Shorts: #22 For Benjamin Britten (2007) Commissioned and titled by Michael Strickland (aka sfmike) Mike gave me the title before I wrote the piece. I spent a lot of time thinking about what to do with this. This last year, I learned that the Phillips Corporation had intended to get Britten to do the music [...]

Shorts: #20 Poodleface Birthday (2007) Commissioned by Graham Coleman in honor of Rob’s birthday. Happy Birthday Rob! I made this piece in BEA 5 in Sonology in the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. I was hung over (after playing tuba the night before) and up at an extremely early hour because my dog had an [...]

Shorts: #15 Space Corridor (2007) Commissioned and titled by Graham Coleman. I made this pieace in the BEA 5 lab at Sonology at the Royal Conservaory in The Hague, Netherlands. This uses MIDI-controlled analog oscillators and the primary sound source. My friend Nick Fox-Gieg set up the MIDI control from his laptop and helped me [...]

Shorts: #13 Contact (2007) Commissioned and titled by Sean Johnson. It was created in the BEA 5 lab in Sonology at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. That lab is a room full of a giant voltage controlled synthesizer. The basis for all the sounds in this piece came from a comparitor. Two triangle waves, [...]

Shorts: #8 svp (2007) Titled and commissioned by Gino Robair This was made in the BEA 5 lab of Sonology at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, the Netherlands. It’s made with VOSIM controlled by a sequencer and being run through a third octave filter, which is some crazy custom, antique european thing. Man, that [...]

Short Attention Span: #4 Radioactive (2007) This short piece was made with sounds generated in the BEA 5 lab in Sonology at the Royal Conservatory of the Netherlands in The Hague. There were mixed with a remote-controlled macmini running Ardour and Audacity. My lab partners Dave and Tomer most likely contributed to the source sounds. [...]

Short Attention Span: #2 Glitch (2007) Continuing to embrace rather than fight my short attention span, here is the second one in the series. The sounds were generated in the BEA 5 lab in Sonology at the Royal Conservatory of the Netherlands in The Hague. There were mixed with a remote-controlled macmini running Ardour and [...]

Short Attention Span: #1 Buildup (2007) Rather than fight my short attention span, I’ve decided to embrace it and do a series of really short works. This is the first in the series. The sounds were recorded in the massive analog synthesizer in BEA 5 in Sonology, in the Royal Conservatory, in The Hague, the [...]