Gryflet’s Endless Tempest
Nuno Tavares, the mastermind behind Gryflet is not a man of many words… but his music and song titles say it all. They are narrative riffs…
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Songs about your pets are usually about something much more. We project onto them, we imagine we know what they’re thinking and…
Schecter Stiletto Bass
In 1987 I had the privilege of recording with bassist Mike Cassidy on ‘Untitled no.3’ the opening track off my second release, Resonance…
Gryflet’s Left to the Unknown
We all have voices in our head. In the early 1930’s the Soviet psychologist Lev Vygotsky defined the distinction between silent…
Gryflet’s #MeToo
The #MeToo movement has been short of revolutionary, even becoming Time Magazine’s ‘Person of the Year.’ Its ripple effect has…
Oorlab: clean desk
Turn up the retro-future funk and get down and dirty… cleaning your desk! It was a blast lending some tenor and soprano sax to Oorlab’s…
see
‘See,’ is the follow up to aerochute from my bossa nova infused EP n0va. Although its dreampop atmosphere lacks that signature…
Shared Hallucinations: Gryflet’s ‘Your Head on the Pillow’
Way before there was such a thing as ‘virtual reality,’ there was music… Its mythologies connected ordinary peoples with the extraordinary…
Gryflet and the Mile High Club
Many people have fantasies about getting it on in an airplane bathroom. I’m not sure why: they’re small, brightly lit, and sometimes…
aerochute
I won’t pretend to be a historical expert on bossa nova, but where I can draw powerful parallels is that literally translated, ‘bossa nova’…
Interdependent Urbanism
Interdependent Urbanism is a architectural and urban research project by Project : Architecture. It looks toward computation as an…
cloud
Surveillance, especially of public space, is analogous to a one-way mirror: Cameras watch over you and footage is either replayed without…
A Genealogy of X performance – MMCA Seoul, Dec 3rd
Despite all the political protests in central Seoul, the show must go on! Excited to provide ambient saxophone backdrop to Choon…
roland gr-55 guitar synth
I literally had to hide my Roland GR-55 Guitar Synthesizer under the couch, safe from view. This unassuming piece of gear (it only…
X-ray of the Past and Future
In the wake of another recently broken bone (this time my foot!) I’ve been thinking again about pain and its role in our lives. It’s indeed an…
roland gk-kit gt3 pickup
Meanwhile, the GKKIT acts, again, like a magnetic pickup — because it is one — reducing extraneous signals and eschewing the piezo…
Black and White
“I’m done playing music to a bunch of white guys standing around in a room.” Being lily-white-male himself, this was quite a proclamation from…
b3nd3r
Just as houses like 16:16 haunted the music, the asbestos shingled hovel at 295 Beacon street in Somerville, Massachusetts (or as some of…
B3ND3R: starting over again
I’ve gone on about being addicted to Reverb, my drug of choice. My previous recordings and collaborations were drenched with…
bicycle ride
There’s deadlines and then there’s drop-deadlines. For this soundtrack for the award-winning firm SsD I had 5 hours to write, perform, record…
