In the past I wrote pieces by creating structures and then creating material that conformed to the nature of the structures. More recently I have tried using drawings and other types of freeform sketches to orient my thinking. What I want to try next is a riff on BDD (Behavior Driven Development) which is used in software development.I would say that BDD describes what happens under certain circumstances and how. It is often written in very plain language, such as "When I click submit, I... more

First, let's talk about some new releases:Not Quite Ready To Be Found is out on Falt Records. That's a solo release, my copies of the tape should arrive soon.Quartet:Quartet:Trio is out on Balance Point Acoustics. This one is with Damon Smith, Sandy Ewen, Andrew Neumann, Junko Fujiwara, and Eric Rosenthal.Another Day, Another Vector will be out on Relative Pitch records in early August. This is a recording of a session I did with Cecilia Lopez and Brandon Lopez. We hope to play some... more

In early August I did a studio session at Firehouse 12 with Brandon López and Cecilia López. Here's a really brief clip of us hanging out in the listening room! Click here to watch.

If you didn't know this about me.. I can definitely be all over the place. Check out this clip:https://storage.googleapis.com/forbes-graham-music.appspot.com/bangitout_clip.wav