Shorts: #29 Raining Up (2009)

Commissioned and titled by Autumn Looijen
This piece was created using a MOTM Synthesizer and mixed in Ardour. There were several false starts. I had been doing field recordings of storms and for a while, every artificial sound I made seemed to also sound like weather. The title [...]

Shorts: #28 Untitled (2008)
Commissioned and (un)titled by Cecile Moochnek
I wasn’t looking for a commission when I walked into the Cecile Moochnek Gallery on 4th Street in Berkeley. I was looking to do Christmas shopping. But I got talking to the gallery owner about art and music and she asked me to write [...]

Commissioned and titled by Josh Fruhlinger. (2007)
Josh gave me the title before I started the piece. Gil Thorp is the name of a surreal American newspaper comic which is supposed to be about high school sports. Josh runs a blog discussing newspaper comics, called the Comics Curmudgeon.
I recorded (British) football from my TV, which included [...]

Shorts: #25 Untitled (2007)
Commissioned and (un)titled by Scott Wilson
I talked today about whether or not he wanted to give me a title, and Scott noted that the piece has a “flatuent quality,” but it would be better to resist referencing that in a title.
To make this piece, I recorded myself playing a bovine signaling [...]

Shorts: #26 Ecstatic Rivulet (2007)
Commissioned and titled by Clyde Niesen
For this piece, I wanted to use a field recording that I made while camping over the summer. Visually, the campground looked like it would make a suitable set for a horror movie. The animals were correspondingly loud and screetchy at night and [...]

Shorts: #23 Gamut (2007)
Commissioned and titled by Devin Hurd
I made this piece several weeks ago and I’m afraid that my methods have left my memory. It is made with an MOTM analog synthesizer.
 

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Shorts: #24 For College Promo (2007)
Commissioned and titled by Jean Sirius, who is using it for a video sound track.
I wanted to something that started out collegiate, but got more playful further in. The opening is square waves, which are pulse-width modulated and slightly frequency modulated. While I was recording them, my [...]

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 [...]

Shorts: #21 Anarchy and Rapture (2007)
Commissioned and titled by Polly Moller in memory of Leigh Ann Hussey, who died tragically in a motorcycle accident on May 16, 2006.
I didn’t ever meet Leigh Ann, but I typed her name into google and found a memorial. It was clear right away that I would have liked [...]

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 early [...]