Back in December 2007, I took some time off for the holidays to spend time in the studio. I laid down very rough vocal takes which I'm using as rehearsal guides for future recording sessions. In doing so, I had to transpose and remix a number of tracks, so I've uploaded new versions of many songs.

It's allergy season right now in Austin, so I don't anticipate doing anything else in the studio till May. (I rue the peak of oak season on April 1.) At some point, I will make some of those vocal performances available. After two years, I may have more substantial content to offer on this site!

I did take an initial stab with a limited Christmas release called Original Confidence, a compilation of what I consider the best of Eponymous 4. I sent it as my Christmas card to a select number of people, but bits and pieces of it can be found on Myspace and Facebook. I've also added that release to the projects section.

You may also want to check out my contributions to Metafilter Music. I've been reckless and posting some of these rough vocal takes there as well.

— Posted: 2008-03-08 14:42:00

Wow. Have I been on a tear ...

I've added a new single in the projects section. It's a solo performance of Terry Riley's In C, which actually requires many more than one player. And yes, I'm being clever by calling a 26-minute, one-track project a "single".

— Posted: 2007-07-19 01:13:28

I didn't realize I'd have another project up so quickly, but I spent this past weekend transcribing the rest of a string quartet I wrote before I started college. I supplemented it with the previously mentioned "Palomino" and Three Prayers in Irish Gaelic, a vocal work I wrote in my senior year of college.

This new EP is titled 「学生」 (Gakusei), which means "student" in Japanese.

— Posted: 2007-07-15 23:14:56

I've created a new album in the projects section for the most recent demos, and the title is 「健忘症」, or Kenboushou, which means "amnesia" in Japanese.

— Posted: 2007-07-08 22:38:17

A long while back, I posted a new MP3 on Metafilter Music and MySpace. It's a "reimagining" of a Duran Duran song titled "Palomino". Fans seem to like this song, but I hate it. So I took the lyrics and wrote a choir piece out of it. Did it give me new insight into the original? No, I still think it's one of Duran Duran's worst songs.

A few weeks back, I carved out some time to write some lyrics, which I promised to do before I wrote the music for the next Eponymous 4 project. I have about 16 or so lyrics, and I've already written music for six 11 12 of them. I don't have the new work listed in the projects section yet, so I'll list them here. My gimmick: use Japanese titles instead of English. Oddly enough, the music itself is leaning toward country. They're now part of the project titled 「健忘症」.

— Posted: 2007-07-04 14:08:05

I got tired of listening to the temp melody tracks, so I replaced all the files with karaoke mixes instead, i.e. the instrumental tracks. The melodies will return when I get around to recording vocals, which should take a very, very, very long time.

I also took down the lyrics. They're attracting search engine traffic unrelated to the content of this site. Why be misleading?

— Posted: 2006-12-06 21:34:11

It's official -- I've signed up for NaSoAlMo.

I'm working on a solo piano album, and I've added the tracks I've done so far in the projects section.

I have nine more minutes of music to write, and I've got two more weeks to do it. This is not the time to hit a block.

[UPDATE 11/20/2006, 8:40 a.m.] I've written those remaining nine minutes, and now I'm done!

— Posted: 2006-11-10 23:10:05

I updated the projects section to include a Creative Commons license. I'm going to start putting select Eponymous 4 files on such sites as the Podsafe Network, where I've already uploaded a track from enigmatics and my novice string quartet. Perhaps some enterprising podcaster will feature my music? HawaiiUP is already pioneering in that regard.

You may also be interested to know "The One to Make You Whole" is being used as the theme song for Austin Technology Matters, a public access TV show produced by my good friend chip. The debut show will air sometime in early November.

— Posted: 2006-10-12 22:30:58

I recorded vocals for a cover of Number Girl's "Destruction Baby" in one take and posted the result to the Eponymous 4 MySpace page. Very rough and kind of funny. We make fun when Japanese people with barely a grasp of English mangles the language. Here's a chance for Japanese people to make fun of a 外人 who can barely speak 日本語.

Also available on MySpace, as well as Metafilter Music, is a string quartet I attempted to write during that nether period after high school and before college.

— Posted: 2006-09-29 23:11:08