043008

sample of lou harrison's gamelan (from mills college) tracking for "you are the sun & moon" by the atomic bomb audition:

042908

sample of the word "dead" stolen from alee karim's vocal for the song "we speak to the revelator" by the atomic bomb audition:

042808

rusty toy xylophone from my backyard:

042708

cow moo sound toy from the munich airport:

042608

sample stolen from jason hoopes' vocals from "copernicus" by the atomic bomb audition:

042508

castanet from granada, spain:

042408

sample of the word "there" stolen from "we speak to the revelator" by the atomic bomb audition:

042308

one whistle, one humming, one singing, all pitched up one octave:

042208

happy earth day with me humming, whistling, and singing (multitracked 9 times in total):

042008/042108

woops! missed blog posting yesterday (unfree internet at hotel in geneva), so here's 042008 with the elevator bell from the hotel cornavin in geneva, switzerland (heavily filtered):



and 042108 with me humming:

041908

matthias bossi, carla kihlstedt, zeena parkins, and myself on a steinway grand in the dressing room of the lugano svizzera radio station:

041808

toy xylophone from the imaginarium store at the barcelona airport:

041708

oscar kaiser and myself singing in the hotel patio cartuja in sevilla, spain:

041608

the dialtone from a phone at the hotel navas in granada, spain (kinda flat, but whatever...):

041508

wine bottle from amsterdam:

041408

matthias jentsch and i singing in the hotel movenpick:

040908-041208

woops, damned european internet charging by the hour, i got kicked off, so i lost this blog posting:


040908 with the bell from the hotel lev elevator in ljubljana, slovenia:


041008 with a wine bottle at a lovely restaurant in venice, italy:


quentin sirjacq and myself singing in pantin (paris), france:


and happy birthday to me with a wine bottle from carla kihlstedt at a restaurant in pantin (paris), france:

041308

a dirty, nasty, distorted wine bottle from st. quentin (paris):

040708/040808

here's 040708 with Matthias Bossi on a lovely Bosendorfer grand piano in the basement of the Porgy & Bess club in Wien, Austria:



and then 040808 with Zeena Parkins, Fred Frith, and myself singing in the Johann Strauss hotel in Wien, Austria:

040608

cosa brava whistling in the van:

040408/040508

here's 040408 with cosa brava singing in the tour van:



and here's 040508 with me whistling (multitracked 3 times):

040308

my voice 9 times:

040208

220 Hz sawtooth wave reference pitch from my phone:

040108

happy april fools with a sample stolen from blur's "tender" from the AMAZING album "13":



p.s. i'll be on tour in europe with cosa brava for the next three weeks, so blogging will be sporadic at best.