http://unrecnow.com/dust/audio/02_07_10m.mp3

today i was attempting to clean out my basement (no easy task) when i unearthed my old pioneer tube spring reverb unit.  i used to use it extensively in the effects loop of my old tascam 4-track but over time it grew noisier and noiser over time until the input signal was barely audible.  i was kind of hoping that in the 10 years that it has been sitting around gathering dust that it somehow self-healed.  no such luck. the springs still sound great but no signal will pass through them anymore.

i did discover that i was able to rest my acoustic guitar on top of the reverb tanks and play through it that way.  the vibrations from the body of the guitar carry straight into the springs.  noisy but kind of beautiful in a way.

i will try and see if anyone in town will service it for me. if not, it is time to say good-bye.

here are some bits of thumb piano and acoustic guitar being cut up and manipulated using my monome 64 + sean pierce’s max for live version of brian crabtree’s wonderful mlr.

http://unrecnow.com/dust/audio/01_03_10m.mp3

(download)

it was a cold windy day in portland today.  i saw it snowing quite a bit around 3am but none of it stuck.  i wonder if we will get anything like the snow we got last year.

here is a little improvisation with acoustic guitar and eventide timefactor.

(you can listen/download here or listen below)

http://unrecnow.com/dust/audio/12_06_09m.mp3

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here is a rough version of a little piece of music + video.  the music is all just acoustic guitar processed using the eventide timefactor delay/looping pedal (with a little reverb).  the video is a shot out the window of a moving car processed using a quartz composer tool called g.p.g.

i’d like to fine tune this at some point but i was much to sleepy to continue at the moment.

enjoy.

some photos of little hospital details and 4min of slow moving guitar for you on a monday morning.

acoustic guitar, granular delay, ring modulation.

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http://unrecnow.com/dust/09_27_09m.mp3

(you can listen here if you don’t have flash)

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http://unrecnow.com/dust/audio/09_19_09m.mp3

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just some acoustic guitar drones + plucking that i recorded tonight.  nothing too fancy.

the photo above is of a logging truck that i was driving along side the other day.  i find it to kind of be both pretty and sad.

(if you don’t have flash, you can listen here.)