Vignettes. When I started doing this challenge, an Ephemera frequently consisted of a particular theme, repeated more or less for two hours. Sure, it got broken up, but it wasn’t really something I was paying attention to. Over the course of the near 14 years I’ve been doing these performances, I’ve thought about, and subsequently acted on telling more of a story during the show. Thus came the vignette, or a small idea exposited upon as part of the show. I suppose I’m up to about 40 main themes of which some are notably memorable, but I think there are now over 100 of the vignettes, each a little exposition of emotion, image, and thought. Tonight’s Ephemera builds upon a set of tracks last visited over a year ago, with the vignettes each built out more, little stories in their own right.

The series is still an exploration of improvisation, although I’ve built up a small arsenal of little pictures to try to illustrate my feelings while I play for you. It’s still all me, although the studio changes around me, and my moods change in spite of me, and my emotions get tugged around by my own music.

I hope you listen in and share in the journey, my little stories painting scenes via my music.

The show starts at 3PM PDT/6PM/EDT/23:00 BST/00:00 WST 

To listen, just click the play arrow on our widget at  http://radiospiral.net  or you can tune your media player (or browser) in to https://radiospiral.net/stream.mp3 (or check our site for more advanced instructions).

Please, if you’d like, meet us in the Radiospiral Slack chat room or in Second Life at the RadioSpiral region, http://radiospiral.life

You can join chat by going to Discord and joining our feature-rich chat room. You’ll usually find our show host in chat too, as well as some of our wonderful collection of musicians.

If you’ve missed shows or want to explore some of the past Ephemera performances, you can find them at https://aegura2.harriman4.com/ephemera.php which has the past few years of them. Beware, they’re all 2 hours long so there’s a lot to listen to (over 350 hours and climbing).

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