The net-radio show Astreaux World appears on the Live 365 dot com netaudio service. I've been a fairly long-time listener of the station, so I was particularly pleased to see that my song "Micrometer" off of my EP "Weights and Measures" made an appearance in the station's "top 10" list:

Top 10 list by listener votes as of December 19.

I'm pleased to announce a new Creative Commons free-download release.



Treetrunk Records is an experimental netlabel run by Thomas Jackson Park, who is the skilled ambient/noise/experimental artist Mystified and similarly skilled and intriguing in his other performing name Mister Vapor.

I'm delighted that today Treetrunk Records released a five track EP of my work entitled "Weights and Measures". Here is the link to the release, which contains more information and links for free download of mp3s or FLAC versions of the songs:

"Weights and Measures"

I created four songs for the EP using the software synthesizer Sawcutter 2.0, into which I placed samples I created of two Ocarinas, a plastic recorder and a Costa Rican flute. The fifth piece, "The Palsgraf Scale" [a reference to a famous railroad scale which featured in an early tort appellate opinion] uses the Tunafish sequencer and a set of software synthesizers.

Here is a player for the songs:



I'm delighted to have this bit of gentle experimentation in melody released.

Many thanks to Thomas Park for releasing the EP, and to Thomas Mathie over at Headphonaught, for his great cover photo.

Part of what I love about sharing music via the internet is the immediacy. Today a
fellow contacted me through ccMixter. "May I use your song in a non-commercial short film?". I reply in substance, "yes, of course, here's how to credit my work". He replies back in substance "Great! I'll send you a link when it's on line".

Never mind that he's in Spain and I'm in Texas USA. Never mind that we've never met, and never corresponded before. Never mind about money, never mind about editorial control. Never mind about production delays, lengthy negotiations, all that.

I post a song, liberally licensed. He confirms the credits, and puts it in a film.
Seamless, easy, and fun beyond belief.

My song "Bereft" appears on the "Classwar Karaoke 15" compilation. I'm delighted to get a chance to participate in this worthwhile set of songs:



I licensed two of my songs, "Sadness" [from Classwar Karaoke 11]and "Roadrunner" [from the Negative Sound Institute EP "Tallgrass Canticle"] for use by the kind documentarian Zev Robinson for his new film "Life on the Douro". The album also features a Thomas Nunnally Ensemble song and one of Verian Thomas' fine guitar pieces. I'm delighted to see these songs go into Zev's work.

I regularly listen to the Phantom Circuit Podcast, which hails from Birmingham over in beautiful England. I was delighted when I was asked to put together a song cycle to be featured for the podcast. Phantom Circuit Episode 77 now features my song cycle, a collection of gentle songs about rural or forgotten places near Manchester--a phantom circuit for an imaginary railway on tracks of the narrowest gauge. Many thanks go out to the Phantom Circuit Podcast, and to Kevin there, who made the process extraordarily smooth.

Phantom Circuit #77 (12th July 2011) by Phantom Circuit on Mixcloud

I live near Sister Grove Trail, a lovely trail through the north Texas scraggle woods. This morning the trail featured many wildflowers, which I photographed and present here with my song "Winter Lights":

The kind folks at Classwar Karaoke released their newest compilation. My song "Starling" appears on it: