Almost eight years ago, my friend Scott_M and I gathered at my house to record tracks on his four-track cassette recorder.We spent a single Saturday laying down an album called Vibrating Electric Fields. Although our intention when we began was to create an album of ambient music using three electric football fields, Scott's guitar, bass and baritone ukelele as well as kazoos, a slide whistle, and other similar little instruments, our end result was not really ambient music at all, but instead a fair bit of noise and some melody. The album sold a few copies on eBay (to aficionados of the fields). One track got featured on The Odd Music podcast.
Because Scott was kind enough to spend a Saturday on this vaguely quixotic mission, all manner of good things happened. My friend
I've had songs featured in films shown in video festivals, as well as in films more akin to home movies than high art. None of this would have happened but for Scott_M and

Today Scott_M and I spent two and a half hours recording together once again. Rather than
his little four track cassette, we used my Magix Samplitude Music Studio 14, and a group of
VST effects I have plugged in to that host. Scott laid down guitar tracks and acoustic bass tracks. He spent a lot of time recording little samples I'll use for other songs in other ways. Tonight I used a recording of
I'm grateful that Scott and
I'm grateful that I got to walk our dogs at 6:45 a.m., and that I am taking tomorrow off.
Today was a good fourth of July, and now I have good intentions and fife samples.