1. My Advice

I was poking around the web and found a website concerned with backwards language, that is hearing unintentional words when certain phrases were played in reverse. One of them was a preacher talking, and when reversed, ihe says "My advice is rancid." So I created this little piece using that phrase.

2. Bananas Figs and Hothouse Grapes 2009

This improvisation was created in the studio in Tallahassee, Florida with Tim Risher, Charlie Baker and Ted Stanley. It features Ted on the guitar, Tim on vocals and Charlie on the electronics zingy sounds. The title comes from "Sweeney among the Nightengales", a poem by T.S. Eliot.

3. China

I became very interested in the shapenote tradition in the United States - I still am, but when I worte this piece, I was busily setting every tune I could find. This one is based on, obviously, the tune called "China". It's a little  chaconne in the lower part.

China - solo piano 2006

4. Over and Under

I wrote this piece for the Palladian Ensemble, an excellent early music group in England. It a long set of variations, and presents tricky writing for the violin and recorder.

Over and Under - alto recorder, violin, baroque guitar, bass gamba 1997

5. Slow

A short movement from my piece for cello and piano. I just like the mlodies than run through it. It sounds shapenote, but it ain't

Slow - cello and piano 2008

Writing for cello is quite difficult, but I wrote a little set for cello and piano. THis is the opening movement.

6. Weave Song 2009

This is a sample from a sculpture inside Second Life. It consists of looping sounds (all looping at different speeds). The sculpture itself is liquid woven water, designed by Sunn Thunders.

7. Chinoiserie 2009

This short sample is from a sculpure by Alizarin Goldflake, called "Chinoiserie". I used the sounds of the pipa, erhu, and a highly manipulated dizi as the basics loops.

 8. Banana Figs and Hothouse Grapes 2009

Got back together with my old band members from Paragate and we produced this little loop.

9. Pushing Water 2009

The poem is a fragment by Charles Alexander. The words are chopped up and then play along with the rhythms, ending with a recitation of a larger section from the poem. The poem itself is quite long, running into hundreds of pages. THis is only a teeny weeny section from it.