Pat's Music - My homage to music groups and projects that I've worked on since 1976

Selected Recordings

Recording	Length	Year/Location of Recording	Group/Project	Original Artist	Notes
Talk Box (from "Show me the Way")	0:14	Nov 20, 1976 Mission Plaza, San Luis Obispo	Genoa	Peter Frampton	Early recording of the second Talk Box that I build in 1976.
Funky Frisbee	2:33	Dec 1976 My bedroom at my parents house in San Luis Obispo	BS Productions	Tom Bringle, Pat Scandalis	Fun funk like song, no drums, pre-synth, lots of wah and talkbox. See the story of how we recording this in my bedroom using 2 cassette decks.
I'm In Love	3:52	Dec 1976 My bedroom at my parents house in San Luis Obispo	BS Productions	Tom Bringle, Pat Scandalis	Calypso. The title "I'm in Love" is us teasing Greg Asbury the drummer in Genoa. Greg being the proper surfer dude that he was, used to say "I'm in Love" when he saw an attractive woman. We used my parents pots and pans for steel drums.
WOW Dance Intro	0:59	Sept 1980 Cal Poly Gym, San Luis Obispo	WHSPR	Tim Parkhurst, Pat Scandalis	Cool live intro that Tim Parkhurst and I brewed up. Tim is playing an ARP 2600 modular synth and Drums. I'm playing guitar with my amp overheating.
Renegade Solo	0:51	Sept 1980 Cal Poly Gym, San Luis Obispo	WHSPR	Styx	Me soloing. My amp never sounded better than during this solo. Moments after I finished, my amp was smoking and all 4 tubes were fried!
Trouble Child	3:23	July 1981 Mission Plaza, San Luis Obispo	Syberia	Joni Mitchell	I integrated Tom Scott's sax arrangement into my acoustic guitar part.
Here Song	1:37	July 4, 1981 Mission Plaza, San Luis Obispo	Syberia	Heart	Nice little song, nice chords.
Lover Arrive	3:08	July 4, 1981 Mission Plaza, San Luis Obispo	Syberia	Ambrosia	We also played this song at Chuck Whitaker's wedding.
Just A Bird	5:24	July 4, 1981 Mission Plaza, San Luis Obispo	Syberia	Leslie Ridgeway, Pat Scandalis	Written by us. I'm using an alternative tuning, interesting rhythms and time signatures. This was written before I heard the first Michael Hedges Album.
Mistral Wind	4:41	July 4, 1981 Mission Plaza, San Luis Obispo	Syberia	Heart	Love this song. The original is for big guitars. I liked that we had adapted it for acoustic guitar.
Morning Song	0:26	July 4, 1981 Mission Plaza, San Luis Obispo	Syberia	Pat Scandalis	Small segment of a classical guitar piece that I started writing in 1979. The full piece is on my list of things to record in the next year or so.
Night by Night	2:10	May 1981 Jazz Band Rehearsal Room, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo	Cal Poly Jazz Band	Steely Dan	Arrangement that I did for the Cal Poly Jazz Band. There was an interesting dynamic happening in the jazz band that you can hear reflected in the recording. The Brass section was mostly Natural Resources Management majors, and they were pretty granola, and laid back. They tended to be all over the place when playing a new piece of music. The Sax section was mostly Business majors, and they were pretty driven students. They tended to be really tight when they played a new piece of music. In this recording the brass section misses a few notes (really noticeable), and the sax section is totally tight. I'm not playing on this since I was the "arranger".
Take Five	15:35	June 18, 1988 Anarchist Coffee House	Haight Ashbury Free Band	Dave Brubeck	I think that this is the moment when the Haight Ashbury Free Band veered into out music. It starts and ends politely but the middle is wonderfully chaotic. I'm playing guitar, and the bass at the end.
Feed-In Gig	-	March 13, 1988 Marx Meadows Golden Gate Park, San Francisco	Haight Ashbury Free Band	Various	This is Nick Porcaro's Website where he has placed all the recordings that I restored from the Mark Meadows Feed-In gig.
Sea Journey	3:54	Spring 1990 My living room in Mountain View	VOT 1.0	Chick Corea	This is a Chick Corea Tune (AKA "Song for Sally"). This was the first multi track experiment that Tim Parkhurst and I did. I'm playing 3 tracks of guitar, and Tim is playing a cardboard box using brushes.
3-D Kung Fu Zombie Queens from Mars	1:05	Spring 1990 My living room in Mountain View	VOT 1.0	Tim Parkhurst, Pat Scandalis	We had access to an early sampler (Casio FZ-1) Tim made some really nice PVC pipe samples. We also used some lo-fi samples snagged from a Fairlight CMI.
VOT Redux (DJ Mix!)	1:44	Remixed Dec 2002	VOT 1.0	Tim Parkhurst, Pat Scandalis	My fun remix of material snagged from the VOT 1.0 recording sessions.
Wonderment in Eb	11:21	July 20, 1995 Frost Amphitheater Stanford University	alt.music.out	Nick Porcaro, David Rhoades	This is a piece that Nick and David wrote for alt.music.out. Its WAAYY out (think Miles Davis, "Bitches Brew"). Try not to listen to it as music, but as a collection of events and timbres. It actually had a score for us to read. We we looking for ways to use the Physical Models that we developed at Stanford. Most electric guitar that you hear in this is really a NeXT computer running a physical model of an electric guitar in SynthBuilder. (See this and this also this). There were also piano models, and weird reverb models. I think that the sitar is my electric sitar. I think that we had 3-4 NeXT Machines on stage to do all the processing. I had a Steinberger guitar with a hex pickup driving a Roland MIDI controller plugged into the MIDI interface on a NeXT machine plugged into my amp. It was a real guitar controlling a NeXT machine to play a simulation (Physical Model) of a guitar. I also used my Dan Electro Corral Sitar for about "32 bars".
Breaking Waves	2:15	Oct 17, 1998	Wedding Trio	Pat Scandalis	This is the processional that I wrote for my wedding. Its scored for Guitar, Flute and Euphonium. This is a MP3 rendered from a MIDI file using the cheezy synth on my sound card.
Little Pebbles	1:07	Oct 1998	Wedding Trio	Pat Scandalis	This is the recessional that I wrote for my wedding. Its scored for Guitar, Flute and Euphonium. This is a MP3 rendered from a MIDI file using the cheezy synth on my sound card.
Waveguide and Coupled Mode Synthesis Models	-	Spring 1997 CCRMA Stanford University	Sondius	Sound Demos	These are recordings of various synthesized physical models that I worked on.

Revision History

02/28/2003 (gps) Began pulling together all the pages from different musical groups

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