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I’ve been working on the collection of my music I have online. For too long I’ve had a semi-random assortment of poorly organized mp3s here. Some time ago I began to work on improving it but left off with much to do. Now I’m trying to finish, or at least get much further along. One problem is that there is no obvious link to my music from my website’s main page (this page you are looking at). So I am posting this now in part to Let It Be Known, and in part to provide links. Since I have begun extremely slow about blogging I expect this post to remain here at the top of the page for a long time.

I have organized my music into ten main categories, or to use the old fashioned term, albums. Four are actual albums I made and released on audio CD (the oldest was on cassette tape). So these have a set number of tracks in a specific order and will never change. Four more are collections of music grouped by time period (1980s, early 1990s, late 1990s, 2000s). Of the last two collections one is of the synthed-up classical music things I’ve done, the other is a set of music that doesn’t fit anywhere else, mostly sketches and annoying things I keep for nostalgic reasons.

The four “actual albums” are Duckapus, Disconnect, /dev/null, and Perplexions.

The “time period” sets are Brainforest, which is my most recent music, made after moving to Seattle in 2001; Ow My Eye!, which is music from the late 1990s when I lived in New York City and used digital audio recording tools on a Macintosh computer; Flowers Fall Weeds Spring Up, which is music from the early 1990s when I lived in Denver and New York City and made music on a Windows computer with MIDI only, recording the results to cassette tape; and HS2UB, which is music from my High School and College years in the late 1980s.

The synthed-up, often mangled classical music pieces are collected in the set Bach Bach Bagaaw. They are mainly pieces by J.S. Bach, but some are Beethoven, Bartok, and Rachmaninoff. The final set of things that don’t fit anywhere else is called Misc Cinders.

I plan to keep these category “album” names. In the past I frequently renamed sets of music. “Ow My Eye!” was originally a specific audio CD I made for some forgotten reason. It seemed the right name for the late 1990s music. Other names I’ve used for some of this music include “Liquid’s Cold Weight”, “Short Circuit”, “Aeute”, and “Nihil”, among others. The early 1990s music set was harder to name. In the past I’ve used names like “Phloxx” for some of it, but that name comes from a specific tape I made, and I can’t quite bring myself to use it for the larger time period. So just last night I decided once and for all to call it “Flowers Fall Weeds Spring Up”, for various reasons. The phrase comes from a Zen text, Dogen’s “Genjokoan”, which I first learned about in the early 1990s. The stuff from my High School and College years is probably not worth listening to, mostly. But some people might get a laugh out of some of it, and I want to keep it around for myself. In the past I had a plethora of “album” names, mostly from the cassette tapes that the music ended up on. Names like “NEW TAPE”, “Triple Moon”, and “Galoob”. Stuck for a name for the whole shebang I just made up “HS2UB”, which just means “high school” to “UB”, the college I went to.

So please explore these links and musics! I’m right now in the process of adding and improving the archive. Within a few weeks I’ll probably be done for now. I’m trying to make sure all the mp3s have good ID tags, using these “album” names. I’m also working on writing descriptions of each piece of music, although there are too many for me to write about all of them. Anyway, that is all, please to check it out.