05.02.09
Leading the Bleeding

Awake at night / somebody’s screaming
Awake at night / somebody’s screaming

The devil’s voice / rapping the window
The shepherd’s walk / leading the bleeding
For all to gaze / up at the skylight…up at the skylight

(This is best listened to with headphones)
(Please ignore obligatory breath before playing…)

Enjoy.
-Robby

This post is a continuation of an ongoing project. See this post for more information.

04.23.09
The third audio piece in my investigation of the first Chapter. A sort of meditative midsleep movement.

Note: There is no sampling in this piece - all the audio is done live straight through.

(This is best listened to with headphones).

Enjoy.
-Robby

This post is a continuation of an ongoing project. See this post for more information.

04.07.09
This third entry finds me in a better mood. I have ditched the computer in favor of a slightly antiquated recording method, one which makes me much happier. I hope you enjoy this sample. I will only reference the following quote from the novel once again “…the stone like a lump of fat…”

Thanks for listening.
-Robby

This post is a continuation of an ongoing project. See this post for more information.

03.24.09
It is odd that it has been exactly one month since my last post. I have been slow, drudging. I sit and stare at a book I do not comprehend. I have re-read the first chapter twelve times (don’t applaud: it’s only two pages). I receive brief intervals of understanding that become lost with the next sentence. It is fitting, reading a passage from the perspective of a narrator who is trying desperately to hold onto an idea, but failing until eventually falling asleep…

Anger? Anger because I have been trying to setup some means to record on my new laptop, and failing at every corner. This post could just as well have been called that, “Failure.” I succeed on small levels: scribbling notes and a half-cocked drawing:

I create my own code to try and break through the language of the chapter, but only succeed in creating new mysteries.

It stands to reason that a book filled with so much despair, loneliness, and desolation would only lead the reader down the same path. However, I am often wrong about things, and maybe I am wrong about even the mood of this chapter. It is a search for meaning.

And I am desperately trying to find meaning. In life. In music. In writing.

I would very much like to escape through some electronic tones, mixing and matching, destroying sounds and rebuilding new ones. My hands reach out. And they are slapped back.

I have had these headphones for more than ten years. I want to use them.

This post is a continuation of an ongoing project. See this post for more information.

02.24.09
I am beginning a new music project using Gustav Meyrink’s The Golem as source material. I will be posting sound clips, journal segments, and other multimedia for your enjoyment on a (hopefully) weekly basis.

Below is my first entry.
-Robby

“…the stone like a lump of fat…”

Some notes. “Sleep” is a very short chapter, but carries a great deal of weight on its own.

Oh, yes, even including rudimentary drawings as further evidence of why my AP high school art credits never got me anywhere…

07.13.08
A little song I wrote, dedicated to the Lady. Recorded in 2006. Note the antique pump organ which has since left the family due to space constraints.

06.02.08
I wrote an article published on the Chicago Artists Resource website. Click the picture below to check it out!

05.27.08
This is a song I recorded in 2005. It is still one of my favorites:

04.30.08
This is a cover of a Gillian Welch song I recorded live two years ago. I love this song:

04.27.08
The new record is now available on iTunes.