posted 4/6/08
Time Away From Wasting Time ( 7:53 )
A tenser, darker song than my recent ones, it stays minor for a while, then gets happy. It's driven by the standard instrumentation, although with much less orchestration and different drums sounds.
posted 3/18/08
Never Been One To Come Undone ( 8:06 )
A lengthy and dense song with the standard mix of guitar, bass, drums and orchestral instruments, with a slightly noisier ending than normal.
posted 1/16/08
Last Words At First Light ( 7:50 )
A mix of electronic percussion and standard drums combined with guitar and some orchestration. The last couple minutes are particularly appealing.
posted 12/14/07
Somewhere Close To The Heavenly Host ( 9:02 )
A much heavier song than my normal work, this is a dense metal song driven by folksy melodies and some occasional clean guitar to let the listener breathe.
posted 11/16/07
As Long As Night Devours The Day ( 12:40 )
A long, dense and highly melodic track that goes through many different movements to say what it wants to say. It's got guitar, bass, drums and a lot of sampled instruments, and sounds quite nice overall.
posted 10/29/07
Sins For Those Who Don't Believe ( 8:01 )
A happy song driven by lots of electric guitar (tuned to open D, which is a first) and drums. It's largely an experiment to figure out my new equipment, but it's quite nice all the same.
posted 7/29/07
Braver Men Would Call It Courage ( 7:10 )
A dense, changing and happy song driven by the standard mix of instruments plus some curious "world music" wind instruments. Quite a pleasant song, and definitely worth a listen.
posted 6/19/07
A Future Of Forgetting The Present ( 2:05 )
A short, happy song that's driven by various "world music" instruments. It's got many layers of percussion and lush pads, strings and other things, and it's quite relaxing.
posted 5/20/07
Spoken Like The Soundless Night ( 11:05 )
A sprawling, epic song that goes through many movements, some tense, some happy, and in general is an interesting, dynamic and enjoyable track driven by standard rock instrumentation with some orchestral things making occasional appearances.
posted 4/14/07
One More Word To Curse The World ( 3:47 )
A poppier song guided by drums loops and the standard mix of guitars, bass and assorted samples. Short, pleasant and melodically dense, it's a fairly good track.
posted 3/15/07
A Sudden Loss In A Summer Month ( 4:51 )
A pleasant song driven by lots of various percussion, with guitar, bass and piano thrown on top for melody. Quite pleasant, and mildly different from my normal work.
posted 3/7/07
A Timely End To All Things ( 6:39 )
A retreat from the harsh loudness of metal and a return to a more mellow and calming style. It's a pleasant, relaxing and generally happy song of standard guitar / bass / drums with some additional orchestral sounds. Enjoy.
posted 2/27/07
Every Other Word Meant Everything ( 7:35 )
A louder, longer, and much more metal song than the previous few. It rocks quite a bit, if you're into this sort of thing.
posted 1/21/07
Sore Eyes Lost Their Sight ( 3:34 )
Another piano-centric song, this short work is driven by echoey piano chords, lots of layered percussion and some various guitar, clarinet and violin melodies. It's pretty, in a mellow and ambient sort of way.
posted 1/16/07
Shelter From A Shallow World ( 2:32 )
A shorter, very mellow song to follow the last one. It's guided by layers of world percussion, various piano parts, some clarinet and an erhu. It's a fun and relaxing song.
posted 1/13/07
Names For Things We've Never Seen ( 9:24 )
A longer song guided on its way by simple drum loops and lots of layered guitar and samples. It shifts through many moods and movements, and is well worth listening to.
posted 12/26/06
For The Sake Of Saving Grace ( 4:32 )
A very mellow song marked by a relatively low amount of guitar and a great amount of sampled instruments. Driven by a stereo-echoed piano and a good bit of orchestral instruments, it's quite nice to listen to.
posted 12/10/06
An Anthem Sung In Defeat ( 2:15 )
The polar opposite of the meditative, longer song found below, this is a short piece of ear candy with strange accent placement, lots of twiddly guitar parts and some world percussion. Fun and short.
posted 12/8/06
Under A Sky The Color Of Day ( 12:16 )
A return to a more lengthy sort of song, this piece is happy, varied, energetic and obsessively textured, driven by guitar, drums, piano, brass and bass. Quite good, if you have the time to sit through it.
posted 11/13/06
A very dense and very happy song produced by me having fun with slightly more complex guitar work and lots more horn parts. Not a bad track at all.
posted 11/12/06
A Beautiful Way To Fade Away ( 3:23 )
A dense and mellow song that is driven by a processed acoustic guitar riff, world percussion, horn sections, acoustic and electric guitar, piano, bass and some drums. It's quite nice to listen to.
posted 10/24/06
Born Before The World Awoke ( 3:03 )
A very mellow and organic song, this is a shorter piece experimenting with some newly-found samples, which include better drum sounds, clarinets, tubas, french horns and other such things. A nice song, I'd say.
posted 10/8/06
Foreign Statues On Native Soil ( 6:18 )
A hopeful and mellow song guided by lots of electric guitar parts, slightly complex bass parts and some drums. It's quite pleasant to listen to, and might merit a download.
posted 9/4/06
Every Day An Unbroken Dawn ( 4:10 )
A lush, layered piece driven by acoustic guitar, drum loops and many supplemental melodic things courtesy of electric guitars. Mellow and happy, it's quite a pleasant song.
posted 8/27/06
No New Stars In This Night ( 2:07 )
A short, largely drumless track centered around some fingerpicked acoustic guitar and various other mellow melodic supplements. Brief but beautiful.
posted 8/19/06
Simple Words For An Empty Soul ( 7:15 )
Another metal song to closely follow the previous one. The production's slightly different, the melodies more numerous and the ambience less spacious than my normal metal songs. It rocks quite a bit, and is well worth listening to.
posted 7/21/06
Open Window To A Broken Sunset ( 8:03 )
A much happier song than the previous one, full of lush guitar melodies and happiness. It's difficult to hear everything going on at times, but for the most part it's well worth listening to.
posted 6/4/06
Only What Our Hands Can Kill ( 8:28 )
A much more metal song than my recent output, it's got about fifteen distinct sections with multiple melodies for most of them, and it generally rocks out a good amount.
posted 5/2/06
With The Steady Aim Of A Corpse ( 3:23 )
A song driven mainly by some synthetic drums, acoustic guitar and vinyl noise, with a speech by Yuri Levitan and some electric guitar and piano thrown in just for the hell of it. A very mellow and relaxing track.
posted 4/30/06
Almost Everything In The World ( 5:10 )
Strangely enough, another good song that I'm pleased with. Less electronic than the previous song, more dense and a little more somber, yet still mostly driven by drums, guitar, piano and bass. Certainly worth a listen or two.
posted 4/20/06
Country Ashes In A City Urn ( 5:06 )
Another song I'm actually happy with. A tenser minor key piece, it's driven by some drum loops and piano and layered with a goodly amount of guitar, and should hopefully bring you some happiness.
posted 4/10/06
One second longer than the previous song, and quite a bit different. It's driven by simple drum loops, layered electric and acoustic guitar and some piano and odd percussion for variety. One of the better things I've written in a while.
posted 3/16/06
The Suspicious Death Of Trust ( 6:46 )
A more metal song, after quite a long time between the last one. The production is better, if still a little sketchy, but regardless of imperfect recording values it still rocks something fierce. Well worth checking out.
posted 3/11/06
Orphan Sons Of The Restless Revolt ( 8:57 )
A longer song with a surprising degree of coherency and purpose to it that is mainly marked by a complete lack of restraint in layering and texturing. It's quite good.
posted 2/19/06
Homecoming For A Dead Hero ( 3:44 )
A very happy and poppy song driven by electronic drums and acoustic guitar with lots of twiddly bits here and there. A good song for a smile.
posted 2/14/06
My Lovely Valentine ( 1:43 )
Perhaps my favorite non-serious song I've ever written. It's a short "cover" of fragments of a valentine's day song using robot voices and synthesizers. Surprisingly good actually.
posted 2/6/06
The Apocalypse Never Happened ( 5:48 )
Another random piece of electronica I've had sitting around on my hard drive for a while and forgot to post. It's super happy and poppy.
posted 2/5/06
Final Thoughts For The Fading Light ( 9:16 )
A nice, longer song that is primarily mellow and major, with stabs of minor-key tension and louder parts for good measure. I find it enjoyable.
posted 12/24/05
Drag The Ocean To Your Open Door ( 6:19 )
A pleasant song with some interesting drumming, guitar work and song structure to it, as well as a really warm and full end section. Pleasing enough for a listen or two.
posted 12/14/05
Tovarishi II (A Call To Arms) ( 4:25 )
The second part of the Lenin experiment, which is more slightly more complex in structure and a little bit darker at points. While it'd be an instant b-side if I released albums, it's still pretty good.
posted 12/12/05
Tovarishi I (A Definition of Power) ( 2:07 )
The first part of the Lenin experiment, using some new, better-sounding drum samples and the usual reverby guitar. Quite a relaxing and simple track.
posted 12/11/05
Alive Enough To Die Deprived ( 6:53 )
A nice song rhythmically driven by a simple electronic drum loop, with kit drums thrown over that at points, and melodically driven by lots of guitar as well as assorted synths and samples. I'm happy with it.
posted 11/19/05
A Day In The Life Of The Moonless Night ( 10:49 )
Yet a third consecutive mellow piece, this one being driven mainly by acoustic guitar and drums, with many secondary electric and sampled melodies, and also incorporating more space and openness than my previous tracks, which is mainly due to a recording of cars driving by on a rainy day. A pretty good song overall.
posted 11/10/05
Half-Closed Eyes Of A Half-Dead Man ( 8:42 )
Another mellow piece striving to incorporate more sounds than just bass-heavy clean guitar, throwing in bits of electronica for percussion, clean and snarly guitar with varying amounts of distortion, piano and more acoustic guitar than most of my recent pieces. It's certainly worth a listen.
posted 10/24/05
Shaking Hands To Hold You Down ( 5:51 )
A mellow, mid-tempo piece driven by layered smooth and biting electric parts with some percussion and samples to flesh things out. It won't change the world, but it's not too bad overall.
posted 10/8/05
Waving Songs And Singing Signs ( 3:10 )
A shorter, mellow experiment consisting of simple percussion, guitar, piano and a cool sax sample. Relaxing and direct, it's a pretty good song.
posted 10/3/05
Damnation / Damned Nation ( 14:02 )
A lengthier but thoroughly engaging song exploring my newfound love of density in layering as well as a desire to make earbleed-worthy parts. It's a dark and downbeat song driven by guitar and some electronica for the most part, with a few more unrestrained moments as well. Not a bad track, I'd say.
posted 9/16/05
A shorter and quicker song that serves as both an expression of happiness and an experiment in more complex music. It's driven by energetic drums, a chordal baseline and lots of quick and possibly complex riffs. For those with a shorter attention span, this should work well.
posted 8/26/05
Seven Words To Save A Wasted Life ( 6:06 )
A happier, poppier song driven by mellow percussion and a sometimes staggeringly dense amount of major-key melodic guitar layers. A fairly nice track, all things considered.
posted 7/31/05
Rotten Stars In A Falling Sky ( 4:59 )
A more mellow track to offset the recent metal song. It's made of lots of spacey guitar parts and distorted, fuzzy drums, cycles through about five major parts and in general sounds pretty nice.
posted 7/20/05
A heavier metal track that rocks a fair bit. The production is characteristically imperfect, but the numerous different parts, interesting melodies and generally rocking edge to the song hopefully make up for that.
posted 6/16/05
Catching Bullets With Open Arms ( 6:40 )
Another dark and moody song driven by two nice acoustic riffs and some drums that come in later. It's fairly dense as well, with lots of various melodies and layers going on, especially towards the end. Pretty nice overall.
posted 6/13/05
Anything But The Loss Of Everything ( 6:30 )
An interesting instrumental rock song driven by less-then-simple guitar work and interesting percussion. Pretty cool actually.
posted 6/3/05
Lift Our Souls From The Lonely Grave ( 8:37 )
A skeleton of big, loud, electronic percussion, blood of lots of lightly soiled guitar and skin of pleasing rhythms and mood shifts make for a musical sort of anthropomorphic metaphor that is pleasing to listen to.
posted 4/26/05
Happy Birthday Morgan ( 4:20 )
A techno / rock cover of the traditional song done for my sister's 18th birthday. Fun to make, fun to listen to.
posted 4/21/05
A Tragedy Lost In The Final Lines ( 4:56 )
A lush and relaxing major-key piece held together by a heavily processed floor tom and lots of mellow guitar riffs. Nothing special, but nice.
posted 4/15/05
Mourning The Days The Morning Never Came ( 13:18 )
A guitar and drum driven longer piece that cycles through many moods, some slow and sad, some happy and chaotic. It's well worth the time it takes to listen, as it changes up frequently and logically enough to not seem extremely long.
posted 2/21/05
Bloody Snow And A Broken Heart ( 5:11 )
A cool mellow track to offset the last one, with sampled piano, drums, cello and upright bass among other things. I'm fairly pleased with it.
posted 2/13/05
Stolen Words From A Silent Song ( 7:58 )
A decent song, with some nice ambient and variably echoey guitar supported by steady and at times energetic drums with bits of piano and slide guitar thrown in for good measure. Incidentally, its end is one of my favorite conclusions.
posted 2/8/05
The Dead Art Of Dying Alone ( 5:32 )
A nice, mellow and organic song driven by an echoey percussive sound. It's got lots of delayed and reverbed guitar, an assortment of other pleasant noise and a little rise in emotion at the end. Not a bad track at all.
posted 1/12/05
(Oud) ( 5:05 )
Another piece played on the instrument that I'm slowly falling in love with as I actually learn how to play it. It's wandering, ambient and relaxing, consisting of an oud, a drone synth pad and some reverbed-out cymbals.
posted 1/8/05
A Landing Strip In Haiti (Part II) ( 3:28 )
Part II of the experiment. It's the sermon run through a vocoder with a fuzzy pad as the carrier, some sampled brush drums and a little bit of improved piano. Pretty haunting actually.
posted 1/6/05
A Landing Strip In Haiti (Part I) ( 3:39 )
A somber guitar centric track that is part one of an experiment revolving around a sermon by Tony Campolo, who even a non-religious person like myself has to appreciate.
posted 12/21/04
Ten Years, Twenty Deaths ( 7:07 )
A nice and heavy metal track with some extremely rocking riffs in it. The production's a bit sketchy, but other than that it's just fine.
posted 12/21/04
The Song Is The Sacrifice ( 5:10 )
A mellow yet fairly purposeful acoustic song that I enjoy. It also contiains a small amount of slide guitar, which I am trying to not suck at.
posted 12/21/04
The Part About Falling Apart ( 4:25 )
A mellow djembe driven piece exploring a more simple composition focused less upon layering and more upon longer riffs. The production on the acoustic guitar is a little annoying to me, but the track is fairly good overall.
posted 11/1/04
A Ballet At The Edge Of The Abyss ( 9:40 )
A bit of a clumsy title, but a pretty good song. Nice and relaxing, and a little reminiscent of Until The Soldiers Are Servants.
posted 11/1/04
Death March To A Slow Waltz ( 4:10 )
A new version of the like-titled song, marked mainly by lots of shifting electric riffs and a march-like snare drum backing.
posted 9/8/04
Blackened Lungs Burned For You ( 6:58 )
An interesting drum loop backed song that I quite like. Fairly dark and brooding, but with pockets of sunshine here and there.
posted 7/26/04
Death March To A Slow Waltz ( 4:05 )
A happier song that loosely hints at my new age proclivities. It's got lots of riffs flitting back and forth, and a general major key happiness to it with the underlying track being the sound caused by hitting my guitar with distortion on.
posted 6/23/04
Until The Soldiers Are The Servants ( 10:26 )
Another long song around ten minutes (a length I seem to favor), it's very relaxed and lush with a really nice tone on the guitar throughout. It's quite good, and fairly dynamic, making more use of variable reduction and addition of layers instead of a constant buildup, which is nice.
posted 5/10/04
Oud! ( 1:29 )
Another short experiment with my oud, keyboard and djembe. It's nice, but a little roughly produced.
posted 5/9/04
Fall Of The Vaudeville Villains ( 5:37 )
Boy, I tell you what. This is a fun song. Really catchy and dancey as well as very circus-like. A lighthearted romp through the land of odd pop.
posted 5/9/04
Oud? ( 2:13 )
A rough recording of a short song I wrote using my newly purchased oud and somewhat newly purhcased djembe. Lots of fun.
posted 5/2/04
Ancient Words And Aging Rhymes ( 7:04 )
A cool rocking track that varies between major key almost power metal to minor key goodness. One of my favorite tracks, and definitely one of my most fun.
posted 4/23/04
My attempt at a more classical styled piece, which met with moderate success. Pleasing guitar and cello work (courtesty of Morgan Webb-Yeates) support a "field recording" of a short walk.
posted 4/14/04
Built A Home For These Broken Bones ( 4:40 )
Another metal-esque song, inspired by listening to Shadows Fall's "The First Noble Truth" about 100 times in a row.
posted 3/27/04
Julien's Master ( 2:37 )
A reference to Tartuffe, who Julien Sorrel of Le Rouge et le Noir referred to as his master, made because of the background narration, completely distorted as it may be. It's surprisingly calming, if a bit strange.
posted 3/25/04
The Mountains, How They Trembled! ( 9:29 )
Drum loops, interesting tremolo drenched chords and weird noise galore. I like it.
posted 2/29/04
Blinding Holes In The Firmament ( 9:10 )
Even more mellow than the last one, it's a fairly beautiful song featuring Samantha May on violin.
posted 2/15/04
Rusted Gears Of This Broken Machine ( 10:23 )
A very pleasant and mellow song that features Morgan Webb-Yeates on cello.
posted 2/14/04
Green Greens ( 3:00 )
Yeah, that song. From Kirby. Good clean fun. My friend Cory Kates plays the keyboard intro.
posted 1/25/04
Scaffolds Around This Dying Beauty ( 5:23 )
A hyper mellow major-key song that I definitely like. Inspired by an oud, as all things are I'm sure.
posted 1/15/04
A Spectacle Of The Failed And Fading ( 5:43 )
An organ part, some human sounding drum work, and shifting acoustic / clean electric bits capped off with a dirtier part at the end. It's quite a mellow, calm piece.
posted 1/5/04
Candles Catch These Calmer Moments ( 6:46 )
More interesting echoey drum loops, some mellow acoustic work and a little bit of pseudo-metal.
posted 1/1/04
Interesting drum loops, ambient guitar and a little bit of rocking out.
posted 12/18/03
Artful Ways To Take A Life ( 4:21 )
A curious little song that is happy and light at the beginning, and very tense and dense towards the end.
posted 12/13/03
Light From The Fires Of Hope ( 10:33 )
A nice long song that spends it's first two thirds or so in contemplative mellow acoustic land, and then jumps abruptly elsewhere. Enjoy.
posted 12/6/03
All The Secrecy Of Celebration ( 3:38 )
A pleasant little song that has some curious analog synth bits in it.
posted 11/25/03
Wars We Fought With Plowshares ( 3:05 )
It's a shorter song that is quiet and builds to a nice release at the end.
posted 11/18/03
Dead Birds Like Dead Men ( 5:29 )
It's melodic metal. Double kick drum, dual lead guitars, and a hell of a lot of rocking out. Enjoy.
posted 11/8/03
FC Bayern Stern Des Sudens ( 6:09 )
A cover of the like-titled song by Willy Astor. The original is great and catchy, and also has lyrics. Mine does not. Instead, it's a techno-esque bit that's quite good.
posted 10/16/03
I'm really quite happy with this track. In my opinion it is one of the best things I have ever composed, so hopefully you'll enjoy it. If you don't like slow stuff, it has a really rocking ending, incidentally.
posted 9/29/03
French Medley ( 9:05 )
A compilation of the various homework I've recorded for my French phonetics class. Certainly amusing.
posted 9/27/03
The Fallen Sons Of Anger And Courage ( 5:08 )
Another track that turned out most delightfully. Stripped down instrumentation, a minor key, and lots of ebb and flow of tension. Enjoy.
posted 9/21/03
I'm certainly pleased with this track. It's got a fair amount of purpose and direction, varied instrumentation (or at least sounds suggestive of varying instrumentation), and it features Ariel Klein playing the flute. Amusez-vous bien mes copains.
posted 8/19/03
The very definition of a chill-out track. A very quickly built song that came out sounding lovely. Enjoy.
posted 8/18/03
Longer and quite nice. Lots of tension and fun, with a climactic ending. Amusez-vous bien.
posted 8/4/03
The Fading Days Of This Golden Age ( 5:18 )
A keen song. Techno, guitar, piano and trumpet that sound most pleasing. My sister Morgan is responsible for the trumpet playing.
posted 8/3/03
An Argument For The Sake Of Anger ( 3:57 )
A very pleasing song weaving guitar, piano, bass, keys and some orchestration. One of my favorites.
posted 7/13/03
Monuments To Our Incomplete Conquest ( 15:04 )
Yeah, it's really long, but it's very dynamic and engaging. Enjoy.
posted 6/25/03
A catchy little song with a very uptempo underlying riff with oh so many hammer-ons and pull-offs. It's nice.
posted 6/22/03
A very cool song with a hyper distorted drum loop backing it all, and some interesting minor guitar work underneath. All who have listened have liked, so maybe you shall as well.
posted 6/22/03
An interesting song that has an ending which contains about as much joy as a truffle, which is a lot. It's uptempo acoustic with a pseudo-chord backed ending, if you care.
posted 6/12/03
A diminutive song that is nice and ever so full, brimming with contentment at the possibility of pleasing you. Please let the song be happy and amuse and comfort you.
posted 6/11/03
A downtempo techno-like drum track, some airy piano and wee bits of other noise make this track sound like something vaguely nice. Have fun listening to this latest effort.
posted 6/8/03
A percussion driven track that has a fair quantity of energy to it. Enjoy.
posted 6/3/03
Standing Atop The Ashes Of The Muses ( 9:53 )
A long experiment that turned out quite nicely. It starts quiet then builds, then settles down again. I'm certainly satisfied with it, and perhaps even contented. I hope you enjoy.
posted 5/27/03
Short and driving, a wee bit muddy, and simultaneously soothing. It's nothing wonderful, but it's certainly nice.
posted 5/25/03
A Grave For Your Dearest Truths ( 4:05 )
It's a good, relaxing track, composed of guitar and piano. I like it for now, but that will of course change in the next couple of days, as I am prone to do. Anyway, enjoy if you download this.
posted 5/20/03
My new favorite track. It's a repeating guitar line with improvised guitar over that, some piano chords, some improvised piano, and a cool snare-only drum backing that I made using a keyboard. I dearly hope you enjoy.
posted 5/18/03
My Tears Fall As You Slowly Rise ( 6:30 )
It's long, it's minor and has a lot of nice layers. Not as driving as other songs, but it's very mellow and wonderfully relaxing and engaging. So says the biased creator at least. Anyway, enjoy to the fullest possible extent.
posted 5/4/03
Gentle Hope, Why Do You Now Leave? ( 3:59 )
A song with a good amount of drive and purpose, written without a techno drum track. It's pretty dynamic, and changes pleasingly throughout. Perhaps you'll enjoy.
posted 5/3/03
The same song as below, but with the drum track not removed, and thus included. I really like both versions, so I couldn't just post one. Enjoy.
posted 5/3/03
These Burning Ghosts Of Dispassion ( 3:25 )
A keen song that tries to be dynamic and forceful, and perhaps succeeds. It was written off a 140bpm drum loop, which was then eliminated from the mixdown, for those who care. I like it, and find it charmingly pretty.
posted 4/27/03
A charming song, with a great deal of seperate parts flitting in and out of an audible state. I find it to be quite nice, one of my current favorites actually. It's a little slow moving, but then again all my work could have that criticism leveled against it. I dedicate this track to darkness, to water and to willow trees.
posted 4/26/03
It's a pretty song, and a further shedding of sentiment in a way that is remarkably emo-like. Anyway, it's a relatively intricate song, swimming with layers, and with the novel addition of a short spoken segment at the end. Welcome to the age of talkies. I hope my theatre training will withstand this new trend.
posted 4/18/03
A nice shorter song that would make a pleasant opening track or intermediary track. It's assez lovely, and almost painfully melodic, and is inspired by the incredible Swedish metal band In Flames. Have fun listening.
posted 4/13/03
Youth And All Its Tender Denials ( 4:04 )
A nice and again, dynamic song that could benefit so much from proper recording conditions to make the open strings less bass intensive. Otherwise though, it's a keen track.
posted 4/8/03
If Only Our Truths Could Be So Pure ( 4:41 )
A somewhat complex, very dynamic and interesting song that pleases me greatly, mostly because of the ever so happy hammers and pull offs acting as a sort of melodic supplement. Enjoy.
posted 3/29/03
The Remnants Of Our Joyous Feast ( 4:21 )
An interesting track with a very large number of guitar parts going on, that surprisingly don't become horridly dissonant. The guitar at the end sounds like it's being played through a phone, which I like.
posted 3/23/03
A River Not Of Tears But Of Sand ( 3:16 )
I bought my slide, and I played around with it till I figured out how to use it, then wrote this track. May your ears amuse themselves.
posted 3/23/03
Imperfect Uses Of Our Favorite Words ( 4:34 )
I adore this track. Were it animate, I would become its devoted husband, caring for it forever. It's slower, building, and beautiful.
posted 3/18/03
A drum backed, fast moving track with some fun texturing from pick slides and feedback. Hopefully you'll enjoy it, as I certainly do.
posted 3/14/03
I Intend To Believe Your Lies ( 4:25 )
A faster, energetic track that builds and weaves melody quite nicely, with a petit cadeau at the end that at least reminds me of a certain Japanese motorcycle gang.
posted 3/7/03
Dimmed And Worn, Yet A Halo Still ( 3:29 )
A more driving song, but with a pleasant amount of beauty fluttering about it as well. Listen and be content.
posted 3/5/03
Shivering Memories Clad In Rags ( 2:45 )
The underlying intervals are swell, and the whole track has a nice flow to it.
posted 3/5/03
A song I find so happy that I wonder from where I could have derived such contentment.
posted 3/4/03
Beautiful Circles Beneath Your Eyes ( 3:52 )
A slow, lovely and enchanting song. Lots of textures that struggle to make themselves heard, to a good effect. I enjoy this track greatly.
posted 2/23/03
Tiny Corpses Of Hope Stacked High ( 2:39 )
A nice happy song, which slowly builds upon itself to create a nice texture of sound at the end.
posted 2/21/03
A slightly different mix, with the underlying guitar having a veneer of distortion, and with a very energetic percussive backing courtesty of Peter Collopy.
posted 2/19/03
A pleasing, dynamic song with a good deal of variation and melody, and one closed by an improvised series of notes.
posted 2/15/03
The same track listed on this page, but featuring Peter Collopy adding some plaintive percussive color to the piece.
posted 2/13/03
Sing Me Your Tired Little Songs ( 4:33 )
A slow, reflective song, and beautiful to me at least. It contains a fun shift in tempo halfway through, as well, launching into a different theme. Perhaps my favorite song.
posted 2/13/03
Twisting Spires Of Joy ( 3:13 )
Another slow song, albeit one of joy and contentment, as suggested by the title.
posted 2/12/03
Grace Like A Thousand Swords ( 2:50 )
An experimental track, consisting of a simple melody over which Le Corbusier gives a speech in French on architecture and urban planning.
posted 2/11/03
Pirouettes And Failures ( 2:22 )
A lightly distorted track that has a swell of energy and purpose behind it.
posted 2/7/03
Small Parades For Lost Causes ( 2:33 )
A metallic song exploring the fun of picking between the nut and the tuning peg.
posted 2/6/03
Wounded, Worried And Elated ( 2:31 )
A fragile, hollow and to a degree beautiful song with a lovely last 40 seconds.
posted 1/30/03
Song For A Confused World ( 2:18 )
A shorter, fast-moving song, very simple but appealing all the same.
posted 1/22/03
Introduction To A Broken Symphony ( 3:33 )
A slower, haunting song that ever so slowly builds. One of my favored songs.
posted 1/20/03
Words Always Seem To Crumble ( 2:36 )
The second version of a song I'm trying to make into something wonderful. The main melody is suitably catchy, but it still lacks something.
posted 1/19/03
Stumbling On Shards Of Chords ( 1:42 )
The first song I ever wrote. It's painfully simple and relatively calming.
posted 1/17/03
Like Photographs Long Faded ( 1:41 )
A short, energetic song which culminates in a flurry of distortion.
posted 1/17/03
These Hands Can Only Craft So Much ( 1:33 )
A short, driving song again based around some simple intervals. People seem to like this one.
