I'm slowly moving to a new site: www.nathanielmurphy.com

Live Rig

I will be using this gear configuration for a show coming up. Tape loops, delays, samplers, electronic drums, and lots of wires and analog synths. Wish I could figure out how to fly with all this...

Loft playing with Tatsuhisa Yamamoto and Nels Cline

Playing at Super Deluxe in Tokyo we were lucky enough to be joined by Nels Cline on guitar scrape and Tatsuhisa Yamamoto on drum tumble.

Costumed Rocking.

Celebrating the end of Camp.

What 1997 sounded like.

Oakland Tape Music Center

New modular squelch and hiccup.


Oakland Tape Music Center by keykeyeyekit

Video and Improv

Em Salem made this video for a live improv I did with Recompas:

Psych Out for Recompas from em salem on Vimeo.

Home Built Synth Modules

Been hard at work learning electronics and building my modular.

Besides reading this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Electronics

I've also been haunting:

http://www.muffwiggler.com/

and especially:

http://electro-music.com/

where I first learned of Scott Stites Klee Sequencer, which I built (and fed into a video oscilloscope made by critter and guitari) :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAyTS0qTt6c

My buddies Scott and Travis Thatcher really got me started soldering:

http://store.curiousinventor.com/

Also built my friend Todd's sampler:

http://narrat1ve.com/

as well as three VCO's and a low-pass filter from:

http://www.musicfromouterspace.com/mfosweb/home.action

Thomas White made available some PCB's for his version of the Buchla LPG:

http://www.naturalrhythmmusic.com/lopass.html

and of course, the wonderful Scott Deyo has provided endless front panel beauty:

http://www.bridechamber.com/bridechamber.com/Home.html

Many more modules and modifications to come.