Programmed Hell is a series of hour-long experimental pieces, often made with rhythmic, modulation-driven patches.

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I’ve been a member of electro-music.com for many years. These are some of the projects and online shows I’ve participated in. These items are free to stream and download.

Summer Solstice online concert 2021 – download MP3
Except for the intro track, my participation in this event was to stream Robots at the Office. The intro track was composed specifically for this event.

Spring Equinox 2010 online concert – download MP3

Field recording project: Ulising – download MP3
All source sounds are field recordings of random, mostly everyday sounds. No synthesizers. No drum machines. No traditional acoustic or electronic instruments.

Field recording project: Moments in History – download MP3

Live jam with Les Hall – download MP3
In this jam, I played random patches and Les ran them through ChucK.
This was a live online collaborative performance.

Late night jam with Les Hall – download MP3

Latency jam – download MP3
Participants in this jam: Antimon, Audiodef, Blue Hell, PHOBoS, Woody Monk.
If I’m remembering this correctly, we’d each add something new to a continuous loop that cycled until we agreed to end it.

Time Drone with Jack Hertz – download MP3
Time Drone was a show hosted by Jack_Hertz, featuring ambient, slow-moving collaborations between Jack_Hertz and guests. The original blurb: “Time Drone is focused on experimenting with very long forms of live improvisation that are meant to slow or extend the listeners’ perception of time.”

Another time drone – download MP3

Chet JSmith: Drying In the Night – a narrated poem.

My old friend Chet JSmith is, among other good things, a wonderful poet. One day, he asked me if I would help him record one of his poems and put music to it. I readily agreed, and “Drying In the Night” is the result. The voice you hear is Chet himself. (Yes, his last name really is JSmith – that’s not a typo.)

Audio (WAV format)

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The night stretched long and wide,
The rain steady and cold,
The streetlights dim and foreboding,
The anger deep and bold.

One apple, if you please?

So many people, yet all so lonely.
An attache late for work,
A tourist ripe for the plucking.
A mother and daughter see me, and smirk.

A place to sleep maybe?

A street run crooked,
A river rushes by,
An old man sitting, shivering.
Billboards filled with lies.

Spare change for the needy?

A kind heart, sympathy
Just another… pity eyes
How they sit in their smug satisfaction
While another dream dies.

And day turns into night

Cold
Hatred
Silently
Calculated
Methodically

Fear
Hunger
Division
Abandonment
Disillusionment

Death

Death is welcome,
But death is not to be.
Life clings with claws.
Live was given to me.

I want to soar
High in the sky,
To look down
Above all the lies.

To swoop in
And make my kill,
To leap away
Into the nightly still.

To know what’s in a heart
Before mine is broken again.
To see the future days
And to sleep a dreamless night.

If dreams are all I have
Then dreams will all I keep.
I will not share it with you
Until you and I are in too deep.

Would you share my dream?
Help me soar above the world?
Or would you squash the dream,
And keep it for yourself?

The rain has stopped.
The moon is out.
The stars twinkle
In and out.

There, on a lamp post,
A hawk watches the night,
His wings spread to dry,
And soon he will take flight.

Me,
My dreams,
Wrapped in wings,
For soon to fly
Drying in the night.

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Chet holds the copyright to this poem, so please ask for permission to do anything other than refer people to this page.