Here are some recordings from my birthday session and a recent session. Both feature Devon DeJohn on the guitar. The 8/16 session was sans Evan, who was busy with his anniversary.
2008-07-17 01
2008-07-17 02
2008-08-16 01 – Tequila!
2008-08-16 02
2008-08-16 03
All these tracks are good. Well, the last one is good in its own way… [...]
SNW had a session last Sunday, featuring Nolan McFadden on guitar. Here are some select tracks.
01 – A long, laid-back jam, featuring Nolan rapping Jabberwocky at the end (here is a clip of just the rap)
02 – energetic
03 – The Deal
04 – As Long as You Let Me Have Some
05 – The Stampin’ Gran’ [...]
The Anygma office had a MIDI keyboard lying around. Today I was hanging around at the office, and in my boredom I decided to look for the parts necessary to hook it up. A half hour later, I had a piano set up!
I haven’t played for two weeks, so this is a little [...]
Long before I started this blog, I decided to adapt the idea of a writer’s freewrites to music. The exact definition has mutated over the years, but nowadays I define a freewrite as a piece which I compose in one sitting, generally (but not rigidly) avoiding backtracking. That makes it a sort of [...]
Two weeks ago I completed my symphonic serenade, which I now dub opus 3. In previous posts I referred to the second movement as symphonic poem no. 1, and the third movement as symphonic poem no. 2. I wrote a third and crammed the three of them into a logical movement structure, where [...]
Last Monday, “The Moment” (def: Nolan and whoever else) had a jam session at my house. I got my whole rig out, indicating this was a special occasion (first jam in more than a month).
1 – Great funky track. It’s rough going now and then, but has some incredible passages, and is definitely [...]
Before we begin, a little shameless peddling: SNW was my band before it, er, disbanded. I consider that “improv that doesn’t suck”. If you think it sucks, then you probably won’t agree with my conclusion.
Two weeks ago I attended an open mic night at Cafe Babu, a fabulous musician-supporting cafe in Boulder. [...]
Here is the second in my series of symphonic poems. Still not happy with the ending, not because it’s not a good ending, but because it comes too soon. I want this piece to be about three minutes longer. I love it though, it is possibly my best work, so its length [...]
Over the past couple years, I have accumulated many thousands of dollars of musical equipment. I thought I would take some time to review the pros and cons of what I’ve purchased for future imitators :-). You can hear this gear in action in all the SNW recordings.
Main keyboard: Nord Stage 76
I [...]
I just finished, in some sense, the first of a series (hopefully) of symphonic poems. I took a long break in the middle of writing this, so I could be mistaken, but I think it took about 20 hours total. It still needs a little tweaking; in particular some of the harmonies on [...]
