Sounds

This goes without saying, but I think I’d better say it anyway: This music is for your listening enjoyment only.

If you would like to use this music, please use this link to contact me. I’m very reasonable (and so are my prices).

For more recent production and performance work, see “Title” (2023), featuring Keith Carlock; the “I Ate Up The Apple Tree” video song (2011); and my featured interview in the PBS documentary “Wes Bound: The Genius of Wes Montgomery” (2024).

Click here if you’re looking for music from the Guy Smiley Blues Exchange.

For more recent music, check out my Soundcloud and Mixcloud pages.

08.30.2010 Brazilian Mood music for W&L Theater’s upcoming performance of Euridyce. I played and recorded all of the instruments (no MIDI this time!) with the help of Ableton Live, Collings D-1, Yamaha BB-3000S, Meinl Artist Series (Luis Conte) Studio Shaker, an older Musser xylophone, Late 70s Gretsch drums, Universal Audio 2-610, 2 Empirical Labs EL8M Distressors, Mytek Stereo96 ADC, Digidesign MBox 2,RCA 77-DX and 44-BX, Mojave Audio MA-100 and a Sony MDR-7509HD.
01.30.2006 Ableton Live makes it fun to slice funk jams.
02.03.2005 This composition has been around in one form or another for a long time. Pete Meriwether helped write a bit of the head one day in the practice room. Bob Bowers is here on the saxes.
03.24.2005 Can’t go wrong with this famous Grant sample. After jamming over the groove for a few months at Pizza Perfect, the guitar part solidified into a melody.
06.29.2005 Experimenting with texture samples and Impulse in Ableton Live. The guitar is acoustic, with various effects in Ableton Live, such as Grain Delay. Multiple versions of Steinberg Groove Agent are driving the majority of percussion sounds.
01.07.2005 A bit of jazz odyssey tonight (this one’s by the bass player) with Bob Bowers on tenor sax and me laying down the bass, keys, and drums. This track was recorded in real-time with the help of Ableton Live, Native Instruments Elektrik Piano, SIR Impulse Response Processor, DFH Superior, Spectrasonics Trilogy, Waves Plugins, Steinberg Groove Agent, Fostex T-20, Sennheiser’s HD-580, Presonus Firepod, Presonus HP4, M-Audio Keystation Pro88, and an EV RE20
08.30.2004 A techno/house track made with Steinberg Nuendo 2 and Edirol Orchestral, Spectrasonics Trilogy, Waves Plugins, Steinberg Groove Agent, Steinberg Hypersonic, Fostex T-20, Presonus Firepod, M-Audio Keystation Pro88, and an EV RE20
08.29.2004 I’ve been messing around with Steinberg Nuendo 2 and Edirol Orchestral, IK Multimedia AmpliTube, Spectrasonics Trilogy, Waves Plugins, Steinberg Groove Agent, DFH Superior, Native Instruments B4, Sennheiser’s HD-580, Fostex T-20, Presonus Firepod, M-Audio Keystation Pro88, an old trumpet, and an EV RE20

I played every track into the computer along with live guitar and trumpets. Organ, drums, percussion, bass, alto sax, and trombone sounds are generated by VSTi plug-ins that I created with Nuendo and a USB controller. I am utilizing the plug-ins like this:

  • Groove Agent for the drum patterns
  • DFH Superior Drummer for the kit
  • DFH Superior Percussion for the tambourine
  • Trilogy bass instrument
  • Acoustic trumpet stacks recorded with EV RE-20 plugged directly into the audio interface
  • alto sax and trombone from Edirol’s Orchestral
  • Native Instruments’ B4 organ
  • IK Multimedia’s Amplitube for the electric guitar plugged directly into an audio interface
05.31.2004 Keyboarding Computer Musician (me) vs. sampler and DJ (Peter Scratch aka Blackat Sylvesta from “Out of Place”) using Steinberg’s Nuendo, Steinberg’s Groove Agent, Steinberg’s The Grand, Spectrasonics Trilogy, Edirol Orchestral, Waves Plugins, Boss SP-303,Technics 1200, Edirol’s PCR-50, M-Audio Keystation Pro88, M-Audio’s Firewire 410, and the Roland RD-600

  • Sting Fan Club (jam with Edirol’s strings and flute scratches)
  • Way Back (long jam utilizing Trilogy’s awesome upright sound – goes way out at the end)
  • Island Power (I wrote this on the DDBB bus late one night)
05.31.2004 Guitar-based groove using Steinberg’s Nuendo, Steinberg’s Groove Agent, IK Multimedia AmpliTube, Spectrasonics Trilogy, Waves Plugins, Edirol’s PCR-50, M-Audio’s Firewire 410, Yamaha Pacifica, and the Roland RD-600
04.12.2004 Bob Bowers is Nashville’s best-kept secret with his dominance over any woodwind instrument, including saxes, clarinets, flutes, bassoons, etc. Bob joins me here on flute during our first Redmon Connection Mondays (EDIT: before Bob’s new day job put a stop to that) recording session using Steinberg’s Nuendo, Steinberg’s Groove Agent, Steinberg’s The Grand, Waves Plugins, Edirol’s PCR-50, M-Audio’s Firewire 410, Sennheiser’s HD-580, Fostex’s T-20, and an EV RE20
04.01.2004 Song beds I made for Julie Huntington’s French class to rap over using Steinberg’s Nuendo, Steinberg’s Groove Agent, Steinberg’s The Grand, Waves Plugins, Novation’s V-Station, Native Instruments’ B4, Edirol’s PCR-50, M-Audio’s Firewire 410, Line6’s Pod, Sennheiser’s HD-580, and the Roland RD-600

  • track 1 (bass & drums quickie)
  • track 2 (bass & industrial drums quickie)
  • track 3 (fun organ groove)
  • track 4 (piano, guitar, and bass smoove one)
2004 Song beds, loops, and songs I’ve made using Steinberg’s Nuendo, Steinberg’s Groove Agent, Steinberg’s The Grand, Waves Plugins, Novation’s V-Station, Native Instruments’ B4, Edirol’s PCR-50, M-Audio’s Firewire 410, Line6’s Pod, Sennheiser’s HD-580, and theRoland RD-600
1997-2003 Song beds, loops, and songs I’ve made using Sonic Foundry’s Acid, Ableton Live, and Syntrillium’s Cool Edit Pro
02.10.2003 Rough Mix for Baby Stout

Rebecca Stout – vocals; Paul – bass, guitar; Derek Green – drums; Graham Spice – trumpet, keyboard, mixing engineering
11.18. 2002 Rough Mixes for Frank Reynolds

Frank Reynolds – vocals, bass;, Pete Meriwether – drums; Graham Spice – guitar, keyboard
11.17.2002 The Regulars

Andy Becky – vocals, guitar; Joey – vocals, guitar; Katie – vocals; Pete Meriwether – drums; Jon Grant – bass; Graham Spice – keyboard, trumpet; Chris Grainger – engineer
1998 Rebecca Stout
I just came across these Rebecca Stout tracks that I played trumpet and electric piano on. This was my first paying session out of college, and man, was I psyched – check out the rhythm section! These tracks were only released on the Treason Records Sampler Vol. 1, as far as I know.

  1. The Liberator (3.86MB MP3)
  2. Dog (5.64MB MP3)

Rebecca Stout – vocals; Victor Wooten – acoustic bass; Reggie Wooten – guitar; J.D. Blair (The Groove Regulator) – drums; Graham Spice – trumpet, electric piano; Rob DeHart – electric upright bass; Art Ruangtip – trombone; Derek Green – shakers; Neal Cappellino – engineer at Poppi Studios
summer of 1996 Rebecca Stout & The Circus Inebrius
The Empress

  1. Empress
  2. Icarus’ Revenge
  3. Dog
  4. Under Blue
  5. The Liberator
  6. What Little Girls Are Made Of

Rebecca Stout – vocals; Dan Immel – double bass; Josh Rouse – guitar, trombone; Sharon Gilchrist – double bass, vocals; Derek Green – drums; Graham Spice – trumpet, keyboard, whistle; Grey Garner – engineer at Velvet Studios
1996 The Belmont University New Music Ensemble (BUNME)
directed by Don Byrd

  1. Head Doctor (Toby Leonard)
  2. Jubilee (John Gladwell)
  3. Lazy Daisy (Takashi Nagai)
  4. Santo Canto (Gonzalo Rubalcaba)
  5. Slow Valentine (Rich Toomey)

Toby Leonard – mandolin, guitar, bass; Rich Toomey – guitar; Takashi Nagai – guitar; Daev Seezen – drums; Graham Spice – trumpet, keyboards, guitar; April Scott – piano; Joe “Raspberry” Maloney – bass; Scott Alexander – violin, guitar; Patrick “Rev. JP Funk” Dolan – alto sax; John Sharp – coiled magnetic piece of wood; many others…

Dr. John “Leroy Banana” Thompson makes a special guest appearance on track #2
1994 Here are some old recordings I copied off a cassette with a little tweak in REAPER. They were all recorded in Studio A at Belmont University in 1994, although I think that some of Dan’s tunes were recorded in the stairway of the Massey Bldg.