Tripecac - South or Southeast (1997-1999)

  1. CopyRite [3:53] 1997-10-11 - 1997-10-11
  2. Dinner Table [1:54] 1997-10-11 - 1997-10-11
  3. Neumania [3:03] 1997-10-11 - 1997-10-11
  4. We're Being Watched [0:06] 1997-10-11 - 1997-10-11
  5. Memory Hog [0:53] 1997-10-19 - 1997-10-19
  6. South or Southeast [3:51] 1997-10-19 - 1997-10-19
  7. The Ups... [2:11] 1997-11-08 - 1997-11-08
  8. ...And Downs... [2:39] 1997-11-08 - 1997-11-08
  9. ...Of Living Alone [1:36] 1997-11-08 - 1997-11-08
  10. Krautrock Parody [3:06] 1997-12-15 - 1997-12-15
  11. Moody Xmas [7:26] 1997-12-24 - 1997-12-24
  12. Appy Ew Ear [2:16] 1998-01-01 - 1998-01-01
  13. Reverse 2 [0:26] 1997-10-11 - 1997-10-11
  14. My Everything [3:57] 1998-05-13 - 1998-05-13
  15. June Morning [4:31] 1998-06-13 - 1998-06-13
  16. June Evening [4:01] 1998-06-30 - 1998-06-30
  17. Experimental Harvest [1:11] 1999-01-01 - 1999-01-01
  18. Feeling Sharp [3:23] 1999-03-27 - 1999-03-27
  19. Re-Rite [1:07] 1997-10-11 - 1997-10-11
  20. Okay Track One [0:05] 199?-??-?? - 199?-??-??
  21. Chimera (early) [3:00] 1990-0?-?? - 1990-0?-??
  22. Funky Snippet [0:36] 199?-??-?? - 199?-??-??
  23. Travis and Jon (early) [0:58] 199?-??-?? - 199?-??-??
  24. Testing the Cup (early) [1:10] 199?-??-?? - 199?-??-??
  25. Heavy Reggae [0:38] 199?-??-?? - 199?-??-??
  26. Spacy Funk [0:38] 199?-??-?? - 199?-??-??
  27. Bad Sync Dance [1:03] 199?-??-?? - 199?-??-??
  28. Synth and Drums [0:32] 199?-??-?? - 199?-??-??
  29. Interview [3:18] 1994-01-?? - 1994-01-??
  30. Sleeping Gas (1) [4:47] 1994-12-12 - 1994-12-12
  31. Sleeping Gas (2) [4:31] 1994-12-13 - 1994-12-13
  32. California Greetings (full) [2:52] 1997-04-19 - 1997-04-19
  33. Letter to Beth [0:22] 1997-04-19 - 1997-04-19
  34. I Am Not Funny [3:18] 1997-04-19 - 1997-04-19
  35. Bored Echo [0:11] 199?-??-?? - 199?-??-??

Shortly after finishing Where's My Muse?, I left my job and went travelling in the Pacific Northwest. I loved it (particularly Alaska and Bellingham), and wanted to move there ASAP. Unfortunately, I'd already enrolled in graduate school back in Charlottesville.

Back in grad school, I hardly ever touched my keyboard. Maybe once a month, I'd sit down with the SY55 and start working a song; but then I'd get invited to dinner by friends or family, and I'd forget all about the song. Gradually, I filled up the SY55 with little ideas. To make room for still more (never-to-be-finished) ideas, I'd periodically dump the incomplete song snippets onto my four-track, and then delete their data from the keyboard. Those "songs" became South or Southeast (tracks 1-19).

The remaining tracks are miscellaneous scraps from 1990-1997.

I used a Yamaha SY55 keyboard workstation for most of the music, occasionally adding a Roland TR-505 drum machine or an acoustic guitar. I recorded to a four-track and used a cheap reverb box (perhaps too frequently!). I mastered to cassette using a tape deck. For the CD, I recorded to my PC using a SoundBlaster Live, and used Cool Edit for noise reduction, amplitude normalization, fades, and all other editing.

Guest Voices: Jon Hill, Miro Kresonja, and Dale Newfield on "June Morning" and "June Evening"; Beth Ogura on "Interview".

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