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I Really Didn't Mean It!
The Revellaires
When I wrote this a long time ago, I was trying to go for a Buck Owens meets the Rolling Stones, circa 1965 kind of thing....

Leon
sPlatterKep
...i wanted to write something that sounds like what Blade Runner looks like....I composed it, played everything but drums and cello.

Mailbox
Casey's Brain
A pretty waltz written in a moment of bleakness....I can't read or write a note of music but still composed & arranged the string quartet....

in cog neat-o
sPlatterKep
More music for motion....snakes slither for miles in the great southwest....I composed this, played everything but drums and cello.....

...the lady vanishes
down with meyers
In retrospect, this snippet of a bigger piece was influenced a lot by the Stone Temple Pilots...performed by Down With Meyers

pasta la vista
sPlatterKep
...Amelia Earhardt emerges from the Spanish desert as a banshee...i composed and recorded this in one sitting, playing everything except drums.

dogHeaven
sPlatterKep
A black humor'd take on Clinton's impeachment trial, w/a midEast groove & Stalinist show trial overtones...I play everything except drums (John Orem).

Mary What's-Her-Name
sPlatterKep
This was written for my mom, on Mother's Day...it's in 3/4, 4/4 and 5/4, it's pretty overall (like her), & brash and loud in places, like me....

Resolution No. 1
...hints of Salvador Dali and Man Ray, Edward Hopper...maybe some MC Escher too....listen closely to the soundscape....all the water, wind & bird sounds are radio signals....

The Grand Old Flag
Happy Fourth of July!....Please enjoy this clip on the proper care and nurturing of the US flag, in time-lapse...

Resolution #78 (Ephemera)
Have you read "Homer & Langley" by EL Doctorow?....This is a rumination on the ruination of modern popCulture, unPlanned and backwards...

Her Inner Self (Revealed)
Picture a person you utterly despise. That person is the subject of this piece. This is a "making of" -type video of a decoupage piece in my studio....

you believe in what you do?!
...scenes from a war protest here in Washington...just tried to reproduce the moment...

MEDEA
...shadowplay and reflections on regret, filmed during a storm and resulting power outage

Nothing Is Mundane
Spontaneous securityCam infraRred timeLapse of frontPorch so-called 'mundanities' - all imagery, no video....