After seeing probably the most influential live show of my life, Tony Conrad, Arnold Dreyblatt, and Jim O'Rourke at Tonic, I decided I wanted to build a piece of music on top of one long drone. As I was recording this, I accidentally plucked another sting on the guitar. This string was slightly out of tune, and I could distinctly hear the beats that resulted from this "out of tuneness." This really began my study of intonation and long tones.

Tones(a)tones was composed in a similar fashion as softshoeballet - mapped out on graph paper and a dry erase board. The instrumentation was acoustic guitar and bowed electric bass. Each part lasted approximately the entire running time of one cassette on my MT120 4-track cassette recorded.

• part i (21.7 MB)
• part ii (22.7 MB)
• part iii (20.8 MB)

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