Music

Songs recorded thus far in reverse chronological order—all are full versions of songs in .mp3 format( 128-192 kbps). 192 kbps versions of six of the songs are available on download.com.

Miscellaneous electroacoustic songs, 2000-2005

These songs have been sitting around for quite a long time. Most (if not all) are considerably more abstract than anything else we have previously done. Most are also quite long and quite ambient. Awestricken Nomad features David Griffin on guitar and Nicholas on the computer, Paul features Paul Miller on guitar.

A warning: for songs that have vocals and a more-traditional sense of rhythm, you might try the older stuff first. Tracks 1,2, and 4 are 'patience music.' If you have patience, you may find them rewarding; else you may just get frustrated.

1. Mealybug Furthermore (11:12)
2. Awestricken Nomad (24:32)
3. Paul (1:48)
4. Ascending (19:34)
5. Housebroken (3:07)

Animals (2002-2004)

All songs on Animals have the majority of the rhythmic/ambient backdrop formed from manipulated animal sounds. In some cases, such as Birds I, Elephant, and Bats & Whale, the entire song was formed from samples of animals. Birds I (and the backdrop of Birds II) was made up entirely from the northern flicker, american coot, american kestrel, great egret, tufted timouse, and american oystercatcher. Elephant was made entirely from one elephant call. Bats & Whale was made from several bats and one whale, if that wasn't obvious enough.

1. Birds I
2. Birds II
3. Elephant
4. Insects I
5. Insects II
6. Bats and whale

Learning to breathe in a vacuum, for this oh god was a void (2001)

Each song was recorded about a month apart, in 2001. The project began as we went for a walk at 5 am. It ended with a sinking depression and the failure of a relationship.

1. Learning to breathe
2. in a vacuum, for
3. this oh god was a void

All that is solid melts into air (2000-2001)

The title of our first ep comes from Marx's use in the Communist Manifesto, “All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and men at last are forced to face with sober senses the real conditions of their lives and their relations with their fellow men.”

Recording the first ep set the precedent for how how we learned to approach music. Once a month or so we would get together on a Saturday, write a song, and record it throughout the night. Although I would sometimes toil for weeks, months, or years on the final recording of songs, within a week we would forget how to play any parts of the songs recorded previously. Instead, the songs were rendered irreproducible in any familiar form.

1. Forming functions
2. Memory #7
3. Mechanisms
4. Stellar parallax
5. He's the sickle, I'm the hammer
6. You rich and pious girl!