Minutes

Minutes

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  • August 23, 2026

    Reposted from August 23, 2025:

    Thursday eve, just as vacation is about to begin. This giant hive sits to the north of our driveway, a safe distance for viewing.

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    2 min
  • August 21, 2026

    Reposted from August 21, 2025:

    I get so grounded playing Michael Hedges' music. Working through a little bit of Bensusan, accompanied by last night's owls and coyotes.

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    2 min
  • August 20, 2026

    Reposted from August 20, 2025:

    Tape 15 again - 1995 4 tracking again. Really working to get an interesting sound out of the touch-wah preset on this ART multieffect unit I had.

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    2 min
  • August 19, 2026

    Reposted from August 19, 2025:

    Tape 15 again - 1995 4 tracking. I loved the artificial harmonic in the evil repeating figure.

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    1 min
  • August 18, 2026

    Reposted from August 18, 2025:

    A bunch of textures on this tape - Tape 15. I started this audio journal approach with the 4 track, where I'd just number and date tapes, and let the sounds flow.

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    2 min
  • August 17, 2026

    Reposted from August 17, 2025:

    1. A lot of pieces like this where I abused varispeed to get to a tempo I couldn't quite reach. It's fun to pull these out, align them on a grid in Ableton, and lay the drums I remember WISHING I had the ability to program and line up on tape.
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      2 min
    3. August 16, 2026

      Reposted from August 16, 2025:

      1995 4 tracking again, and again I have no recollection of where/why for this one. My friend Craig perma-loaned me a full size keyboard with a bunch of preset sounds and rhythm patterns, and occasionally I hear it's drum machine creep in.

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      2 min
    4. August 15, 2026

      Reposted from August 15, 2025:

      1995 4 tracking with a little help from Ableton. I have no recollection of where/why for this one, but I have this sanitized memory of my 20s sounding like this: endless afternoons of noodly overdubbing guitars, working my way intuitively towards something that works. And I had to have harmonics in everything.

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      2 min
    5. August 14, 2026

      Reposted from August 14, 2025:

      More 4 tracking - this is from 1995. My first little movie soundtrack for my brother's short "The Loner". Wow isn't that the sound of loneliness?! I had a Dearmond phase pedal that let you control the speed of the phase with a rocker, like you see on a volume or wah wah - that's the backwards sound you here.

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      3 min

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    Daily sounds from composer/guitarist Ben McAllister: a sketch, a demo, a field recording, something I heard that day, a thought and a picture. More at