hi! my name is chris, but you can call me sentencing.

i'm on a mission to create great pop music.
it turns out that this is really hard.
these are some of my first attempts.

sprawl - june 24, 2006 - AAC - lyrics

hey, new song! that only took six months. i've been writing a lot, but not finishing anything. there are actually a few earlier versions of this song, all with different lyrics/vocal melodies/guitar/etc., but the same basic structure (if you heard it, "booth on lincoln" was one of these). i'd work on one for a while, only to decide that i'd spent a week recording a song i didn't even like, and scrap it. this is also the first track here to feature all my new gear: a motu 896, some oktava condensers for X-Y guitar recording, and an AT3035 vocal mic. other gear used: courtney's guitar, and my sony mdr-7506s as a mic. also, seems like it's time to buy a bass guitar. the sixth string on courtney's guitar is nice, but not quite distinct enough from the guitar... update: new, better mix.

cruiser (mark kozelek cover) - december 31, 2005 - AAC

this is just the first two verses and the first chorus of a wonderful mark kozelek song about los angeles. i would like to record the entire song later, with more detailed/changing parts. and, if i could not be asthmatic, that would be cool too. a little experimentation would be nice, then build build build to the synth+guitars that are in there now... anyway, this is the first recording with my new les paul guitar, in addition to my dad's peaveycaster. no drums in florida, so you get a reason drum machine.

wiretap - december 11, 2005 - AAC - lyrics

the impetus to do this was my friend from middle school in FL, elizabeth. After graduating from cornell she enrolled in comic book school. (!) her final project for this semester is a 30-page book with different stories, all about birds. she asked all of her friends if we would like to write songs about birds for a compilation CD, to be inserted in the book. so this song is one of the songs that will appear on the CD. hopefully there was room for trashy pop on there.

giri - june 27, 2004 - AAC

unrelated to this project but possibly interesting: i am a classical percussionist. this is the last solo for marimba i wrote and recorded. it was written as a final project for a japanese culture class i did in summer 2004, and reflects a lot of the keiko abe-ish 20th century sound that i like. warning, you really need good speakers or headphones to play this. it's not really processed at all, and the five-octave marimba one i used (pictures: flickr) has a very large frequency and dynamic range.


you can also find me at kampers.net.