I am very happy to announce a new release called "Elementals" on the Stasisfield netlabel.  John Kannenberg has done the beautiful job of design, packaging and presentation that Statisfield followers have come to expect, and I am grateful to part of his roster.

In John's words:

"Peterborough, New Hampshire's Dave Seidel offers a microtonal ode to the four primal elements. Water, fire, earth and air are represented here by elegant synthetic sounds and digitally manipulated field recordings. Working primarily in Csound, Seidel sculpts swathing drones and digital flutters into monolithic representations of his natural subjects. Technicians will undoubtedly consult Seidel's notes included in the album's digital packaging as well as the more extensive essays on his personal website for details of these tracks' construction, while aesthetes will simply lose themselves in their overwhelming beauty."

http://www.stasisfield.com/releases/year07/sf-7004.html

Quranic recitation and Tibetan Buddhist chant, combined and time-stretched with spectral processing.

MP3, FLAC, notes, and Csound code at:
http://mysterybear.net/article/36/invocation

A rhapsody in distressed metal; a seven-second sample time-stretched, pitch-shifted and layered into an ambient canon.  Hope you enjoy it. As always, comments are welcome.

http://mysterybear.net/article/35/a-door-into-spring

I'm happy to announce that my Sublimation release, previously a limited-run CD-R, is now available on NewNewMusic's spiffy net label:
http://www.archive.org/details/nnm007

It's the same material as the CD, and the tracks have been available individually for a while on my website (http://mysterybear.net), but this is the only way to get them as CD-quality FLAC files.

If you like this music, please consider adding a positive review to the release page linked above.

I'm pleased to see the first review (a positive one) for my Sublimation CD at The Monadnock Review.  Thanks, Mark Saleski!

http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog....

I will be participating in the first show in this series, along with Trachypithecus and Bhob Rainey.

Just published a new piece called "Unstill Light". It's pulsating, droney, and superparticular. If you like that sort of thing, you may like this too. Made with Csound and blue. The piece is dedicated to Greg Schiemer and Warren Burt.

Notes and downloads (MP3, OGG, blue project) are here:
http://mysterybear.net/article/30/unstill-light

You can find it (with Csound code and high-quality MP3 and OGG versions) on my site.  I will eventually upload a lower-quality MP3 here.

Well, I'm back from the Sisters And Brothers tour.  We all had a great time, played some (hopefully) good music and met a bunch a nice people.  Looking forward to doing it again.

As I recuperated yesterday, I finally posted a new piece called "Second Sleep".  I've actually been working on this since last November, but it took a while for it to take shape.  You can download it and read about it on the mysterybear site.  I will upload an MP3 here as well in the nest day or so, but due to MySpace's limitations, the file will be at a lower bitrate than I prefer, so I recommend going to my site for a better quality MP3 or OGG rendering.

I'm also finishing another piece and should be posted it sometime in the next week.