I recorded some music at a gig this weekend.

These first few are with my friend John "Pepperjack" Correa on lead guitar:
It's Video - Download
(The Blues Means) Born to Lose - Download

Then I went on with my band The Strangers. Here's a few tracks from that:
Fuck The Man - Download
Not That - Download
Cream - DownloadAlso, the dean from UCLA Law ( Read more... )

We went to Disneyland today and had a pretty good time. There was lots of ragtime music playing, so I thought it would be fun to write a ragtime tune. When I got home I wrote a little bit:

Get Up Rag - Download

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I still write music all the time, although I've written very few songs in the past 6 months or so.

Here's a piece I wrote for two clarinets and a piano. In MIDI the clarinets are pretty much just beeps, which I almost like better, but you can imagine they are real clarinets if you like.

PlunkPlunk

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So I didn't even make it as a semi-finalist in the songwriting competition I entered. On the other hand, I did finish my string quartet tonight. I still need to revise it a bit, probably, and I need to title it. But it feels good to have made it all the way through, to have all my ideas on the page and working together in interesting ways.

I don't think I've mentioned this on here before, but I've been working on a string quartet as a senior composition project. I've got three movements pretty much in the bag and I've made significant progress on my finale, so I should be essentially done in a few weeks. It is going to be performed once in April and once at the beginning of May. I ( Read more... )

I listened to an assload of music this weekend. I just want to point out some highlights:

"Call for All Demons" Sun Song Sun Ra
Songs for Drella Lou Reed and John Cale
"Your Love is the Place Where I Come From" Songs from Northern Britain Teenage Fanclub
"Pablo Picasso" The Modern Lovers The Modern Lovers
"If I Was Your Girlfriend" Sign O The ( Read more... )