digital assemblage
words, colors, waveforms, and transients
at sixes and sevens
mixed media collage
Welcome to digital assemblage.
Here is an overview of where to find things:
Recent formally released sound recording can be found in the sonic lab, while work in-process, audio sketches, and other miscellany are collected in the sonic notation section.
The visual section of the site features recently created images: collages, sketches, watercolor, and other mixed media work.
The library section contains books (print and audiobooks) of interest: read, reading, or to be read.
If you want to know more about me, please check out the about page, and if you want to contact me visit here.
Thanks for visiting!
Sonic Lab
Releases: Singles
Recently, I have been exploring adding and manipulating, in real time, layers of sound. Essentially, challenging myself to create a "live" track/recording, one that is complete in and of itself when finished.
I have been inspired, determined really, to explore more of what I already have for making and recording music/sounds. In fact, as I can, I have been investing more time with odds and ends and things I have had for a while but not spent enough time with.
I contributed this track in response to one of the weekly Disquiet prompts.
This piece evolved over a number of weeks with each session being anywhere from a few moments to several hours. Consciously, but not in a driven way, I challenged myself to create and record a longer piece that incorporated some choice field recordings I had recently made.
This track was composed using my trusty Fender Telecaster Deluxe with some (not all!) effects created by my very modest (and well-loved!) pedal board.
Sonic Notation | Work in-process, audio sketches, and other miscellany
I have been slowly working on a project tentatively titled, "nostalgiscapes." The title is a portmanteau comprised of "nostalgia" and "landscapes." Loosely exploring how certain sonic landscapes evoke an emotional connection to a past landscape or space, romanticized but also tinged with melancholy— returning and a loss rolled into one ambient moment.
Earworms | Music that has captured my ears, my sonic imagination…or, hopefully, both!
From The Complete In a Silent Way by Miles Davis, “The Ghetto Walk” has been on heavy listen, a go-to of late that reminds me of just how deep and rewarding Miles’ catalog is—in that this is a previously unreleased gem off the three-disc compilation of the “In A Silent Way” sessions.
Visuals
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Mixed Media
Thinking in motion, temporally, is challenging for me. I am so used to thinking statically and in in the context of mediums that are inherently more fixed; where the motion is in the solitary brush stroke or pencil movement.
Another exploration in the world of shapes, lines, and color. Even though it is not like my other "graphic notations", it stills feel related.
Library
Sonic Reference Library: Titles of interest: read, reading, or to be read.
I listened to author Harry Sword read (audiobok version) this deep dive into the wonders of the drone and its adjacent world of sound-makers.
I am currently, very slowly, making my way through this incredible volume by Thomas Brett.
