...Recording Notes...

1. Constellation M 2. Omicron 3. Cursed by Robot Gods 4. What Luck 5. Farmers in the Spirit Field 6. Erstwhile Horns 7. In the Name of the Higher Quadrivium 8. The Fair 9. To Lose Blood So Fast Challenges the    Consciousness 10. Is that a Question? 11. The Great Gull 12. When We Were Young 13. To Die No More 14. The Piper

     Fragments of What was recorded and mixed from October 2001 to July 2003 at The Surface in Oakland, CA. Most of the recording originated on the Yamaha AW4416 digital audio workstation. Some material was recorded directly to portable DAT and later transferred. Some tracks were recorded in ACID. A few tracks were transferred from old ADAT tapes. The album was mastered in HDCD.

     My approach on this recording was intuitive and open-ended. I had one or two song ideas in mind, and just started recording. Everything that followed seemed to fit.

     After six or seven years of recording with the band, I had numerous ideas/forms/sounds that I wanted to explore outside of a band framework. After exploring guitar synthesis for several years, Fragments of What is the first album on which I was able to use it. I find it to hold great creative and expressive potential. Exploring unusual sounds and adjusting the playing technique as necessary, the guitar synthesizer can reinvent itself as a completely new instrument.