We’re turning on the cameras tonight for our recording session. You should be able to tune in on our livestream channel. Broadcast start time is approximate, so follow @vybeauregard for instant updates.

Every month, the Oklahoma Composers Association puts on a concert featuring works from three area composers and an opportunity to talk with each composer about their work. I am recording these concerts and hosting them at http://oca.vybeauregard.net/.

Current features of the OCA subsite include:

• Program information
• Live streaming playlists
• mp3 (192kbps) and lossless FLAC downloads
• Podcast feed

It’s a great opportunity to hear new music and some insight behind these works’ creation, so check it out. And if you’re in the area, come to the next salon concert.

The Demons of Gyrophonia have been rather productive in the past few months, spitting out handfuls of tracks each week. Not all will be posted here, but once a week, we’ll pick a good one and throw it on MetaFilter Music.

As an added benefit, all the MeFiMu tracks are funneled into this handy podcast.

So for best results, add that feed to your podcaster/feed aggregator. Then you’ll have some delicious new noise to digest each week without the fuss of trying to remember how to spell ‘Gyrophonia’.

In the meantime, we’ve got more recording to do if that extended box-set retrospective is going to hit shelves before Thanksgiving.

The final version of our album, Jersey has been uploaded to our RPM page. It is 16 tracks and 59 minutes long, exploring the themes of Expression of Emotions, Chess, The Underworld, and Failure. Enjoy, everyone!

• Expression of Emotions: there are eight 30-second sketches interspersed between the other tracks, each exploring a different emotion.
• Chess: Each Man vs Blue movement represents a single match between Garry Kasparov and IBM’s Chess-playing supercomputer Deep Blue.
• The Underworld: A Pomegranate in the Underworld and Arcana Major explore these themes with a prayer and a deck of Tarot cards.
• Failure. New Jersey and Drew Carey are both failures in their respective fields. And that’s just sad.

The Demons of Gyrophonia are participating in the Record Production Month challenge (basically we get 28 days to write, perform, record and ship an album of 10 tracks or 35 minutes).
There’s a blog at http://music.vybeauregard.net/gyrophonia/rpm2009/ where we’ll be posting updates, along with recordings made during this event.

Three fresh tracks up today in Gyrophonia. An improv, performed with special guest Jesse Harlin, entitled Ballad of the Moose-billed Platypi, and re-recordings of ERS and I’m the Scapegoat (But I Don’t Eat Garbage). Enjoy!

Added three tracks to the Demons of Gyrophonia playlist:

1. Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On), a reimagining of a Talking Heads song
2. Shadows of Tomorrow, an adaptation of a poem by Sun Ra
3. Under Close Scrutiny, improvised with some Zappa influence

Enjoy!

Here’s one more recording I made during the Oktava mic test session last weekend. This one is a straight improvisation on piano.

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More recordings from the initial test session of my Oktava microphones. This time, I’m playing Chopin’s Prelude No 4 (Op. 28).

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Some people wonder if it hurts to be this stupid.  It does, but after awhile, you get used to it.

Dad used to sing this when we were getting ready to load up the car to go to church on Sunday morning.  The lyrics were usually proven correct.

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