Jewel Dirks

This little piece is made totally from clicking two rocks together and then a little toy cymbal.  For more on the wonderful goat Egon and how I wrote this, click here....

These five little fat pigs were written between 1988 and 1990 when I just had a used Ensoniq EPS sampling keyboard with an onboard sequencer.  I recorded a few pizz sounds from an old violin I had, and a few other things--a...

These are a series of little pieces written back in 1990.  At that point I only had an EPS Ensoniq sampler keyboard--no dedicated computer.  I sampled my little harmonica, a little drum, a tiny crotales bell, a meadowlark,...

When I am in the mountains, I am very careful to hang my food high and keep a clean camp.  Although I’ve never had a bear in my camp (that I know of), I’ve seen my share of them.  The animal that most frightens me, however,...