“Altostratus” is a three-voice hand-triggered modular synthesizer piece featuring long-held notes that could be thought to resemble altostratus undulatus clouds. The synthesizer is tuned with just intonation.

The 2022 Unthunk album Elliptic is based on the celestial mechanics concept of orbital resonance, which is the phenomenon wherein the orbits of bodies such as planets and moons may be synchronized, due to the gravitational forces among them. The…

A minor bout to flex the limbs.

Despite its irregularity, the riff durably persisted though several efforts to assimilate into an ensemble piece. Here’s an early draft: an overture.

Your chronic discontent: A painful goad Is lodged bone-deep. An ancient rasping shrapnel grates: The biologic spur. All urgency assuaged: The family fed Beneath safe roof. A smooth and easy groove inworn, Yoked to your duty’s course But somehow still…

With languid eyes, reclined on her divan, Smoke coiling slow off of her cigarette, She reaches up, behind, to flick The dangling ash Like patient swish of feline tail, In ambush crouched. The sultry night imbues her lush boudoir. Serrated…

There was an Iranian hermit that not washed for over 50 years, and instead cleansed himself with a fire bath. At age 94, he was finally persuaded to use soap and water, and died shortly thereafter. You’ve got that wriggling…

The child on a swing Flung backwards and pumping Tiny toes stretching For buds in the trees Nothing exists but whoosh rushing wind, and Gravity’s pull and the creak of the chain Urge high and higher “Now push me again!”…

Earth and Venus have a nearly synchronized orbit. For every eight Earth years, Venus orbits almost exactly 13 times. The slight drift between them takes 239.8 years to rotate the resonance shape by 1/5 of the circle (which is 30x…

Here, the 1:4:12 relationship among Earth, the Alinda asteroid(s) and Jupiter are captured in a solo synthesizer sequence.