See See Rider – The Pleasures Programmes Live at the Theatre for the New City
June 7, 2014Reprising the show we did a couple of years back, a “leaner” Pleasure Programmes, consisting of Elizabeth Soychak and myself, play a couple of tunes at the Theatre for the New City as part of the Lower East Side Festival on May 23rd. We did a couple of tunes in a packed programme of different…
Corcovado – The Pleasure Programmes Live at the Theatre For the New City
June 7, 2014Reprising the show we did a couple of years back, a “leaner” Pleasure Programmes, consisting of Elizabeth Soychak and myself, play a couple of tunes at the Theatre for the New City as part of the Lower East Side Festival on May 23rd. We did a couple of tunes in a packed programme of different…
The Pleasure Programmes at the Theatre for the New City
June 14, 2012I’ve been jamming jazz standards with some good friends, Elizabeth Soychak, Sam Coley and Matt Winch, with our tongue-in-cheek band name “The Pleasure Programmes” (named after a cheesy title from a fake book of “suggested collections” of music). We recently had the opportunity to perform at the Theatre for the New City in the East…
Yèkèrmo Sèw
February 7, 2011I had the wonderful opportunity to work with some really talented and funny guys while at IRCAM. One outcome of this was some jamming and recording in a small jazz group with Juan Jose Burred, Gilles Degottex and Pierre Lanchantin. Here is our recording of Yèkèrmo Sèw, a piece written by the Ethiopian composer Mulatu…
Minuet in E major duet
December 14, 2009A Minuet in E major recorded as a double tracked duet by the Baroque composer Adam Falckenhagen.
Sax Oud Duo
November 22, 2009I had the wonderful opportunity to jam with Martha Sparks, an excellent alto saxophonist from Melbourne at my apartment in NYC, early 2001. This is an improvisation between Martha and me on sax and oud (Arabic lute) respectively.
Ellipiticalis Kemahl (Still Waiting)
May 26, 2009(c. 1994 1:09) Some off-centre turntablism in collaboration with Aaran Lodge.
Madal Solo
May 25, 2009(c. 1997, 4:07) A performance on a Nepalese Madal, a double ended drum somewhere between a South Indian Mridangam and a North Indian bayan tabla.
3:00am
May 25, 2009This was the result of picking up a cheap cast off electric guitar at an auction. I experimented with preparing the guitar by inserting screwdrivers, pens and nail files between the strings. This adapts a technique devised by John Cage to turn the piano into a percussion orchestra. Preparing the strings selected a range of…