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Charts
Maps for exploration.
- A Thing (1996)—The first thing I wrote on guitar.
- Between the Waters (2014)—On thankfulness for lack of rain.
- Fickle Field (2010)—A musical portrait of Berthoud, Colorado. Not much here.
- Flag on the Moon (2004)—Repeat it for no reason.
- Four, Ted (2011)—Three for everyone else.
- Frickle Frackle (2013)—“Fickle Field” reworked into a bop-ish tune.
- Grin (2013)—Early-Pat-Metheny-esque tune based on triadic arpeggios connected by 1/2 steps. Basically George Garzone meets Bright Size Life.
- Half the Times I’ve Failed (2011)—A dark melody of few notes.
- john calvin’s bad dream (1999)—A little too much free will.
- Kiddo (2013)—A quirky 12 tone piece.
- Laetitia (1997)—Melodic curves.
- Laetitia’s Lost Chords (2011)—New harmonization and a slight melodic change for “Song for Laetitia”. Proof that I endlessly fiddle with tunes and need to stop using a certain Corsican model’s name in song titles.
- Malicious Compliance (2004)—How to be wrong by being precise.
- The Monster Paul (2000)—Wherewalf. Wharwilf. Wharwolf. No matter how you say it, Paul is some kind of bat/wolf/bear thing.
- Penguin Eddie (2011)—It was an emperor penguin.
- Pumas Can’t Fly (2004)—(unless defenestrated)
- Ricky Loves LuLu (1999)—If you see it painted on a bridge it must be true.
- Ricky Loves LuLu (Revised, 2010)—Proper harmonies for the bridge of the tune about a bridge.
- Serva Jugum (2013)— Rocking Gopucha Yati style.
- Smolkin’s Boogie (2014)—A wandering blues.
- Somewhere East of Omaha (2013)—“It’s not really a rhythm.”
- Somewhere West of Wichita (2013)—Also not really a rhythm.
- Song for Laetitia (1998)—The rejected sketches for Laetitia make a better tune than the original.
- Swim, Swim, Hungry (2004)—Dopefish Lives!
- Wisest and Best (2000)—Fix your attention on the good and the beautiful.
Improvisations
Spontaneous compositions, occasionally revisited.
- Apologies in the Mirror (2016, BMI)—.
- Ardmore, South Dakota (2016, BMI)—.
- Caustic Vapors (2013)—Noisy yet ethereal.
- Coalescence (2014, BMI)—Harmonics resonance restores tonality to the noise of Somewhere in the City.
- Diffusion (2014, BMI)—Multitap delays and the introduction of harmonic and metrical dissonance.
- Divine Volition (2014, BMI)—Restatement of left blank‘s dark side.
- E Minor (2013)—Just one chord.
- Everything From Edges (2016, BMI)—.
- First Cause (2014, BMI)—Chord stabs transformed through self oscillating delays.
- Floating on the Mare Tenebrarum (2014, BMI)—The loop, wanderings, a bit of noise, and silence.
- Forgotten Counties (2016, BMI)—.
- Good Morning (2013)—Hopefully.
- Greatest Small Victories (2016, BMI)—.
- Greenpoint (2013)—Not about Brooklyn
- I-80 (2013)—Kinda repetitive, just like the road.
- I-85 (2013)—Almost I-80.
- In Uncertain Times (2016, BMI)—Uncertainty in three parts.
- Inevitable Annihilation (2014, BMI)—Just like the title says.
- Inside Around (2013)—I play the loop. The delay makes it weird.
- It’s No Wonder We Can’t Sleep (2013)—Because it’s really loud. Oddly, people seem to really like this tune.
- Lance Creek Wyoming, 3am (2013)—Stargazing.
- The Less Within the Greater (2014, BMI)—The left blank theme returns in tatters.
- The Lurking Terror (2013)—Feedback and echoes.
- Mount Aetna (2014, BMI)—A folksy tune to kick off left blank
- Negative One Twelfth (2013)—The punchline to Analogues of Infinity
- New Strings (2016, BMI)—.
- Old Strings (2016, BMI)—.
- Original Unity (2014, BMI)—Grooving with delay as the timekeeper.
- Practicable Roads to Truth (2014, BMI)—Looping as the pedalboard dies.
- Questioning (2013)—A typo changed it from Questing, which seems more fitting.
- Rings Around the Sun (2013)—EHX Ring thing on parade.
- The Secondary Cause (2014, BMI)—Ring modulation finding the gap between two tonalities
- Somewhere Else Entirely (2013)—Analogues of Infinity comes to a close.
- Somewhere in the City (2014, BMI)—It took a while to find a “somewhere” title in Poe.
- Somewhere We Can Visit (2016, BMI)—.
- Thanatos at Eventide (2016, BMI)—.
- Theme (2013)—Simple and fuzzy.
- Thinking in Questions (2016, BMI)—.
- The Universe of Stars (2014, BMI)—Chord stabs, then a loop building to Floating on the Mare Tenebrarum
- Vern (2016, BMI)—.
Songs
Words and Music.
- Coffee Girl (1999)—Will sing for coffee. Every week.
- Eulogy (2004)—For those we’ve lost.
- Galatea Walks Away (1999)—In which I display my lack of knowledge about greek mythology.
- His Blonde (1999)—Just to be clear, he is a jerk.
- I Could Use You (1997)—William Wilson was a villain. Thus, not a nice song
- I Forgot Your Song (2004)—Breaking up with breakup songs.
- Memo to Steve (1999)—Quite a missive.
- Not What I Used to Be (2004)—Whatever that was.
- Sally’s Anorexic Mind (2004)—A metaphor for willful ignorance and a poor one at that.
- Tired of Bleeding (2004)—Whining about not whining.
Solo Guitar
Six strings.
- 8 Bars for Fingerpicking (2010)—A short and easy piece.
- Flight 417 (2015)—Harmonics the hard way.
- Road 17 (1998)—DADGAD, ABACAD.
SATB
Voices.
- The Bells (2013)—SATB setting of the poem by Edgar Allan Poe. A composition assignment from 2003 finished after ten years of procrastination.
Arrangements
New takes on old music.
- Simple Gifts (2013)—Noodling on a Shaker hymn for Analogues of Infinity.
Computer Music
Zeros and ones.
- Band/Fill (2012)—Exploring the reduction of dissonance through octave restriction.
- Beats (2000)—The inverse of Overtones. It would be an interesting piece for just-tuned piccolo.
- Convoluted Shapes (2014)—Wave tables, FM, and convolution. Sci-fi pads the long way round.
- Degrees of Silence (2015)—Rests accented by ambient noise levels.
- Divisions (2010)—Dissonance equals duration, sort of.
- The Finality of Points (2009)—10 years of Outis summed up in a single piece.
- Fractals (2002)—Math is fun! Feedback is fun!
- Infinite Refractions of Light (2008)—I have no idea what this title means.
- Jazz/Numbers (2006)—A computer learns to play with humans. Well, it sort of learns to solo….
- Memes (2004)—Algorithmic variation of scores. An adaptaion of the variation program for “Ghosts”.
- Overtones (1999)—60hz hum and flying faders. Fun for everyone but the engineer.
- Related Tones (2016)—Shifting between overtones and 12TET.
- Subtext (2011)—Hypermeter and phrases.
- Symmetries (2001)—Using Larry Solomon’s Q-Transform.
- Thumbprint (2007)—The Outis project returns to algorithmic composition. Mandelbrot-set based music should really be its own subgenre.
- Six Pieces in Quanta-Defined Musical Space (2013)—Pretentiously-titled collection of works that use from one to six dimensions of musical space.
Installations
Compositions in space.
- Bloom (Installation #3, May–June 2003)—Complexity unfolding from a single point.
- Burst (Installation #4, July–August 2003)—The violent sibling of Bloom.
- a distant melody heard through rain… (Installation #2, March–April 2003)—Granular synthesis and position-dependent listener experience.
- Ghosts (Installation #5, September–October 2003)—Echos of what was.
- Peace and Harmony (Installation #6, November–December 2003)—Position-dependent carols from carols.
- Simpatico (Installation #1, January–February 2003)—A melody hidden in other melodies. Cryptography meets folk music
- When We Walk (Installation #7, 2005)—Last of the installations. Space, time, and ghosts.
with Graphite Addiction
Building better Trees.
- Back of Fridge Experiment (2015)—Pete’s title.
- Ballad for My Grandmother (2015)—Tim has a really hip grandma.
- Building a Better Tree (2005)—Two tritones.
- -Call It Two Against Three (2015)—Because that’s what it is. Except for the fives.
- Chasing the Mantra (2005)—Probably Graphite’s most played tune.
- Dachshund Dementia (2015)—Poor Turbo.
- -Doctor Sus (2015)—Marc Johnson like.
- Dreams of Plastic Weasels (2005)—Tim’s title. Not sure if it’s plastic weasels doing the dreaming or if they’re the subject of others dreams.
- El Perro Amarillo (2006)—The yellow dog.
- F.O.U. (2015)—Funk on.
- Francine (2015)—It sounds like a Francine.
- Gifelte Wish (2015)—Kinda klezmer.
- Ground Groove (2015)—Not a ground it could be.
- Haley’s Comet (2015)—For someone named Haley, so a different comet than Halley’s.
- Keep It Green (2015)—Because it’s Colorado.
- Lift It On Up (2015)—Higher.
- The Meaning of Life (2015)—A good start.
- Mr. Phatpants (2006)—We used to be called Mr. Phatpants but we changed to Graphite Addiction. Mr. Phatpants was a cat.
- Number 42 (2006)—Our first recorded free improvisation. Now we have to play it.
- Peace at Last (2015)—The last tune off ASCYL.
- Quiet by the Fire (2015)—Not particularly quiet.
- That Was Nice, Too (2015)—But we liked the first one better.
- Tofu Toupee (2005)—No idea how that would work.
- Told You Once for the Second Time (2005)—Third time’s a charm.
- Triptamichigan (2015)—Pete was leaving for Michigan.
Other
What remains.
- How Long ’til We’re Forgotten (2007)—About six months.
- Paper (2014)—The score as instrument.