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Another one from the archives…

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Here’s another one I made using sounds recorded on my friend’s farm, this one featuring drums by Sam Schauer of Modernstate and …worms.  Courtesy of Bridgetown Breaks Vol. 2.

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If I had to choose my favorite frequency range, I would have to go with the mid-lows.  I’m pretty sure that’s where the majority of supernatural events take shape.  I often get in trouble with the low-lows, which are  a fundamental force of nature, and cannot safely be used in a human creation.  High-lows are okay as well…but they might as well be low-mids, and as such are not such a great place for wizards from space to conjure new schemes.

Speaking of wizards, here’s a beat I made using sounds that my friend Mike recorded on his farm out in the Columbia Gorge, he’s got a bunch of cool music available for free download (and a rad coloring book for sale).

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One from the archives, originally posted on Bridgetown Breaks last summer:

“The Code”

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Just got back from the Oregon Coast and the annual celebration of the flying fire-snakes.  I made this song a while ago, but I think now it’s ready.  Drums by Kevin Robinson of Viva Voce, Blue Giant, and electric iLL, courtesy of Bridgetown Breaks Vol. 2.  Photo by Melinda Swenson.

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A soundtrack for crossing the river at midnight.  Features my kitchen sink on lead, Steven Kray on drums, and my friend’s neighbor, May, on violin.  Have you seen Grey Gardens?

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we might have done more

than invent a new way to push pixels

minds attached to glowing screens

trillions of neurons making sense of shimmering squares of color

spinning bits into personalities

real and imagined

my screen shows me the world I wish to see

and through it, I am as I pretend

100,000 million human beings have walked on Earth

9 out of every ten of them are dead

and though I cannot make a hand axe

or track a wounded deer

I have a device that always knows which song should come next

and soon

I will never need to leave

On Friday, at 4:59 PM (West Coast Time) Earth’s North Pole will be tilted as far toward the sun as it will be all year…so the days will only be getting shorter for the next six months.

The poppies and foxgloves are blooming however, and the Oregon Brewer’s Festival is just about a month away.  With any luck, we’ll soon be in the midst of another glorious Portland summer.

Here’s a song for the occasion, featuring drums by Josh Skins off of Bridgetown Breaks Vol. 1, tweaked and flavored with the awesome power of the Camel Crusher:

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I made this song for my Dad. It has some excerpts from an amazing talk from the TED conference by a neuro-scientist named Jill Bolte Taylor. All the other sounds are from 16 Sounds v1 and a drumline that I recorded with my cell-phone at the Cirque du Cycling.

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Happy Father’s Day!