Digging through my old cassettes I found this rather hilarious avant-garde thing I composed in 1991 on a then-fancy HR-16 drum machine, doing with it things entirely unintended by the technicians at Alesis. It’s called MY NAME IS PABLO PICASSO, a suite in five movements.
This took me quite a few hours to make. At the time I was listening to a lot of John Zorn, so the movements are all extremely short; and to a lot of Ornette Coleman, especially the album Song X, so it is very dense. I performed it at a jazz combo concert at the University of Oregon, and I think half the people thought the sound system was malfunctioning, but a girl did approach me in the art library the next day to say she liked it. Turn it up loud to get the full effect…
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I really enjoyed hearing that!
Thanks Michael! It's kind of ridiculous, but it still sounds like music to me.