Old Music

Decisive Steps – The Fluks, 1979

By Richard on October 9, 2018

Recorded at the Park Avenue house in Binghamton, NY, 1979. Left to right: David Linton on drums. Richard Brewster on bass. Stuart Somer on keyboard. Lee Ranaldo on guitar and … Read More

Greeble – The Penguin (1975)

By Richard on February 9, 2018

Live recording by the band, Greeble, in 1975.  I played the bass.  Morey Goldstein on tenor sax and Fender Rhodes,  Steve Kurnit on guitar, Rick Strunin on drums, and Ross … Read More

Ancient Fluks Music

By Richard on April 11, 2017

Another excavation from cassette tapes, this is a recording of a live performance by my second band, The Fluks, from 1978.  It was the beginning of the New Wave in … Read More

Ancient Greeble Music

By Richard on March 30, 2017

I got around to digitizing some cassette tapes of my old bands.  The band called Greeble was the first real band that I played bass in.  Real, meaning played out … Read More

Walking Piece

By Richard on January 1, 1982

This short composition was mixed in real time. It features the formant effects of one of the Electronotes filters, creating a vocal-like quality.

Live at Norwich

By Richard on August 1, 1981

My foray into live performance. I set up a patch with the Generalized Resonator and controlled the VCO pitch and other tracking parameters with the keyboard. I’m playing the monophonic … Read More

Environment For Norman

By Richard on September 1, 1980

This is a 10-minute excerpt of an aleatoric drone that features some interesting resonance and an analog delay unit that I had built, also from Electronotes. I remember recording it … Read More

Voices One Through Four

By Richard on July 1, 1980

Four different sounds were patched up simultaneously and mixed in real time. I used a monophonic 1V/octave keyboard for some of the control. The first ‘voice’ is composed with an … Read More