baroque, don't fix it. [more inside]
Femme Fatale
Track #3 in Pasty Anglophiles' complete re-imagining of the VU+N album. [more inside]
I’m Waiting for the Man
An introspective take on a song that’s a lot more relaxed than it probably should be, given the subject matter.
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Sunday Morning
When Lou Reed becomes a Televangelist, God help us all. [more inside]
It's a Beautiful Day
Returning to the well of material I wrote almost a decade ago. [more inside]
The Power of Cheese
Femme Fatale (Ambient Take)
If you didn't care for our treatment of Femme Fatale (via askmeaboutloom), may we interest you in something more, possibly femme, or, I don't know, fatale? [more inside]
Femme Fatale
Skeedly Scoodly doo-bee a-scoo-boop WHOA ba-deedly doot-'n doo-wow. [more inside]
Douchebag
step one: get a guitar
step two: learn a couple chords
step three: ???
step four: douchebag. [more inside]
Flaut.
She's a bad Moogerfooger. [more inside]
Gumby-lujah
In an alternate dimension, where Leonard Cohen is from Yorkshire, stupid things happen. [more inside]
The Bunny Who Wanted to be a Rat
Would you like to hear a story, boys and girls? [more inside]
The Cheese Alarm
Exactly what we need right now. [more inside]
ba96c1f999b3299f086e8c2cd9b84558
Percussive groove session. Not a song about sandwiches. [more inside]
The Great Curve
One of my favourite songs by Talking Heads--an experiment of sorts. [more inside]
O'er Cresting Phrygian Waves
A return to roots, an experiment with new textures. [more inside]
Groove for Tomatoes (A Prayer)
Roto-Tom Synth Improv
My first and only improv drum recording...layered with my boyfriend's (the real musician) synth improv. [more inside]
Too Blue
"This was an improvisation, actually the second take (Blue 2, or "Too Blue"), during which I had the memory of the Monterey Jazz festival firmly planted in my head, remembering the incredible musicians and music I heard all over the fairgrounds, playing jazz, soul, and lots 'n lots of blues…" ~ Laurie Z.
Chair
Indie rock gone improv and conehead [more inside]
Silver Equine Heart
Dark psychedelia from deep within the Karst topography of the Missouri Ozarks . . . [more inside]
The ConstruKction of Light
King Crimson cover
No Talking From You!
When a spoken-word performance goes wrong, improvise. [more inside]