Week Thirty-three

Week Thirty-three is an acoustic guitar lullaby-for-child degraded to various levels of fidelity by cassette recorders, resulting in the emergence of a hyper-compressed, unintentional melody. (2 minutes, 33 seconds).


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Week Thirty-two

Week Thirty-two is an improvisation on a finger-picking melody that is often played for the daughter. (4 minutes, 44 seconds).


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Non-week item

This video promotes the upcoming cassette and album release of "Great Melodies From Around," 44-minutes of great melodies performed by Ben Wildenhaus.

Week Thirty-one

'Weeks' are now a constructed conception of time for this. In non-blog time, a baby is coming any week now.

Here, the red guitar is outfitted with a pickup made in Coos Bay, OR. It battles the usual SG minor chord improvisation. Sharp v. Round. (4 minutes, 10 seconds).


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Week Thirty

Limited notes by accordion and electric guitar organized. (2 minutes, 40 seconds).


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Week Twenty-nine

Tapes and bass guitar improvisation. Week Twenty-nine is in honor of the great Pacific Northwest. (3 minutes, 23 seconds).



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Week Twenty-eight

Improvisation on red guitar (4 minutes, 44 seconds).


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Week Twenty-seven

Piano plays a 4/4 chordal backing. Destructed sine waves ruin accordion melody. Bass enters to compliment the piano while the sine waves attempt to ruin everything. For Johanne Fück. (4 minutes, 12 seconds).

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Week Twenty-six

Week Twenty-six is layered guitar improvisations. The exploited difference here is between wet and dry guitar strings. Ab is the name of the game. (5 minutes, 10 seconds).


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Week Twenty-five

Week Twenty-five is an electric guitar improvisation over a rhythmic and tonal center established with a loop. F. F#. A melody emerges in minute 4. (5 minutes, 25 seconds).


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Week Twenty-four

This is thirty-five seconds of the upcoming 43 minute LP "Great Melodies From Around", to be released sometime in 2010. I made this brief sampler to account for the lack of recordings the past two weeks. Been hard at work (35 seconds).

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Week Twenty-three

Week Twenty-three is solo electric guitar. (2 minutes, 34 seconds).

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Week Twenty-two

A version of "RE: I Person I Knew", by Bill Evans. The song moves over a pedal C. Performed on SG. (2 minutes, 53 seconds).

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Week Twenty-one

Been thinking about what life is like in the Pacific Northwest. This is one rather claustrophobic envisioning of it. There are surely others. I suppose it might sound like Bill Orcutt and Dave Holland. (4 minutes, 40 seconds).

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Week Twenty

"Gnossiennes I - Lent" by Erik Satie. This week is a live performance featuring two electric guitars, one of which has been captured by a phrase sampler. In order for this recording to be five minutes, the last portion of the composition has been excluded. (5 minutes, 2 seconds).

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Week Nineteen

Week Nineteen first oscillates between Dbm/Ab and Abm/E. In the bridge the chords Ebm7/Db, Gm, Db/Gb repeat before returning to the previous two chords. There is also a melody. Performed by SG. (5 minutes, 10 seconds)

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