March, 2022 recordings in chronological order.

• 天壇大佛

I was thinking of the floating feeling on the gondola coming into Ngong Ping and seeing the Buddha from a distance for the first time. The synthesizers create new rhythms as the key signature is lowered and raised by three, six, and nine semitones.

• The Moment You Are Understood

• Curio Dub

Melodic fragment borrowed from “Curious Electric,” by Jon & Vangelis (1980).

• Grumble Radio Ad

Elton John & Tim Rice, “Lion King” (1994).  Tommy Wolf (1955).  I was trying for a Phoebe Snow ending, but it didn’t work out.  [sigh]

• Stumble Promo

Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne (1944). Chet Baker (1954). This is not an imitation of Gene Shalit, but of Eugene Levy’s impersonation of Gene Shalit on SCTV, and a little Calvert DeForest.  Recorded at Casa Lu An, Eagle Rock.

• Παρνασσός

My two most prominent anxiety of influences in electronic music will probably always be side two of “Rubycon” (1975), by Tangerine Dream, and an astounding treatment of Debussy’s “La cathédrale engloutie,” (1910), by Isao Tomita (1974).  So, I continue…

• Frank Winfield Woolworth

• I Left A Lovely Trout Near the Tuul Gol River

• Nobody Wants You, Baby

Variation on a theme by The Human League (1981).

• Your Grandkids Fart A Lot

• Ballin’ the Jack

Jim Burris & Chris Smith (1913). “For Me & My Gal” (1942): Judy Garland & Gene Kelly.

• Dance-o-Tron

I was trying for an early Joy Division sound with a wee bit of Tubeway Army.  My Ian Curtis turned out to sound more like Richard Nixon.

• Soliloquy for a Wayward Kidney Stone

Jim Burris & Chris Smith (1913).

• Lost Transmission in the 2nd Street Tunnel