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Release Date: 2021Label: Demian Label & Distro!
These were pieces I wrote and had recorded in San Francisco before moving back to Los Angeles. They were originally put together as part of a pair of 'demo tapes' to use to submit to some Los Angeles venues and to return studying music at cal arts to finish my BFA degree in music composition. These were written and recorded in a transitional phase in between the end of projects as Jack's Loss, , and my years attending calarts again for music composition [california institute of the arts school of music] from 2001-2005.The Don Blanding Poem was found as a quote page inside Kenneth Anger's book _Hollywood Babylon_.
_Morty 1_ was an improvisation I originally titled as "Background piano music for public places", but in that 1999 time period of my life, transitioning going back into the music composition and academic fields, as I became more and more influenced by New York School composers like Morton Feldman, I decided to express that different cross-tendencies resonating jazz, classical, and pop as affective tonalities could be fused together in improvisation, but have this mostly influenced by Morton Feldman's styles and energies...hence I treated improvisation in Morty 1 as a composition "for improvising-pianist" due to this changing, flexible, almost plastik/shapeshifting concept, context, content, etc which is symbiotically-similar co-compositionally to Morton Feldman's [''Morty was his nickname]. I ended up composing two other Morty pieces, making the series as three improvisation compositions then, titled Morty 1, Morty 2, and Morty 3, the latter of which was actually a large group of calarts students whilst I was studying there again.