Noel's Sketchpad

A new podcast, a new toy, a new hope!

A return to form, with the windy and the blurry and the turning and the...

So, I did some drum loop programming...

Back in the Saddle with an archival track and a maddening tuning!

Synthesizers and E-Bows and fretless guitars, oh my! Also: a short attention-span hop around my music collection!

In which Noel goes acoustic, does a false start, and talks about the silly tuning he uses.

In which Noel can't speak, Noel can't tune a guitar, and Noel listens to some freaky-ass music!

Back after beacoup technical difficulties, the sketchpad returns with some more archival material, and another Just Plain Big show!

I go back to the before-time for something a little bit different, and play some of the Just Plain Big show.

Gig announcement: Just Plain Big @ Tiki Bar, Costa Mesa, January 15. Ripple: the last abstract loop piece for a while. A wee bit 'o the Captain, R.I.P.

Kind of a dream. Everything keeps changing around the edges, and the ego comes and goes. There's some disturbing sights, but you don't really want to wake up.

NOW we separate the men from the boys. Real-time improvisation with guitar and Ableton Live as a looping device. If you lost your guitar noise, you might want to check here - it could have gotten mixed with mine.

A wee bit of a dance number. Very wee.

I rip off Henry Kaisar's ripoff of Derek Bailey by talking about the show while playing random acoustic gibberish, then turn it over to a long dual-improvisation titled 'Achilles & Tortoise'