Once upon a time there were two mice. Despite their size, they imagined a world where they could do whatever they wished – where all other forces submitted to their designs. They had this dream quite frequently – essentially, every night.

Featuring metronome and saxophone quartet – baritone, alto, tenor, and soprano.

“This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.”

So it goes.

So *something* goes. For now – until it becomes something else. Yet, still – the same.

Featuring bass clarinet, and breathing.

Periodically, things happen. The specifics depend upon whom they are happening to. Regardless, it can be understood as the union of two sets – that which is expected, and that which is not.

The expected is best met with preparation – practice makes perfect, when a thing can be practiced.

The unexpected requires something else – it asks of us a certain height. To achieve what we can, and to go beyond it, even – especially – imperfectly.

Featuring clarinet.

A baffle makes all the difference. If baffled, consider – shifted. Though much remains similar, a new perspective offers altered wavelengths.

Featuring overdubbed tenor saxophone.

Hung – over.
…
Perchance, to dream,
with visions of a better.
A better?

Sometimes, stopping is
good –
a suspension of maladaptive behavior.

Sometimes, stopping is.

Featuring clarinet.

A physical device, with keys pushing hammers via levers, was utilized. The relative position and velocity of the hammers was measured via optical sensors, digitally recorded, and wirelessly transmitted. These numerical records were reconstituted via software and samples of previously recorded audio – more numbers.

You are most likely hearing the result after it has been stored and transmitted several more times, and used to trigger very particular vibrations of air molecules via whatever digital audio hardware you have available. Finally, your ear receives those vibrations and converts it back into electrical signals, which are interpreted by your brain in a process that is still largely inscrutable.

You imagine the experience as acoustic, an organic occurrence of natural sound. But the organic experience only happened once, and we are left with this artifact – a very particular arrangement of bytes.

Featuring improvised piano, mediated via many bytes.

Know your audience, know yourself. Introspect, or obsess – a strange loop come unfurled. A journey, a place, a time to face. Now gnawingly, no notes know – yet.

Featuring improvised clarinet.

Ten years ago – another time. Simpler? Not really. Earlier, and with different players playing a different game. A new player at the time – Jazzaria – now marking its first decennial. May it see decades to come.

Featuring improvised clarinet.