solo cymbal record, birthday

photo by emily lacy

good news everyone! ‘metal circles//sound spheres’ (my solo amplified cymbal improvisation) is going to become a record, and it will be released on pfMentum, a label specializing in west coast creative music. my soon-to-be label mates include jeff kaiser, vinny golia, grampus, michael vlatkovich, and steuart liebig.

i’ll be going down to the university of california at san diego’s recording studio this thursday, february 9, to record the material with jeff kaiser engineering the session. it’s going to be a crazy sounding album. i will post more information as more information exists.

here’s the performance from july 2009 at the hammer museum in los angeles. its an mp3.

 

also, my drumset turns four years old this week. hooray.

February 6, 2012 – 5:12 pm | By admin | Posted in gigs, ramblings, sounds | Comments (0)

quick butcher’s

  greetings. here’s tentative start dates of some upcoming things i’m involved in that will be posted here as they get nearer. february 24: i’ll have a piece going into a gallery in bristol, england as part of a show called ‘B E A U T Y W I L L D E S T …

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January 23, 2012 – 6:40 pm | By admin | Posted in ramblings | Comments (0)

somewhen, things to overcome, party

somewhen or other: partial list of days it is today all dates ‘m/d/y’ unless noted   –gregorian (pope gregory, also of gregorian chant fame), solar: 12/31/2011 –julian (caesar, that is), solar: 12/18/2011 –hebrew, solar-lunar: 10/5/5772 –islamic, lunar: 2/5/1433 –french republican (failed, but became the metric system), astronomical: 4/1.10 [tenth day of first 10 day week …

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December 31, 2011 – 2:56 pm | By admin | Posted in gigs, ramblings | Comments (0)

lady gaga vs the mcdonalds cheeseburger

a billboard near my house for the famous burger reads: ‘built for your cravings.’ that’s as close to truth in advertising as i’ve seen. the burger is designed and, crucially, consistently executed with enough fat, salt, and sugar to provide an extremely flavorful and instantly gratifying food experience, with ingredients sourced and purchased in such …

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December 20, 2011 – 4:52 pm | By admin | Posted in ramblings | Comments (0)

thanks, Paul

  Earlier this morning, November 22, 2011, the drummer Paul Motian passed away at 80. The painter Piet Mondrian managed to describe how i experienced Paul’s music in the same way as he justified his paintings I believe it is possible that, through horizontal and vertical lines constructed with awareness, but not with calculation, led …

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November 22, 2011 – 2:30 pm | By admin | Posted in ramblings | Comments (0)

chord four tour three recap madness

  two mondays ago chord four wrapped a short tour up the coast. we played we clinicked we played we hung out. a lot. all evidence was lost. we took pictures we played it was fun. here’s a new track of mine we did for this tour called superficialityexpialidocious: to those of you who supported …

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October 23, 2011 – 12:22 am | By admin | Posted in gigs, sounds | Comments (0)

what if it sounded like

  here’s photos of 7 out of 15 pieces displayed at the long beach soundwalk. the pictures were taken alternately by sasha swedlund and peter woodford. sasha also fabricated the pieces from my specifications, because i’m a printing lab dunce, and installed them, because i was on tour. many thanks to sasha. they were placed …

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October 15, 2011 – 4:44 pm | By admin | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (0)

chord four tour three // long beach soundwalk

hey y’all. planning and booking this tour was a bear, but we made it. it’s a little tiny tour, but it looks like its going to be a blast. here’s the dates: chord four tour three 28 Sept 2011 – Steynberg Gallery – San Luis Obispo, CA – 8pm – $10 All Ages 30 Sept …

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September 25, 2011 – 8:27 pm | By admin | Posted in gigs | Comments (0)

hear here (they’re there)

  thanks for stopping by. go here to hear the second free download from chord four, to help promote our upcoming tour. this weeks is ‘Jane McMillan’ by andrew conrad. tri-melodica-madness!!! also, chord four now has an official website, for you to register your opinions at, to hear our music at, to read our press …

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September 10, 2011 – 5:48 pm | By admin | Posted in sounds | Comments (0)

free music, and free music, but not free music

  chord four is preparing for our third self-produced tour. news will be posted here as news exists. one of the things we’re doing to celebrate/promote is to give away one live track per week from one of our previous two tours. this is the first of those. two pieces of mine– balloon dance and …

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September 5, 2011 – 11:36 am | By admin | Posted in sounds | Comments (0)