there’s no guidance when random rules

"I made many, many pieces of music using more complex variations of the idea that it's possible to think of a system or a set of rules which once set in motion will create music for you." ~ Brian Eno

And Remember

Finally revisiting a "tape loop" experiment. Your participation requested!

burst into heaven

Well, looky here! It was on this very date (and a Thursday too!) in 1999 that I made an official announcement of sorts that I had a new musical project called The Marble Tea. Judging from the quality of the song, it's easy to see that then, as now, I had no real shame.

sleep drone #1

Several months ago I rediscovered the benefits of falling asleep to soothing music. It had been a while...

jonathan livingstone, i presume

I've been playing with my computer lately, and I was having fun writing out little parts for piano and then assigning them to other instruments - a bagpipe, for instance - just to see what it would sound like. Well, this got me thinking it might be fun to try to piece together a song by writing and recording the parts on one instrument and then assigning the part to another, and then try to piece something somewhat coherent out of it all.

14 songs in 28 days

FAWM stands for February Album Writing month, and there's a free album I did for that inside this post.

big science

Here's an old recording I found lying around on my hard drive. I was hesitant to put it up here because, even though I like the song very much, the vocals really bother me and my intentions to re-do them never fully materialized (and probably never will).

adventures in sound #1

I recently attended an event that included the playing of crystal bowls, and found that the frequencies of certain bowls - each associated with one of our chakras - especially when played together, though not simultaneously, stirred great emotion and curiosity within me.