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The dough starts rough, and after a few rolls, falls over itself, as it slowly starts to congeal. This piece is a flakey pie crust, in the school of Rhys Chatham or Glenn Branca. Set in 3 time, its 14 tracks were blind-recorded with the through-line of “record the same thing each time”. Obviously some variations emerged from the performances, and some from improvisation, and willful neglect. The crust gains its life from imperfections.

An exercise in sparse, spacious composition, inspired by listening to the latest episode of the Norelco Mori podcast. Let the space breathe life into dead machines.

Another track that sounds like it could be the soundtrack of an underground Mario level.

Two-thirds through. Today a piece in the fun-a-day style of some friends in San Francisco that sounds like it could have come from a 90s three-piece with a dead member. ZZ Top Rage.

Lindsay got this Christmas nutcracker that we’ve named Fredrick. He’s still hanging out throughout the winter, so I thought I’d put together a theme song for him.

The sound of the void, somewhere in between planets.

I was aiming for something minimal and repetitive today, and I think I hit the mark. This sounds a bit like I’d imagine a film score for the scene when the character is stuck at a red light at 3 in the morning that takes 15 minutes to change.

Influenced equally by the quiet strumming in a slint song, and the heavy slowness of sleep. Made this on the correct day, but didn’t have internet to post it.

Today I gave myself an hour time limit (which I still overshot by 30 mins). The result is a two-part guitar song that I probably otherwise would have added an effects/atmosphere track to as well, but couldn’t swing it with the time constraint. It turned out to be a nice vehicle to experiment with the repetitive motifs in the higher register, and with chord voicing in the lower.

Today I felt compelled to revisit a chord progression that I’ve been playing with for a couple of years now. This recording is an experiment in accompaniment, though I’m not sure yet how successful I consider it. It’s an “everything but the kitchen sink” approach of sorts, with the main progression slowly introduced as a fade in over the first couple iterations. This definitely isn’t the final phase of this chord progression, but I do think it’s the first time I’ve released it anywhere.