I got to play with Adam Chmaj at the Jazz Fellowship this week.  We played a bunch of his original tunes.  Here's one called Charlie's Memory.

with Chris Schindele on piano and Luca Cartner on drums

This is a Charlie Parker tune called Anthropology performed at Butternotes Cafe in Everett, WA with Steven Paul (Sax), Eli Sheldon (Piano), and Jeb Mack (Drums)

This is Jobim's tune Wave and Miles Davis' tune So What with Jonas Meyers and Rob Rushing played at The Cellar Cat, a wine bar in Kingston, Washington.

Here is Abba's tune, Dancing Queen, performed with plenty Manazma strangeness at the Blue Moon Tavern.

Manazma Sheen at Butternotes Cafe in Everett, Washington.  Spread (by Alfred Marra) and Earth (by Ben Shorstein)

For Breakfast

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This is Manazma Sheen's arrangement of Jackson Brown's "These Days."  I'm using the talk box with Manazma Sheen featuring Ron Weinstien at the Seamonster Lounge in Wallingford, Seattle.

This is a performance of "I'm Old Fashioned" with the Adam Chmaj Quartet at the Jazz Fellowship in Seattle.  The building's pipes decided they wanted to play along.

This is a halloween show from Manazma Sheen featuring Katrina Kope at the Seamonster in Wallingford, Seattle.  Naturally, we are all three dressed up like Garth.

This is a demo of a six-string bass I built playing Spain by Chick Corea.

This is music written by Dylan Hughes performed by Half Giraffe at Add-a-Ball in Fremont, Seattle.  Its unfortunate that I'm hiding behind the pillar.

This is a demo of a five-string bass I built playing Naima by John Coltrane.

This is a long-form music piece composed for sculpted computer-randomness implemented through Sonic Pi.

There are several global characteristics that oversee a larger structure of the piece.

There are several distinct synthesizer modules, each with their own local characteristics.

Many of the characteristics change slowly over time by way of randomly-walking variables.

Other characteristics can change suddenly, but do so depending on global probabilistic settings.

This collection of recordings were captured periodically through a three-week-long instance of this piece played throughout Shoreline Community College's 2024 Faculty Art Show.

Field Recordings taken in Shoreline, WA.

Source Code

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This is a demo of two basses I built playing Cook's Bay by Kenny Barron.

This is a performance of Bill Evans' Nardis at Boxleys in North Bend, Washigton with the Adam Chmaj Quintet.

This is some solo bass musings on Bill Evans' Piece Peace.

This is a performance of the tune Earth by Ben Shorstien.  Manazma Sheen and Jackson Cotugno at Royal Room in Columbia City, Seattle.

This is the debut of the first piccolo bass I made.  Manazma Sheen featuring Jackson Cotugno at the Seamonster Lounge in Wallingford, Seattle.