The Painful Leg Injuries Podcasts

Series 8 Static To Noise Part 1 The Hanging
First in a series of compositions of music generated from translating my visual art into music.

Series 8 Static To Noise Part 2 The Depths
Second composition in this series.

Series 8 Static To Noise Part 3 The Growth
Third composition in this series.

Series 8 Static To Noise Part 4 The Weather
Fourth composition in this series.

Series 8 Static To Noise Part 5 The Delights
Fifth composition in this series.

Series 8 Static To Noise Part 6 The Flowering
Sixth composition in this series.

Series 9 Rhythm Nation Part 1 IAEA
"Maybe there will be some birds left..."

Series 9 Rhythm Nation Part 2 H5N1
"...perhaps the birds are the problem..."

Series 9 Rhythm Nation Part 3 UAE
"...because you'd never consider having the cock guard the henhouse..."

Series 9 Rhythm Nation Part 4 NSA
"...an especially untrustworthy one at that..."

Series 9 Rhythm Nation Part 5 FEMA
"...when there's no one in any rush to come save the day when the refrigerators end up in the trees."

Series 10 Improvised Sensorlab 1
Improvised pieces using homemade oscillators. No overdubs.

Series 10 Improvised Sensorlab 2

Series 10 Improvised Sensorlab 3

Series 10 Improvised Sensorlab 4

Series 10 Improvised Sensorlab 5

Series 10 Improvised Sensorlab 6

Series 10 Improvised Sensorlab 7

Series 11 Central Park, May 6th 2006, Pet Adoption Fair (For Crindy)
Episode 42 - Series 11 - 1 of 6 - Return To The Four Chambers - Recordings of street musicians, collaged together. For this episode all of the base material was recorded on May 6th at the Central Park Pet Adoption Fair, for Crindy.

Series 11 It Takes Six Strings To Laugh Again
Episode 43 - Series 11 - 2 of 6 - Return To The Four Chambers - Recordings of street musicians, collaged together. For this episode I recorded singers and guitar, some who do both.

Series 11 That Frightening Moment When The Sleeping Giant Wakes Up
Episode 44 - Series 11 - 3 of 6 - Return To The Four Chambers - Recordings of street musicians, collaged together. For this episode I recorded a small, slight man, playing a traditional chinese lute at the 34th Street station, F platform, downtown.

Series 11 The Bill Byrne Elevenbilliontet
Episode 45 - Series 11 - 4 of 6 - Return To The Four Chambers - Recordings of street musicians, collaged together. For this episode I collected many field recordings I had of those lonely New York street corner hornsmen. Sax players mostly.

Series 11 Above Us Only Sky
Episode 46 - Series 11 - 5 of 6 - Return To The Four Chambers - Recordings of street musicians, collaged together. A man plays a popular song on a musical saw in the subway station at Astor Place.

Series 11 Me As An Old Man In Palermo Sipping On Espresso Watching the Children Play
Episode 47 - Series 11 - 6 of 6 - Return To The Four Chambers - Recordings of street musicians, collaged together - My dream for retirement has been to be one of those old Italian men who sit at a cafe all day commenting on how beautiful the world is.

Series 12 The Quick
Episode 48 - Episode 48 - Series 12 - 1 of 6 - Chickens Scratching - A series of compositions where the source material are waveforms handwritten in cursive.

Series 12 Brown Fox
Series 12 Jumped
Series 12 Over
Series 12 The Lazy
Series 12 Dogs

Series 13 - Perilous Behavior - A series of compositions where the source material photos of people doing dangerous things as the basis for a compostion designer to force the composer to take more creative risks.

Episode 54 Series 13 Increasing Probability Of Inprobable Outcomes
Dedicated to a TV personality who recently died taking a risk, as he normally did, to do what he loved, jumping on top of dangerous animals. However, Steve Irwin was undone not by a croc or a snake, but, a rare attack by a the docile sting ray, so by prolonged incidents of risk taking up the chances of the unlikely. Garageband world music jam,coverted photo of Steve Irwin, slide whistle, melodica, recorder, kalimba, maraca,homemade digiridoo.

Episode 55 Series 13 A Brief Transcendence
While diving from a stage, is the diver seeking an all too brief moment when their bodies are disconnected to reality, that little moment that a piece of music can provide?

Episode 56 Series 13 My Thoughts Slow Down As The Ground Moves Faster
When in the midst of a long plummet to the ground I imagine your thoughts would stretch out longer, while the ground speeds ever closer to your face. Or maybe not. That's what happened to me on the Great Adventure ride, Freefall.

Episode 57 Series 13 Nor Do The Wind, The Sun, Or The Rain
Determination is extremely powerful. Be you the postal service, the operator of a Harley Davidson or BOC. Na, na-na, na, na.

Episode 58 Series 13 All Things Being In Proper Proportion
Is life a balancing act or the act of trying to achieve balance? It's seems the key to long term survival is achieving a life that has the most equal proportions. The kind of thing that the average heroin addict and terrorist lacks. Even some of the wealthiest people in the world, such as Bill Gates or Warren Buffet are feeling the need to restore balance. A photo of a high wire act converted to song data.

Episode 59 Series 13 Worst Case Scenario, You Don't Come Back Up
The closing chapter of the Perilous Behavior series addresses my deepest, greatest fear, heights. Planes don't bother me, or enclosed high up spaces, but when in the open air, like a ski lift or a scenic cliff my fear comes out. It boggles my mind why people perform bungee jumps. I have nightmares about walking along the steel girders of Verrazano bridge. Converted data from photos of people bungee jumping and software instruments.