Ghosts Of New Jerusalem -- now on Bandcamp

light beneath a bushel basket

St. Barley Day


A fun, spritely instrumental. Previously posted, just not too often heard.

Shambelle #1


Shaking and shuffling along, holding together as it falls apart, it's a fave. And also not so often heard.

22 May 04


I rather like this one too. One of a few late night/early morning meditations that fell together.

Maybe it needs a better name than a date, but long phrases come to mind:

"at night a pulse arrives"

"the last one found"

Low Field


Spacing out just a little more . . .

Flugel Drone, 26 Nov 04 Procession

Flugel Drone


Here's a fave of mine, named more or less for a very, very beat-up acoustic guitar I got in a thrift store on Mercury Blvd. in Hampton VA.

The snapping guitarish sound at pan center? Our special guest star . . .

26 Nov 04 Procession

22 May 04, View In White, Here I Go

22 May 04

Much as I like this instrumental, you might think I'd come up with a better title than the date I recorded it. Something pretty deserves a name. Or maybe it deserves as few words as possible.


View In White



If I recall, I wrote full lyrics for this song. The words weren't too bad. But I really liked the vocables better. A mood was served and therein a meaning could be read.


Here I Go

Shambelle #1, Pink Shambelle #4, Shambelle #3, BoDid's Feast

Shambelle #1


I think of these Shambelles, #1 here esp., as (mostly) non-MIDI cousins to instrumentals like Odd Slim and Opti-Suite. Rampantly off-key melodies that are by turns menacing and goofy.


Pink Shambelle #4



This might be called the "more reverb" version of Pink Shambelle and as such almost not a Shambelle at all. The creaky pitch bending on the Optigan towards the end may say otherwise.


Shambelle #3



This one sorta brings to mind Encounters With Insects . . .


BoDid's Feast

Happy Halloween

Here are a few holiday appropriate entries . . .

I am responsible for me: 12 Bit Jimson's spooky machine

Zsa-Zsa's Bra by any other name . . .

Encounters With Insects, Hey Little Darlin'

long beginning: wayohh

Wayohh is not spooky per se, but might go that way in a haunted house.

And tonight only, 7-10 PM Eastern time, Thick Wisps broadcast a live Halloween show.

long beginning: wayohh

Now and then, I'd want some way to incorporate sound into blogging. I'd try an option or so but it seemed kind of a bother.

Plus, as I:

A) was totally unconvinced of the need to share my own music with folks at large

B) only occasionally had a field recording that may be of interest

C) was already crossing the palms of most friends or other interested parties with CD-Rs

I had to wonder if audio blogging was any big deal.

But here, in the spirit of compartmentalization to the nth degree, is an experiment. My third and hopefully final blog: audiokayness.

For, while looking at the sound blog of visual & audio artist Juan Matos Capote, I noticed he was using Twango to host audio files of his DIY electronic contraptions, recent sound collaboration, etc.

So thanks to Juan's initiative & Twango, here's my first submission--a long spacy chant like improv thing I did in '04 called Wayohh. Click on the play icon below (or click here) and away we go.

Wayohh


As the music is here to hear, I'll almost leave it at that:

It's neither typical of what I do, or what I've done. Nor is it all that atypical.

What I may one day explain is the stylistic breadth of what I perpetrate. Generally tho', my stuff is somehow closer to pop music than this.

Have fun. Here and/or somewhere else.