| Recording Date | Tracks | |
| February 4, 2010 | One | Three |
| Lot's of new instruments: a Koto, a cello, a flute made from PVC tubing, and the sequencers that Michael added to his MFOS synth. Delaney was doing some very interesting thing with controlling drum samples that greatly expanded his range of sounds. We were very happy to be freed from the bounds of short tunes, but the discipline we gained from the loopfest and talent shows comes through in these extended pieces. | Two | |
| January 10, 2010 | One | |
| We played three days at the Half Moon Bay Talent Show at the Coastal Repertory Theater. It was a great experience. The biggest challenge was coming up with very short (for us) but at the same time interesting music. This is the recording of our last performance. Michael was proud to have started in one key and ended in another. | ||
| November 12 | One | Three |
| We had the chance to experiment with two new instruments; Michael's 1925 Conover Grand Piano, and the guitar through the MFOS synth. Delaney also provided some very interesting synth sounds and effects from Live. | Two | Four |
| Live At the Loopfest Y2K09, October 17 | One | |
| This is a 30 minute recording of our set at the Loopfest. It has multiple distinct sections, and I think it's a bunch of fun. | ||
| October 15 | One | Three |
| This was our session preparing for the Loopfest. Two, Three, and Four are particularly strong, and Four served as the template for what we ended up doing at the Loopfest. | Two | Four |
| October 7 | One | Three |
| Two has a really nice flute line, and Three has a great rhythm section towards the end of the tune. Four was the last piece we will (most likely) ever record in the LiveOps building. | Two | Four |
| September 23 | One | Three |
| I'm pleased with these. The acoustic thing has really been working for us, and this session is acoustic guitar (though this time with a bit of eBow), mandolin, whistle, Hang, doumbek, shekere, marimba, kalimba, mouth harp, didg, and accordion. | Two | Four |
| August 26 | One | Three |
| Probably just a bit too much electric guitar. Through the magic of the Fuzz Factory, I turn my guitar into an early Nintendo synthesizer in Three. | Two | |
| August 19 | One | Two |
| The synth again, but this time with some other instruments and a keyboard (home-made, too, of course). Two goes off the deep end again at the end. | ||
| July 29 | One | Three |
| I
got a new guitar! 1995 Martin OM 28 Vintage. One
uses it extensively in a lush, layered guitar casserole. Sprinkle
in a little mandolin, some whistle, and bake for 15 minutes in the
Organamatronic oven! Two is a re-examination of One slicing up much of the guitar rhythm from earlier into thumpier bits. Three is a kalimba filled fantasy that ends with the breathing of a dragon (or at least that's what I think the breathing of an accordion sounds like). |
Two | |
| July 14 | One | |
| Synth part 2. In this one there's still no "keyboard" to the synth. I'm just twisting knobs, flicking switches, and patching cords, but this time I tried to have more a sense of melody than the last effort. | ||
| June 24 | One | Three |
| This
was another of our quiet sessions that I'm beginning to like so much.
One is wine glasses, hammered dulcimer, kalimba, whistle, bass, marimba and all floaty. Listen to it as you go to sleep and see where it takes you. Two is funky, tribal and ethereal. |
Two | |
| June 17 | One | |
| The Music From Outer Space modular analog synthesizer is alive! If you like bleepy, bouncy, swoopy abstract music, this one's just for you. Think "Welcome to Machine". | ||
| June 10 | One | Three |
| Enter
the mouth harp! It's the perfect proto-techno sound, using the
mouth as a resonant filter long before Robert Moog ever thought to do
something electronic. Two is another one of my favorites, starting out with an Indian sounding accordion from which Delaney captures the perfect droney loop, and finishing with the dueling filters of the mouth harp and the wah wah pedal. |
Two | |
| May 21 | One | |
| Spacey with a double build. | ||
| May 6 | One | Three |
| Two is a nice march. Three ends with some good guitar growls. | Two | |
| April 8 | One | Two |
| One is the perfect quiet antidote to Two from the April 1 session. It starts with kalimba / marimba gamelan feel and Delaney playing the tank drum like a gong. Then takes off into some of my favorite Organamatronic music with Delaney playing the floor tom with his fingers while pressing his microphone into the head of the drum. Truly other-worldly sound. Listen for the squeak of the mic on the head. Oh, and we've got Coke can in there too. | ||
| April 1 | One | Two |
| Two makes some interesting changes, starting out upbeat and happy, shifting into some heavy, gritty tribal stuff, changing into a major key and then closing with an all out, distorted drum battle between Delaney on the kit and me on the doumbek. | ||
| March 26 | One | Three |
| In this session, we were working on prep for this fall's Y2KLoopfest (we'll let you know when we're performing). We'll have a 30 minute set, so we were trying to get many changes into a 30 minute piece of music. I like them all, but I think Two is most successful. | Two | |
| February 25 | One | Four |
| A bunch more new instruments. A ceramic Udu drum made by Michael's wife Greet, a handmade wooden drum, a doumbek, a home made "Dr. Quack" envelope controlled filter (Michael's first foray into electronics", and introducing A Roll Of Duct Tape (you can hear it on tune Two!) My favorites of the session are One, Two, and I think Four is one of the best we've done. | Two | Five |
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| February 4 | One | Three |
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| January 14 | One | Three |
| Delaney built a second Fuzz Factory, and michael used it extensively on tune two. We play no synths in the tune, and most of the weird sounding stuff is Michael twiddling Fuzz Factory knobs. Tune three ends with some lucky guitar generated wind sounds to go with the accordion melody, the contact-mic'ed helium tank drum and the marimba. | Two | |
| January 6 | One | Three |
| This session saw the extensive use of the accordion, some new electric kalimbas, and a drum machine in addition to the regular cast of characters. Tune two shows some really great things that can happen when an accordion runs into some filters at high speed. In tune four, Organamatronic goes lounge... | Two | Four |
| December 10 | One | |
| We only had a short time this night and the tune ended somewhat rough, but we introduced two new instruments; accordion and hammered dulcimer. Interesting. | ||
| October 8 | One | Three |
| We figured out that we can get more layering by using my Jam Man loop machine synced to MIDI. We also introduced Delaney's Fuzz Factory. | Two | |
| September 29 | One | Four |
| We introduced several new instruments this session. PVC tube percussion, | Two | Five |
| a hand made marimba, and Delaney blowing over a Coke can. | Three | |
| September 3 | One | Three |
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| August 27 | One | Three |
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| August 20 | One | Three |
| Delaney found an Omnichord and we started using it in this session | Two | Four |
| July 25 | One | Four |
| Live at the Red Rock Coffee Shop, Mt. View, CA | Two | Seven |
| With Andrew Davis on Violin | Three | Eight |
| July 23, 2008 | One | Three |
| Two | Four | |
| June 28, 2008 | One | Four |
| Live at the Half Moon Bay Farmers Market | Two | Five |
| with special guest | Three | |
| Andrew Davis on Violin | ||
| June 18, 2008 | One | Three |
| Two | Four | |
| June 5, 2008 | One | Two |
| May 21, 2008 | One | Three |
| Two | Four | |
| May 19, 2008 | One | Three |
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| April 30, 2008 | One | Three |
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| April 21, 2008 | One | Three |
| Two | Four | |
| April 16, 2008 | One | Three |
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| April 4, 2008 | One | Two |
| March 6, 2008 | One | |
| March 4, 2008 | One | |