February, 2023, Southwestern France I can hear the jet’s swelling boom as I wander out of the walled enclave and onto the rough, muddy path through the vineyard. The stiff, northwest gusts are shaping the low rumble in a modulating decay, like a noise oscillator sucked through the curving envelope of a lowpass filter. The French military has been conducting training games along the coast, so I'm on alert for sounds from the sky. Last week I was rapt as a sleek, grey fighter d

Emily created the pictures on this page while she was an inpatient at a psychiatric hospital in southern France in the late winter of 2003, during the time period when she was writing and recording her 2004 album, Angels' Abacus . Read Emily's story   about her musical composition Secteur ,  which is Part II of her new album Vista , available for streaming and download at Bandcamp . All artwork, Copyright 2003, Emily Bezar. All rights reserved.

The back story to my improvised piece “May in Mesolimbia” is a long one, and one that is still unfolding for me, but I’ll try to give you the story up ‘til now, if you are interested in hearing it. In May of 2010 I treated myself to one of my now-yearly seaside composing retreats….ostensibly […]

released 08 November 2011 Track Groups and Liner Notes: I. My Magnetic Sleep Fooled By Yesterday First, a prelude: an electronic invitation to cross over into “La Sommeil Magnétique,” inspired by Jeffrey Kripal’s chapter about French sociologist and writer Bertrand Méheust from Kripal’s extraordinary 2010 book “Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred.” […]

Happy New Year everyone! Sorry I’ve been out of touch for so long. 2009 was a year of progress and transition for me in many ways and I’m excited to say that I’ve got lots of new music brewing as we plunge into 2010 here….I’m hoping to start rolling tape (or ‘roiling computer’, as it […]

I want to close out 2006 with some interesting news. I am now down to about 5 slightly damaged copies of the original 2 pressings of my debut solo album “Grandmother’s Tea Leaves.” I’ve been searching in far corners of my basement but can’t find any more yet…..though I have been known to absentmindedly stash […]

So the first big storm of our northern CA winter is crashing in off the
Pacific tonight….I can always tell that it’s going to be a soaker when the 
dead branches from the redwood tree in my backyard start pummeling the
 kitchen skylight and my back door window starts to rumble and roll. Weather 
like this […]