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  DANCE OF THE MUSSELS

  11.18.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  (Video courtesy of Johan van de Koppel.)
  It’s a lousy dancer who steps on his partner’s foot, but groups of mussels use a similar foot game to form intricate patterns in a newly discovered underwater dance that benefits all involved.

  Scientists in the Netherlands have for the first time shown how individual mussels, acting seemingly independently, naturally […]

• Drafts, Experiments, Music, Pictures

  SNAKE FANG v3

  10.05.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  I’m about to let this sucker die.  Not really feeling it anymore.  If anyone hears some potential and wants the files, hit me up.  I can shoot you a Live 7 file with all the audio bits, etc.

  This is where I live:

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• Drafts, Music, Pictures

  SNAKEFANGv1

  09.23.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Here’s a work in progress:

• Archive, Music, Pictures

  LAZY INSTRUMENTAL

  08.12.08 | Permalink | Comment?

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  Space is the Place

  08.05.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Another one from the archives…

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• Experiments, Music, Pictures

  NIGHT 2

  07.29.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  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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  MIDLO 4

  07.22.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  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 […]

• Music, Pictures

  NIGHT 1

  07.01.08 | Permalink | Comment?

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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?

• Music, Pictures

  KAISER PERMANENTE

  06.18.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  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 […]

• Experiments, Music, Pictures

  Brain Machine Interface

  06.15.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  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!

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