electro-acoustic

Progressive Bliss was finished in 1993 but remixed with modern tools recently.  I originally used an Atari computer, a Kawai K1II, and an Ensonic Mirrage to create accompaniment for several instrumental solos recorded on a Tascam 388 1/4 inch reel to reel.  I played keyboard and directed guitarists:  Tony  Harlin (metalic),  Te Cool (psychedelic), and Lance Hogan (classical, jazz fusion)

 

 
 

Maiden Voyage / So What - Space Shuttle Discovery
I arranged this combination of two modal jazz classics: Maiden Voyage by Herbie Hancock, and So What by Miles Davis, re-harmonized with V+#11 chords, whole tone scales and tritone lines. So What is in half time for the middle section, the melody played by the horns. Both tunes combine when Maiden Voyage returns with the So What melody in the bass using a tritone pitch change effect. The fabulous sax solo is played by Seth Kuhn.

 
 

Reflexions is a duet with me on piano and Tim Ussery playing guitar.  It was remixed from a long free form improvisation with a real-time electronic canon at the 5th with pitch shifting and delay.  Also on the same album is Trion which used the same canon effect, but at a diminished 5th, and Dominus which goes back to the perfect 5th pitch cannon for a recap and conclusion.

  
 

Suspended Animation was written in 1992 as a composition assignment using the octatonic scale.  I also used a delay canon for the flute sound.

 

Water Lily and Constance are on Padded Cells, a collaboration with Mike Upright finished in 1997 based on a series of improvisations I re-arranged on the computer.   

Water Lilly is  arranged with samples of John Lily, whales, and dolphins.

Constance adds a bass part done with Csound pitch detection and FM synthesis processing of my voice.

 

  

    
 

Gammaman is a manufactured member of society, named for an embryo in Brave New World by Aldous Huxley; at least he's not a Delta
Gammaman is a collaboration with Aimee Norwich on the album Space Fabric.  We used an EMS Synthi. an EMU emulator  and a TEAC reel to reel 4 track.  The voice sample is taken from Dragnet "The Prophet" 1968

  
 

 

John Lennon Crosses the River Styx was named by a fellow classmate for this composition assignment in music electronics coarse.  I used an Emulator III to trigger samples of a friend playing Bach''s Cello Suite in D, but with a tritone cannon effect using pitch bend and delay on a distorted electric guitar.  I re-arranged the order of the guitar recording and added timpani and a flange strings pad from a Yamaha TG-55

 

Solaris is composed with step sequences I wrote on a Yamaha PLG-AN150 transposed by the host keyboard (S80) being split:  some keys  choosing which step sequence is  played others transposing it.  I improvised with the step sequences, added light percussion and then played solos

 

Mars is a collaboration with Mike Upright written and conceived on a Tascam Porta-one 4 track cassette recorder.

 

Justajob began by recording myself tweaking a vocoder plugin in soundforge; toggling carier pitches with the mouse on a virtual  keyboard to effect a looping Elvis sample from Flaming Star "this is just a job to keep me going 'til the rodeo season starts", I then acidized the entire recording and added it to Fruityloops drum patterns to which I played the bass and vibraphone on the S80 with the harmony of the vocoded Elvis loop.

 

The Trio of Death is the result of some improvisation with the Yamaha Vocal Effects plug-in board on my S80 controlling the pitches of the vocal harmonizer effect with the keyboard over samples looped with Acid. I sang the trio of death, and Te Cool did the Elvis intro and impersonation.

 

 

Orbital Debris is an Eric Von John Paul Project album finished in 2002, I played Keyboard, and synthesizer, Eric Toomsen - Violin, Steven Paul - bass, guitar, keyboard, samples.  I added synth (including an Arp Odyssey) to an improvisation with Eric and Steve in Monsoniland; here are excerpts.

Jam! is Made with ACID Pro using samples of entries for an RRR forum Re-Volt soundtrack contest.

Re-cycled Adrenochrome is electronic trance music to accompany racing in Re-Volt , an RC car  video game by Acclaim.

Circuitous Sojourn is electronic trance music to accompany racing in Re-Volt, an RC car video game by Acclaim.  It is to be repeatedly played as it was made as a seamless loop.

Hypnotrancitron used Propeller Heads Re-birth in an experimentation with simultaneous looped phrases of different lengths

Re-Volt Revolution is electronic trance music to accompany new tracks in Re-Volt, an RC car video game by Acclaim.  I used FruityLoops Studio to compose the music.  The female vocal was done by a young student, Muara Forsyth.  I sang as well.