Looking for something to do this weekend? How about spending it with a talking donkey? I’ll be playing guitar, mandolin, and ukulele with Niwot High School’s production of Shrek The Musical November 13th through 16th. On Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights the curtain is at 7pm and there’s a matinee Sunday at 2pm. Bring the whole family for a toe-tapping… Read more →
Set One (6-7) Chasing the Mantra Mr. Phatpants 30 & Counting Building a Better Tree Flight of the Neo-Cerebral Peace Iguana Number 42 Set Two (7:15-8) Watching Water Brofoya Somewhere East of Omaha Upper Ethereal Song for the Children Toxic Chili Set Three (8:15-9) Change Ode to John Francis Jamangottu Ricky Loves LuLu HippiPOTamus Remember Peace Read more →
Join Graphite Addiction at Mo Betta Gumbo in Loveland, Colorado this Saturday (October 18th) for an evening of thoroughly confounding music. Tim Carmichael, Pete Ehrmann, and I will be playing Tim’s Watching Water album in its entirety, along with a smattering of old and new originals. There will be heavy grooves, burning solos, introspective ballads, and oud. Because oud makes… Read more →
This is a quick ad Tim Carmichael and I did last Friday for Rip Club Sewing Lounge in Loveland, Colorado. We recorded it on Tim’s Boss Micro BR using my Acoustic Image Clarus 2R as a preamp for both the microphone and guitar. A bit of post in Audacity and we were done. Not bad for an hour’s work…. Read more →
My previous book, the Thesaurus of Diatonic Sets, describes the relationships between the content of the subsets of the diatonic or other seven-note scales. It served that purpose well, but I soon found a basic flaw in its approach to pandiatonisim. It is careful about the set content but woefully lacking in concern about how sets move, treating all sets… Read more →
The music industry is in bad shape. Record labels are losing money. Naturally, I started a record label. The Catalog So Far: Thesaurus of Diatonic Sets — The book that started it all. Lots of numbers, and they only make sense if you’re used to pandiatonic composition. Still, Still, Still — The first audio release was a reissue of Aspen… Read more →
Pete Ehrmann and I have just released an album of our favorite swing tunes from the past seven years of gigging as The Pete & Vic Duo. Give it a listen below or find out more at Curious Automata. Read more →
Photographer/Renaissance Man Gravee reworked “Somewhere Else Entirely” from Analogues of Infinity into a meditative accompaniment to his time-lapse of a sunset at Ish Reservoir. It’s well worth 45 seconds of your time. “Analogues of Infinity” was released under a Creative Commons Attribution license so you can use it for your own creations. Download the full album here or at Curious… Read more →