Erik Spangler

Penn Station Installation: glitch 2

I asked my "Sound 1" class at Maryland Institute College of Art to create a sound installation based on field recordings of Penn Station in Baltimore. In this recording I did the same assignment I gave the students... (more)

Baltimore Celebrates Obama Win

Field recording of spontaneous celebration in the streets of Baltimore after Obama wins election. Nov. 5, between 12:30 - 1:30 AM.

Why (w/ The Jah Jah Drummers)

While I was a grad student in the Boston area, I performed regularly with an Afro-Caribbean drumming group called the Jah Jah Drummers. It was during this time that I first began making beats in hip-hop and dub styles... (more)

Improv With Mr. Bevers

In my classroom after one school day ended last year, Mr. John Bevers the technology teacher came up to improvise on the piano. I played along with him on a MIDI keyboard hooked up to the Reason program while a drum... (more)

Frank Profitt Banjer

From my first album of beats, "Tompkins Count Organic", this song samples the banjo and voice of Frank Profitt, from an old Folkways recording. Also sampled is a composition of mine for violin, played by Rolf Schulte.

Rainy

A track created for a character called Rainy, on the North walk (entitled "Life Is Monumental") of "Charm City Remix", a site-specific narrative by Kianga Ford.

High Lonesome: 1st driving scene

I recorded this short piece on guitar for my friend Andy Hulse's 2003 film "High Lonesome". This part is for a driving scene with no dialogue. Early morning in a southwestern Texas landscape.

How can I choose to sleep

I recorded this short solo vocal with a minidisc recorder while up in a tree. This is a one-take, one-track recording (with lots of delay added, to be sure). The bird you hear was actually accompanying me at the time... (more)

Clarinet Sonnet

Performed by my wife, Marie Rinkoski, on clarinet. Recorded in the woods around Ithaca NY, and layered with some scratchy vinyl pops. This clarinet melody is the introduction to a song I wrote on one of Pablo Neruda's Sonnets.

Inner Circle: Chorale

A meditative space for guitar, harp, vibraphone, english horn, french horn, viola, cello, and double bass, from my large work "Mandala of the Four Directions" (2004).

Kawthar (Vance Quartet)

This piece was written for the Vance Quartet, a student clarinet quartet at Oberlin in 2002. My wife is one of the 2 bass clarinetists heard on this recording-- we'd known each other for a few months at this point... (more)

Through Water's Eyes (postlude)

In the summer of 2001, I took a road trip across the United States with two friends on some grant money from my grad school program. Our mission was to make a multimedia art documentary about people's relationship... (more)

Scattered Glass

"putting new dope twists on licks that Philip Glass wrote"

-Hybrid Groove Project, "HGP Anthem"

HGP Anthem (instrumental)

HGP Anthem

This song made a little splash in the New Music blogosphere back in July 2008. With possibly the first diss rap directed at modern chamber music groups, Hybrid Groove Project (that's DJ Dubble8 and new music saxophonist... (more)

Don't Go Away (feat. Sewella Barnes)

This is another song that came out of my year teaching at MATHS Charter School in the Baltimore City Public School System. Sewella Barnes was one of my students who would come after school to record after school... (more)

Four Mile Cove (youth collaboration 3)

This piece grew out of a project in my digital music class at Oasis Charter Middle School (Cape Coral, FL) back in Fall 2006. I recorded some environmental sounds at night in the Four Mile Cove nature preserve in... (more)

Bunny's Noisy Book (youth collaboration 2)

This is another track resulting from a project in my digital music class at Oasis Charter Middle School (Spring 2007). Using a common pool of objects, my newborn daughter's baby instruments, I asked the students to... (more)

I Can Feel It (feat. Mark Lemon)

From my past year as a music teacher in the Baltimore City Public School System, this production features one of my best students from MATHS Charter School, Mr. Mark Lemon, doing his thing over my beat "baltimore christmas 07".

Old Turtle story (youth collaboration 1)

One in a series of collaborations that I did with students in my digital music class, back when I was teaching middle school. These are 7th and 8th graders at Oasis Charter Middle School in Cape Coral, FL. We created... (more)

Selection from OY (feat. Du Yun, SKIP)

Check out the full song on the album "What They Never Told You" by S.K.I.P., or Du Yun's version of the song (also built on my beat, but with added live players) "Stay", on her MySpace page (more)

Old Turtle 3

The third section in a musical score to accompany the children's book "Old Turtle".

Guzheng 1

A short beat interlude built on Chinese guzheng riff by Du Yun.