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Sound Experiments

There is a connection between sound and visual information that is interesting to me. I enjoy recording and finding out the visual information contained in the composition. It's not exactly synesthesia, but probably sits right next to synesthesia at the dinner table.

  • S. Ex. no. 34

    September, 2026 (Labor day)
    Guitar and Effects.

  • ESP and Other Games

    October, 2024.

    My daughter and I improvised music to video at the Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Adjacent Variety Show.

  • S. ex. no. 30, Talk It

    August, 2024.

    I did one take each for the guitar and bass VI. The drums are from my basement, several months ago.
    I was really feeling some Bazooka Joe type Friday afternoon noise.

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    S. ex. no. 29, I like spiders.

    August, 2024.

    I was scanning one of my characters, and decided to film the progress. The spiders showed up later. Guitar by myself.

  • S. ex. no. 28, About to fall apart

    July, 2024.

    I recorded the drums last week, and then, on a different evening, recorded the guitar parts, having forgotten all about the drums. On a whim, I put them together and found they work. The voice at the end is from Sun Studio in Memphis. And the images are scraps of things I made with my iPad.

  • S. ex. no. 27, The Shadow of my Doubt

    July, 2024.

    Fender Bass XI w/ Mood mkii, Minim, space echo & moby depth. The video was made at Otherlands coffee bar in Memphis.

  • S. ex. no. 26, the broken pipe

    July, 2024.

    On my way back from a lunch meeting with a friend, I encounted a broken pipe in Arbutus, MD. The improvised guitar was played on an Ibanez Pia.

  • Elvis Presley's Oven

    June, 2024.

    Next in my series of Celebrity Ovens, I present you with Elvis Presley's oven at Graceland. I took this photo on a recent trip to Memphis. I recorded the drums on my iPhone in the cymbal room of the Memphis Drum Shop, which is in the Coopers-Young neighborhood near where we stayed. Ironically, there are no cymbals on this recording.

  • Electric Cow Head

    June, 2024.

    I worked this up on a Sunday, and played all the parts. My old man used to say "Jimmy, if you don't have anyone to play with, then play with yourself."
    And that's just what I did!

  • S. ex. no. 23, Indie Bookstore Day

    April, 2024.

    My wife and I walked through two of our favorite independent bookstores on Saturday the 27th - Independent Bookstore Day. I used a 3D scanning app on my phone to make the video. The music is an Ibanez Artcore Hollowbody electric guitar run through an Electoharmonix 22500 looper pedal directly into Logic Pro.

  • S. ex. no. 22, Theatre of Youth

    April, 2024.

    I made this using an upright bass by Ibanez. The pedals used were the Boss Hamonist, Old Blood Noise Endeavors' Visitor, Red Panda's Tensor, and Lossy, by Chase Bliss Audio. The video is from my phone, film in the theater lobby at Towson University.

  • S. ex. no. 21 (longer), In these Rooms

    March, 2024.

    I played some tonal stuff, and then put the guitar down. The pedals build their own loops and micro loops. It went on for about 13 minutes, gradually distorting and shifting.

    This is the longer edit, featuring:

    @mtl.asm count to five, @redpandalab tensor & particle, @chasebliss mood & habit, @bossfx_us @bossinfoglobal DD-8 & Space Echo.

    The video is from my phone.

  • S. ex. no. 21, Spring Break

    March, 2024.

    This is a short loop edit of the video above this one.

  • The Shopping Trip

  • Clowning Around with AI

  • S. ex. no. 20, Walk Good Part 2

  • S. ex. no. 19, Baltimore Farmers' Market

  • S. ex. no. 18

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