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The fourth MezzoMese. For the fourth installment of the MezzoMese series, I offer a three piece EP of vocal and electronic music. The title is sovratono , which is a play-on-words translation of 'overtone' in Italian. It was recorded between September and October, 2022, and is a byproduct of learning how to overtone sing. [Caption:  Album artwork for sovratono .] Simply defined, overtone singing is the practice of manipulating the vocal tract in such a way as to produce ext

The third Mezzomese . For the third installment of the MezzoMese series, I offer a sequel to a previous album, postludes . This new album is titled postludes II . It was recorded in September, 2022 shortly after the first postludes album. There is not much to say (or write) about the process, other than that it was composed piece-by-piece, and titled as postludes because each one came at the end of something. That is, after a session of recording or of studio practice, wha

The second MezzoMese . For the second installment of the MezzoMese series, I have two short musical offerings, which date back over a decade. They both illustrate a burgeoning, yet fully established creative process, utilizing the simple tools available to me at that time: electric guitar (among other instruments), tape recorder, digital voice recorder, and Audacity as a Digital Audio Workstation. The electric guitar I had used at the time was either a heavily-modified Squie

A musical offering. While the winter wanders ever-forward towards Springtime, and the daily-growing sun begins to melt recent heavy snowfall, I find myself nesting in the studio. As part of February's RPM Challenge , I spent the month building a proverbial nest out of various sonic bits and pieces found on old hard-drives and dusty cassette tapes. In short: rooting through my personal archives for unfinished and unreleased work. And to say it was a trove would be a small unde

Constructing instruments, constructing music. When one arrives in Scapoli for the International Zampogna Festival, one must park ones car...

[Caption: " Once there was a little boy. And he went outside." --Harry Partch. ] The poetry of the mountains. Two short poems I wrote...

(and there are still snails) ...As I embark on my summer travels-- una vacanza di lavoro ('a working vacation') I explained to my friend...

Mountain music . As soon as we opened the car doors, we were engulfed by the smell of wild mint. We were setting out for a long trek in...

[Caption: Moonrise in Molise .] There are no clocks at the Museum . Time is not a valid currency here. Unlike the places most of us come...

After spending two weeks as an artist-in-residence at the Art Center Padula, I made my way to London, England for a brief interlude to...

I tiptoed gingerly around the garden, taking care to dodge the fallen figs from the tree outside the kitchen. Every couple of steps I...

A couple days of rain brought the temperature down a little to where it was comfortable to be out and about, moving around the town...

After departing from Battipaglia on the afternoon bus, and an hour or two driving through the Campanian countryside, in and out of...

Another adventure continues. [After eight months of neglecting this blog, I finally have the time and space--mentally, emotionally, and...

A short poem about waves or phantasms: ~~~ Dear Kind Reader, Today I turn thirty-four years old. In the English language the verb to turn...

Clay under feet. (And between toes). The site of Lago di Castel San Vincenzo (Lake of Castle Saint Vincent) is an enchanting one: the...

The sounds of the stones. In an effort to hear what the many hours of tracing and puzzling would glean, without the presence of actual...

More stones. More notes. While thinking about the time I spent at Pietrabbondante, staring at the stones found in the walls there, I...

Losing and renewing. The main purpose of my being in Italy is to be in residence at the Museum of Loss and Renewal in a little place...

Lots of rocks. Well, an abundance of. Pietra meaning rock or stone, and abbondante meaning abundance. Italian is quite a melodious...