Dave Hartl: Music

• MP3 short clip, hi-fi play (broadband)
• MP3 short clip, lo-fi play (modem)

Dave Hartl: Chapman Stick, guitar, synths:
Arturia CS-80V (lead 3)
Arturia Moog Modular V (counterline in bass)
G-Force impOscar (lead 2)
Kurzweil PC2 (organ)
Propellerhead Reason (Electric pianos)
Spectrasonics Stylus RMX (drums)
Waldorf Microwave (lead 1)
Waldorf Microwave Xt (lead blend)

Based on the old Pennies from Heaven, I wrote this tune several years ago to plague Bill Z, who would howl like a dog when I played this. Originally a jazz-quartet kind of thing that I never actually did play out other than in class, it morphed into a more fragmented, funkier form while working with the synths and RMX. I liked the idea of a synth “sax” section with individual, different instruments. The 3rd ensemble chorus was written while on jury duty in Norristown, waiting to get called to serve on a murder trial involving cocaine and an exotic dancer; my obsession with the little dots on paper helped extricate me from jury duty (too weird for the defense lawyer to trust, I guess).