This comes from 2 combined livestreams, each of which was abbreviated due in part to user error on my part for failing to record parts, and because I sang in some of the songs and have decided to exclude those pieces. The pieces are from Youtub

Episode 65 Post Eclipse

May 20th, 2024 54m 20s

This episode comes from the youtube stream on April 11th 2024, just a couple of days after I drove 10 hours to experience the totality of the eclipse, which was an amazing experience. I have skipped forward a number of months because of the exp

Episode 63 Sometimes

Apr 26th, 2024 53m 30s

This episode comes form the youtube stream on December 12 2023, the last one of the year. The title comes from the closing song Toki Doki, and is the english meaning of the Japanese phrase. Things start off with a nice expansive mid tempo piec

Episode 61 Post Turkey Day

Apr 12th, 2024 48m 14s

This episode comes from the Youtube livestream on November 28th, right after the Thanksgiving holiday. It takes me a little while to find the groove, but I eventually get there, with some washy bowing rhythms making things sleepy and sweeping.

Episode 59 Meditative Moods

Mar 22nd, 2024 37m 55s

This episode comes from the youtube livestream on November 16 2023. Things get off to a very nice mellow start, growing into an expansive descending river of bowed lines. The next piece grows out of a quicker paced back and forth arpeggio, evol

Episode 57

Mar 15th, 2024 50m 3s

This episode comes from the youtube stream on November 9 2023. Things get off to a flow-ey and somewhat dreaming start, with a shimmery loop that develops some nice bowed layers. The second piece develops with more drive, and continues in a dre

Episode 55 Feeling Froggy

Mar 7th, 2024 36m 47s

Things get off to a vibey start in this episode from the youtube livestream on October 26 2023, incorporating the whistling effect quite early, which I enjoy using because the treble register it provides pops out so much. The second piece devel

Episode 53 Crushing It

Feb 21st, 2024 53m 56s

This episode comes from the youtube livestream on October 24 2023. Things get off to a nice airy start, built around a repeating arpeggio that has an 80’s movie interlude feel to it. The next piece develops into a broader sweeping journey that

Episode 51 Hectic Recharge

Feb 2nd, 2024 51m

Episode 50 Thousandaire

Jan 11th, 2024 49m 21s

This episode from October 3 2023 starts off with a nice melancholy driving rhythm. The second piece has a similarly melancholy drive to it. It’s hard to describe what feeling this evokes exactly, something between determination and acceptance,

Episode 47 Autumnal Colors

Dec 12th, 2023 55m 53s

This episode comes from the youtube stream on September 26, 2023. I love the liveliness of how things start out here, with an upbeat fast paced pizzicato ramble through some autumnal colored chords. The second piece gets groovier, keeping up th

Episode 45 Fall Equinox

Nov 16th, 2023 51m 11s

This episode comes from the Youtube stream on September 18 2023. Things get off to a nice medium pace with a bit of a jazzy chord sound, that quickly takes on some nice autumnal colors with the bowed layers. Growing up in Vermont the foliage se

Episode 43 Keeping Up the Pace

Nov 7th, 2023 47m 2s

Episode 43Things get off to a bit of a rocky start, with the first two pieces not quite locking in. But I finally find something in the third piece (which starts about 13 minutes in). The fourth piece is my favorite, with a nice groove and shim

Episode 41 Not too Laborious

Nov 2nd, 2023 53m 13s

This episode comes from the Youtube stream on September 5 2023. Things get off to a mellow start, with a thoughtful and meandering pizzicato loop, which allows for some arco expansion and contraction, venturing into the melancholy at times. The

Episode 39 Playing Catch Up

Oct 17th, 2023 47m 35s

This episode comes from the youtube stream on August 29 2023, things start off pretty mellow, with a meandering exploration. To be honest when I first started listening back to the second piece I wasn’t sure where it was going, or if it would

Episode 37 We call that Jazz

Oct 12th, 2023 46m 10s

The first piece takes a little while to develop, but becomes a nice expansive piece with some nice contemplative elements to it. The next piece I find in the revised second half, after redoing some of the chords I find a more natural feeling gr

Episode 35 Summer Rain

Oct 5th, 2023 57m 53s

This episode comes from the live Youtube stream on August 15 2023. If you’d like to get all episodes and some advanced EP’s, please consider supporting me directly by becoming a bandcamp subscriber. Things get started with a lively piece built

Episode 33 Up and Airy

Sep 22nd, 2023 52m 28s

This episode comes from the youtube stream on August 8, 2023. Things get off to a nice atmospheric start, with some sweeping pizzicato lines that shift and sway. It’s fun to find an arpeggio that works over the chord changes, and build from the

Episode 31 Farmhouse Summer

Sep 5th, 2023 59m 31s

This episode comes from the stream on August 1 2023. The summer has been so hot, this piece kind of has a bouncy summer feel to it. The heavy bowed layers kind of add to the headiness of things, but then things open up nicely in the second half

Episode 29 A to Z

Aug 24th, 2023 33m 8s

This episode comes from the Youtube stream on July 25th, and follows a string of technical difficulties that I couldn’t seem to shake. What would have been the previous episode clipped to the point where it was unsalvageable, and during this ep

Episode 27 Frisson

Aug 9th, 2023 53m 18s

This episode comes from the twitch stream on July 13, 2023. To access all episodes please consider subscribing on my bandcamp page, where all episodes are available in high quality downloadable format. For this stream I was able to sort out mos

Episode 25 Eight Minutos

Aug 2nd, 2023 58m 33s

This episode comes from the Twitch stream on July 6 2023. The idea behind this stream was to limit myself to (relatively) shorter jams, with a target length of 8-9 minutes, instead of the more usual 12 minutes. The first piece takes a little wh

Episode 23 Running Away

Jul 13th, 2023 51m 4s

Episode 23 Running AwayThis episode comes from the twitch stream on June 22, 2023. I deliberately decided to start things off a bit slower in this stream, trying to get back to the mellow cello namesake. I really like how things start here, wit

Episode 21 Meta Cello

Jun 29th, 2023 58m 14s

Things get started off with a fun driving beat that develops into a bowed line that feels like it’s racing ahead to me, on its way to somewhere. I’m starting to feel like I’m almost as comfortable rhythmically with the bow as I am pizzicato, wh

Episode 19 Dark Bowings

Jun 19th, 2023 49m 6s

This episode comes from the Twitch stream on June 8th after I was away on a break, and I can hear myself getting back into the swing of things when I listen back. Things start off with a piece that develops into a bit of a jaunty theme, built a