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    <description><![CDATA[All of these pieces were made in the past year in what very little free time I've had, and all are based on a wide range of approaches, gear, and concepts.  

Tape manipulation, analog feedback loops, internal mixing board feedback, prepared instruments, found tapes, shortwave radio, homemade samples from field recordings, software, and other similar sorts of gear comprised the majority of the sound sources for the corpus.  Things are arranged into different 'albums' primarily because the website allows for it, and because it provides a convenient way of grouping material according to different criteria (participants, gear, methods, chronology, and so on).  

Most of my favorite material is in Forms and Figure as well as the recent "Mixer & [x] Pedals" pieces in There Is No Category For Now.  The latter no-instrument mixer pieces are very much 'back to basics' types of affairs, as I've returned to the original no-instrument mixer method to rethink my set-up from the ground up.  Keep in mind that these are very much sketch pads by which I am trying to explore the range of the gear, but also :to play: the thing.  Some of the results have been exciting, but there are silly moments too ("Last of the Day" has some not-so-fabulous moments mid-way through).  An interesting element of mixer playing is that you've got to explore every nook and cranny in order even to see what is possible, much less to play or compose with it; and the player really must listen back repeatedly to the playing so as to learn what worked, what didn't, and what might.  For this reason I posted a bunch of these tracks, which are, as I said, basically sketchs.  

Nothing here, out of all of the recordings, has been edited much (virtually nothing, actually), and certainly nothing has been mixed down, mastered, or finalized.    

There is additional information about each album posted on the blog entries.  Just click on them.  The entries go out of date fairly quickly, however, because I continue to post new music without updating descriptions ... something to keep in mind ....

In order to play a track, first click on the album you'd like to listen to, then click on the title of the individual piece in the player at the top of the page and wait for the song to load.  There may be a brief delay, but after that, the piece should play in its entirety.  In order to see all of the tracks available on each album, merely click on the arrow on the bottom frame of the player's browser and scroll down.  If a track takes what seems to be too long to load, pay no mind, as a couple of the pieces are long and load slowly.  On occasion, however, nothing will load or play, in which case you only need go back to the profile and click around a couple of times before going back to the 'album' you'd like to hear--the songs should now load.  Thank you very kindly for listening.

The photographs are mine (except for the concert flyer [thanks due to Norman for creating it], I had nothing to do with the image and post here only for fun).  None have been processed, edited, or cropped in any way.  The sizes vary because I didn't know what I was doing when I loaded them, though I do now, so perhaps I'll fix that.  If you click on the first image below, you will be able to scroll through them sequentially. Choose either "previous" or "next" and then follow til the end.   Thanks.]]></description>
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      <title>Oh Yeah Edits </title>
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      <title>Flange 52</title>
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      <title>No Input Mixer 8/12/07</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2007 02:54:52 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>Duo/Improvisation (8/7/07) - nwl &amp; apt</title>
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      <title>Evening</title>
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      <title>Improvisation 6.25.07</title>
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      <title>Glance</title>
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      <title>More of the Four</title>
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      <title>Kykloi</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2007 09:48:47 -0700</pubDate>
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