"Drunk As A Skunk (Acoustic)" was composed on the computer taking a source tape and subjecting it to a lot of computer jig-pokery!
"I Love Rock & Roll, Baby" is just a practice for a New Music Circle concert "Fifty (Or More)" featuring electronic musician Tom Hamilton. I joined Tom for one of the seven segments. I played guitar and Tom manipulated, in real time, 50 sound clips originated by the various musicians who have performed as part of the New Music Circle during NMC's first 50 years. For this recording, I was playing along live to a compact disc of an example of the continuous electronic sound that Tom played at the concert.
"Irk Bee Delay," a track from my musical homage to Derek Bailey [ANAGRAMS, 2007, Echolocation Recordings] has been included on a massive net-only compilation recently released on Clinical Archives. Excerpts from a review from Free Albums Galore follow:
One of the most exciting net labels to show up recently is Clinical Archives. There is a huge amount of music on this label which is described as the "independent netlabel for eclectic and illogical music". Their release Clinical Jazz may be of some help in defining the music of this label but it may not be too helpful because the anthology album itself is so huge! It has over 10 hours of music and is the equivalent of 9 CDs. Once you get past the size of this collection, you will find an exceptionally consistent quality of music that is either in the jazz genre or outside the genre of jazz but beholden to the the influence of this improvisatory music. Not everything here fits my definition of jazz but that is not the point. Clinical Archives is about expanding the definition of music and that is certainly the intent in these 94 tracks from all over the globe.There ’s just too much to go through on each CD but the variety of music as well as the high quality of the artists is extremely impressive. [...] Much of CD 5 is also avant-garde improvisation but sounding more post classical than jazz. Check out guitarist Tony Renner’s "Irk Bee Delay" which is a nice Derek Bailey styled improv.
You can download the entire compilation or listen to selected tracks here .
T. Renner, "Improvisations for Derek Bailey 5," 2008, acrylic on coated card stock, 7" x 5".
