musical thoughts

I’ve been a Rhodes player for 27 years, but I am also now a Wurlitzer player.

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I get asked somewhat frequently whether I have an album. As of now, I do, and you can download it freely under the Creative Commons license.

read more of audio: concursion

Another fantastic ninjam for your entertainment.

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Another Ninjam mixed for your listening pleasure.

read more of audio: Two Jokers Wild

Another ninjam mixdown for your listening pleasure

read more of audio: Tango Combinado

This is one of the first actual online collaborative projects I’ve done. I just never posted the completed product. A fellow YouTuber reached out to me and asked if I’d like to collaborate on some Deep House kind of things. I said yes, and here’s what ultimately happened.

read more of audio: Buddha Knows Best (rob mix)

This is an entry in a contest, which is something I usually don’t mess with. I would have done this even without the contest though.

read more of audio: Really, Really Weird

I’ve been using NINJAM for about a year or so now to play with other musicians online. Sometimes the experience is unbelievably excellent. This is a mix of one of those sessions.

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Ligeti’s Atmosphères is a piece that had a profound impact on me. I actually studied the score before hearing it, and heard it outside the film score context where most people encountered it. I think I was in my mid teens at the time. I had access to a university library and a really hip professor that turned us on to some great modern compositions.

I’m interested especially in the way the usual musical devices were forsaken in this piece in favor of big blocks of sound, and the impact that had on the creation and release of tension. I’ve been looking for a way to do my own experimentation along these lines. I found a fairly satisfactory set of tools, and here’s my first effort at trying to adopt this sort of musical vocabulary.

read more of audio: etude after Ligeti

More audio. More format breaking. More madness.

read more of audio: son of volvox