Early Demo: “Of Uncertain Origins” — original demo for “Five Themes in Uncertain Times”
Here we have a interesting relic of how the creative process can mess with you.
My perpetually unfinished magnum opus "Five Themes In Uncertain Times" has been through a lot of variations over the years I've been tinkering with it.
Throughout that, I've always kept coming back to this original demo, from before I really had more than a vague idea of what I wanted it to be. This was my first experiment with the serialist ideas that album was built on, already at this early stage very similar in fundamental composition to the current forms of "After Work, The Metronomes Unwind" and "The Cadavers' Pavane" on the present version of the album, but much less orchestrated.
In some ways, the minimalist simplicity of these early versions works for me in a way my later attempts at fuller orchestration didn't. Somehow, the atmosphere holds up as…
Back in 2009 my old ex-friend Rick Abruzzo, whom I'd met some years earlier during a mutual effort to resuscitate the soggy corpse of the San Francisco Cacophony Society, invited me to come down with my guitar and fill some airtime on 
This one is finished except for the final production and mastering... it needs some studio gloss on it.
Posted with great reluctance, my perpetually unfinished magnum opus, likely to someday stand as my failed masterpiece, a ponderous 65-minute arabesque of serialist post-rock instrumentals which, after 7 ongoing years of work and no end in sight, is at this point holding up the completion of 8 subsequent albums.
