Recent Projects

Song: The Caravan
Style: Meditative, plodding melange
Last Modified: February 23, 2006
Andrew and I collaborate in a way that takes seed ideas and blows them out in seemingly unexpected directions. This song contains didgerido, bazouki, part of a gong, and guitar. The effect is of some Saharan caravan plodding it's slow and steady way across the horizon in wavering sillhouette of the setting sun.

Song: Alice in Rubberland
Style: TripP-funk
Last Modified: February 2, 2006
I was showing Dank some of the marvels of GarageBand and iDrum when we stumbled upon a couple of beats in which the effects outstripped the playing of the kit itself. Thank you, Bitshift. Anyways, after spending a day or two immersed in P-Funk's "Mothership Connection", this song took on a slower tempo and new vibes.

Song: The Stakes for Our Country
Style: Dark, hooky political satire
Last Modified: December 17, 2006
Once we'd gotten Steve's home studio set-up, my creative juices were already flowing into ego-ville. I grabbed a hooky ACID piece that he was working on and splattered it with W quotes. Although it wasn't his original intention to include W quotes, I was on a tear. A few short minutes of surfing the 'net and I had amassed some ironic-sounding quotes, adding a dark, stark pallor to Steve's catchy soundbed. In addition to George taking the oath of office ("...so help me God."), listen for:

"The stakes for our country could not be higher."
"We must stay ahead of constantly changing intelligence challenges."

Yeah, no shit.

Song: PubliCity
Style: Rage against the Bush-chine
Last Modified: December 12, 2005
Steve and I were just getting his home studio set up. He was showing me a piece he'd started, and I was routing his multi-effects pedal into his computer. I started fiddling with his acoustic guitar, and he started playing the pedal like a synthesizer. It's not in its finished state, but a fun mix of live effects and loops.

Song: Home (How Would I Know?)
Style: Pop, drone and Paul Simon
Last Modified: April 7, 2005
I found a contest on MacJams.com which promised a keyboard and iPod Shuffle to the best composition made with a collection of GarageBand Tune-up Mini packs. I let Steve collaborate with me on it, and we wound up singing two different backing vocals to it. I sing, "I'm coming home..." and Steve sings, "How would I know?" That's the fun of collaboration, getting something that you wouldn't have come up with in a million years on your own. The end bit was influenced by Paul Simon's Here Comes Rhymin' Simon insofar as it was a small, catchy riff that immediately popped to mind as I was finishing off the tune. I had to ask myself, "What would Paul Simon do?"