Jacob Green - oboe(s)
Brent Fariss - acoustic guitar

Engineered by Clark D. Crawford at the Harten Center for Underprivileged Sounds.
Additional recording by Nathan Wood.

Folk Song (for 27 oboes and acoustic guitar)

Folk Song originally started as my attempt to create a beautiful folk / pop song. It quickly developed into something more complicated, taking over 4 years to complete (though I believe the beauty that I was searching for is perfectly realized around the 12 minute mark). Why the number 27? The main reason was due to the large amount of instrument groupings I could utilize, mainly becauce of the number 3 (3 x 3 x 3). The piece is loosely based on the overtone series based off the note “A”. The guitar outlines this in the use of a A9 chord (A + C# + E + G + B), though as the piece progresses tonality is shifted, respectively, to the harmonic poles of E, B, and finally an A major/minor tonality. Obviously, finding 27 oboes willing to play this was going to be next to impossible, so I opted to seek out a single oboe player (Jacob Green) to record all of the events. The oboe tracks were recorded one at a time and then carefully mixed (with placement in the stereo field based on each parts relationship to the harmonic series based of A). Special thanks to Jacob Green (dawn of the oboe), Clark Crawford, and Nathan Wood for all their help and continued friendship.

Dedicated to Lois Bird Cooper (4/23/21-11/16/02)

sample 1 - Folk Song (verse)

sample 2 - Folk Song (chorus)



B-SIDE (web only -- coming soon)

untitled detuned guitar pieces, vol. I-III

vol. I (dedicated to Jaren Current)

vol. II (dedicated to John Fahey)

vol. III (dedicated to Bill Thompson)