I’ll be playing two sets at what looks to be a pretty great party in LA on Saturday night.
Postscript for retro remixers and goatphiles: sample pack from Jelly Roll Morton’s “Billy Goat Stomp.”
I’ll be playing two sets at what looks to be a pretty great party in LA on Saturday night.
Postscript for retro remixers and goatphiles: sample pack from Jelly Roll Morton’s “Billy Goat Stomp.”
I plugged in the electric, hooked up Audacity, hit record, and flipped over to the same image that Marco used for his like a child piece. It’s a quickie job but what the hell that’s what blogs are for: Lucas Gonze - response to klaaankbeeld like a child (MP3)
On a musical level I was [...]
I have set up a dedicated page for my version of the song “Frog in the Well.” It is an experiment in packaging for internet music, since a bare MP3 lacks all the chrome that makes a CD an entertaining thing to open up. Design notes –
To draw you into the page and [...]
August 20, 1852, Wednesday
Page 2 of the New York Times, 695 words
Mr. ORVILLE HATCH, of Franklin, Conn., has become insane, he having devoted considerable attention to the subject of Spirit Rappings. Mr. HATCH is a farmer, and has been instrumental in introducing many important improvements in agriculture into the town in which he resides.
Madame Pamita, [...]
This post is a recording of a fast and furious guitar performance of a fiddle tune called “Kiss My Lady” which was transcribed in 1800 (or so) by a ship’s musician named William Litten.
Musically I wanted something energetic and raw. I didn’t care about mistakes except if they were bad enough to really [...]
This post is a recording of the composition Ella Waltz by D.E. Jannon, which was published in 1854.
MP3: Lucas Gonze — Ella Waltz
Ogg Vorbis: Lucas Gonze — Ella Waltz
It is the third of a set of three waltzes by D.E. Jannon. I have also blogged recordings of Amy Waltz and Carrie Waltz. I [...]
This post is a short, jittery, very loose, and slightly overdriven acoustic guitar version of a tune called “Anna Waltz” which was composed by a guy named D.E. Jannon and published in 1854. I learned it from sheet music at the Library of Congress web site.
MP3: Lucas Gonze — Amy Waltz (1:36)
This recording is [...]
This post is one of my acoustic guitar recordings. It is a tune called “Carrie Waltz” which was composed by a guy named D.E. Jannon and published in 1854. I learned it from sheet music at the Library of Congress web site.
Lucas Gonze — Carrie Waltz
I’m only publishing an MP3, not an [...]
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This is an experiment I’m doing with Jay Dedman. He made the video, I made the music.
Jay Dedman hooked up my 2 spirit of gods music with his crazy arms videoblog entry. In the posting that started the thread, he had a licensing problem with music:
After posting my video today for Videoblogging [...]
This is two guitar instrumental versions of the Mormon hymn “Spirit of God.” Neither has much of a godly spirit to it. I like them for the phrasing.
For more information on this hymn see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spirit_of_God_Like_a_Fire_Is_Burning. I learned the tune from sheet music at Mutopia. I blogged a previous version of [...]