New album uploaded to last.fm: The Powerbook Project

Just posted to my last.fm page: A new album with 3 tracks called The powerbook project. These are tracks that were recorded in glorious 8-bit quality using a small mic that I had handy - and then messed around with the samples to produce something that I think is interesting, anyway!

Click here to listen to The Powerbook Project

"Christmas Laugh" is a collage of sounds from a family Christmas gathering.

"Patrick" was created in the summer of 1994 with sounds from my then 4 month old son. All of the drum sounds came from a single incident of dropping the mic on the table.

"The Meal" is my personal favorite - a synopsis of what happens AFTER you overeat at Christmas dinner. There's a cool buildup towards the end - all of those sounds were created from the original, which is the very last sound in the piece.

Definitely not anything you'd hear on the radio - but pretty interesting anyway!

Tom's Last.Fm page

Other albums:
The Outhouse Miscellany Project
One Syllable Songs
Priority Shift (with Caleb Rule)
VBX

Not-so-normal material:
Music Appreciation Experiments
Miscellaneous & Live

Much of this material is available for licensing at GovAccessMusic.com

Not dead yet!

It's just been a while since posting - but lots of stuff has been happening musically!

I've been co-writing with Joey Stuckey over the last year as schedules permitted - we have 3 satirical country tunes plus 8 jazz tunes on paper, and plan to start recording next week. Big plans, lots of creativity, and a lot of fun!

Watch this space for links to new tunes and NEW - Charts! - available online at a variety of locations. Another of my latest efforts is to post actual sheet music for some of the more popular tracks posted. I'll post the links here, so keep an eye out.

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