Music
Music is of great importance to me. I spend inordinate amounts of time making and listening to music, whether it’s playing guitar or hand drums; going to shows; browsing at emusic.com and other online music stores; listening to pandora.com or last.fm internet radio, or enjoying my somewhat large (>10,000 song) music library. The goal of this area of my site is threefold: (1) to share recordings of my guitar playing with whoever might be interested in hearing it; (2) to share my tastes and recommendations; and (3) to share the resources I find most useful in discovering and obtaining great new music.
My Recordings
(Caveat: these are first takes! Scratchpad/back-of-napkin ideas. But what the hell.)Line6 PodXTLive->Boss RC20XL->M-Audio Ozone->Audacity->.mp3(256kbps)
- (8:45) Dec. 16 2005 - “echoes”(1 electric guitar track, with 3 loops and 1 additional lead line; simple and melancholy progression, with lots of reverb and cleaner tone on the lead line
- (4:09) Dec. 13 2005 - “jazz plush”(1 electric guitar track, with a loop and a lead track, odd mix of undistorted jazz progression, followed by heavily distorted lead line. as usual, just 1 improvised take)
- (8:33) Dec. 11 2005 - “eruption noise v2″(1 electric guitar track, with a loop and a lead track, using distortion settings
similar to van halen’s “eruption” - second take on same theme, slower and longer) - (6:08) Dec. 11 2005 - “eruption noise”(1 electric guitar track, with a loop and a lead track, using distortion settings
similar to van halen’s “eruption” - time to blow off some steam) - (19:11) Dec 4, 2005 - “Snow Funk”(1 mono electric guitar track, with live looping to build up 3-4 layers) … unfortunately there’s a little clipping on the bassline, which I haven’t been able to remove. hope you can enjoy it anyway.
- (5:08) Oct. 2005 - “treehouse” short film soundtrack(2 acoustic guitar tracks, with multilayered loop on the first)
- (4:11) Apr. 2005 - “Bloom”(1 acoustic guitar track, with live looping)
- June 2005 - “Man’s Best Friend” filmscore tracks(several tracks, used together as the soundtrack for my friend Ben Pugh’s short film “Man’s Best Friend”, which was well-received at the 2005 Plymouth Independent Film Festival)
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- (4:11) Apr. 2004 - red wine / eyes of the world jam (2 acoustic guitar tracks)
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- (5:21) Nov. 1999 - extended acoustic jam (3 acoustic guitar tracks)
- (4:05) Nov. 2003 - acoustic duet idea (2 acoustic guitar tracks)
- (1:04) Nov. 2003 - “short n sweet” (2 acoustic guitars, trumpet*, whistling — first-ever recording w vocal mic)
- (3:48) Nov. 2003 - “chicken noodle soup” (2 electric guitar tracks, trumpet)
All “compositions” and instruments were me and are licensed under a Creative Commons license (some rights reserved). See link in footer for details.
I play a Guild acoustic-electric I bought in 1997; a 2005 Washburn Wi67Pro semi-hollow electric; an ancient yamaha trumpet from 5th grade, resurrected and restored in 2003; and (formerly, heard on these recordings) a Jay Turser JT134-DC my sweet wife bought me for my birthday in 2004.
