Here’s another segment from the live recording I wrote about in the last entry. This is an excerpt from the piece Some Kind of Adhesive from One Day to Save All Life (2008, Unearthed Music). If you are familiar with the piece you will probably notice that this excerpt bares little resemblance to the original recording.
This is an example of how far a piece can stray from it’s original structure. The tempo hasn’t changed and some of the same instrument recordings are used, but these elements have been shaped into something new by cutting, stretching, looping, processing, and other forms of manipulation in real-time during the performance. This makes every set different from the next and keeps things interesting for us and (hopefully) our listeners.
Some Kind of Adhesive Live Mix (Excerpt)
This is one of several little magic moments from a recent performance with Nils Westdal. You can hear the Memory Man feedback come in at about twenty five seconds. Since we were limited to using laptops for this performance I was able to include the Memory Man as an external device as described in 
I made a recording of this piercing high powered hand dryer in the bathroom at a local pub. My friend Joe helped by going through the hand drying motions as I held the PCM-D50 recorder to capture this beautifully obnoxious high frequency noise.
I recorded this freight train during a winter bike ride with a group of friends recently. We rode through deep snow, on frozen lakes, head first into snowbanks and all over the place. 
Finding a new way to use my