Minutes

Reposted from August 3, 2024:

My musical practice felt so good from 2017-2020. I had Tuktu bleeding into the Guitar Cult, with big breaks in the summer to just play. I got real friendly with my beautiful acoustic Webber, and meeting John (Stropes) sent me into more confident playing than I'd previously experienced. I began to sit and improvise for long sessions. After an hour or so of wandering warmup, ideas came out fully formed. I imagined playing live and releasing something homespun, with the aesthetic of Leo's 6 & 12-string guitar and the Moosewood Cookbook guiding me. (I was enamored with the book ElectronMusic by Robert Devoe, which seems to be lost to the sands of internet time - I'm going to have to dig it out and share some images. The entire thing was handwritten on light brown paperstock.)

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Reposted from August 2, 2024:

This popped in my head - I hear Stereolab arrangements every once in a while and this is one, though I'm wrestling with getting the right sounds from Ableton. Flutes are standing in for vocals for now.

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Reposted from August 1, 2025:

I'm transferring all of my 4 track cassettes from 30 years ago. This is still 1995: I was inspired by marijuana and Yamasuka Eye to do something vocal with just the sound of my breath. Another 4 track thing from my archives.

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Reposted from July 31, 2025:

More 4 track things from 30 years ago. I recorded tons of collages like this, trusting that I'd be able to find something dreamlike in there.

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Reposted from July 30, 2025:

More 4 track things from 30 years ago. My brother started making short movies in high school, and this would eventually be the theme for More Guitar, the plot of which I'm still not sure I can summarize. I like how it sounds varispeed though - this would later get a mariachi feel after I enlisted friends to render the melody with trumpets and trombone.

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Reposted from July 29, 2025:

1995, four tracks on a cassette. Throwing all the exotica I had in the house at this tiny motif - melodica, varispeed guitaras, harmonics for percussion.

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Caudal Peduncle vibraslap fest - I'm hoping we have a contest where the first 5 people to count the correct number of vibraslaps wins big prizes.

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Litho week for Caudal Peduncle. Man I am lovin the guitar sounds we're getting - it's my Fender Musicmaster Bass AND my AC-30, plus Kurt's collection of SGs. This red one is what I played most of the time this week.

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Mike's dreams are dashed in the studio. What a blast recording Caudal Peduncle this week.

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Reposted from July 25, 2025:

"Better Taos". This is a ten-lined june beetle.

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