prepared

john finkbeiner: prepared guitar
john hanes: prepared drums
recorded live in the green box (my tiny home studio) 05/04/09

macs'n'saxes

klaus filip and noid, the creators of lloopp, my sound mangling app of choice (free, open source, based on max-msp) were in town for the cycling'74 conference, and I helped get them a gig (4/20/09) at the luggage store gallery (thanks to rent romus for making it happen). they invited me to join them for a set and suggested i invite some non-laptop players to join us. i grabbed steve adams and philip greenlief. here's the result:

freedom music

john finkbeiner called me up last sunday and said, "would you like to come over to the studio tonight and play some freedom music?"
aaron bennett: sax and flute
aram shelton: bass clarinet ans sax
lisa mezzacappa: bass
john finkbeiner: guitar
john hanes: drums
recorded on my olympus ls-10 (warning: record level was a little high, there's some distortion)
freedom music part 2

part 3

part 4

part 5

assemblage

parts of various lloopp improvisations assembled in ableton live. I'm playing percussion, jen baker on trombone.

free improv mashup

the source material for this track is excerpts from a citta di vitti (see 10/19/08 post) live show (thanks to michael zelner for great live recording) and an improvised duet with john schott on guitar and me on lloopp. I dumped them into ableton and did a "slice to new midi track" and triggered that with midi game of life.
behind the big top

myles boisen's past, present, future

past, present, future is myles on guitar, seth ford-young on bass and me. darren johnston joins us on trumpet on "new oakland two-step." recorded live at studio 6 @ the music union hall, san francisco, 11/30/08. all songs © myles boisen. photo by me.

devil blues

new oakland two-step

monkish

goodbye day/minor memory

the commuter

synthpond idm

synthpond idm from organofqwerty on Vimeo.
this one starts with solo synthpond for 8 bars, and then ableton drums and effects (filters, delays, beat repeat) kick in. cosmovox enters somewhere in the middle.