My solo post smooth jazz project. I'm mostly just focusing on remixing friends' tracks and doing electronic covers of my favorite songs. I've been developing the "remix-cover" (I probably should trademark™ that), wherein the song is a remix of the original artist's audio, but I sing the vocals and add more instrumentation. It's slightly better than karaoke. The 2008 album Remix 'n' Mingle was released as "INO-034" on Instincto Records of Austin, Texas in June 2008.

Dubstep project with Grant K. This is our first major effort since converting to Ableton Live. We work on two separate Dell™ E510's synchronized via MIDI with Ableton Live™ 7. Grant now has another souped up dual-core machine to run Native Instruments Absynth & a couple other CPU hungry VST instruments. Grant K handles the drums and bass. I do the bells and whistles. We have been working since March™ of 2006 on a bunch of new "songs" with a debut "single" targeted for the second half of "2008". (see also: virb.com/telum; myspace.com/telumusic)

Rock-oriented-musical-instruments-sort-of-esque™ project musicale with Darren F of Sun Electrolarius (and Read Alive). We've been working since May 2006 on about 9 original songs sliced and diced in Ableton Live™ and layered from a couple of improvised multi-instrument recording sessions. I'm particularly pleased with the domain name: amplifiedtorock.com (see title link, above). The debut album entitled Sundance Arithmetic is due in The Summer Of 2008.

I felt bad that I'm the only "Nathan Beach" who gets to own the "nathanbeach.com" domain, so I'm sharing nathanbeach.net with all the others. If your name is "Nathan Beach", too, you can have your own @nathanbeach.net email address and/or web site. Join the club!*

*If your name is "Nathan Beach".

An artistic tribute to the late great Russian-German composer, Alfred Schnittke. Many thanks to B. A. Eisemann for introducing me to Schnittke while driving the back roads of the 75080 with the windows down. I really wasn't meaning to cause any negative controversy with this web site, but a few people left some unpleasant comments in the guestbook (now removed from the domain). However, I think Alfred would like the site. I was in Hamburg -- completely coincidentally -- the day he died. I hope people understand that Schnittke Is Everywhere™.

I've recently teamed up with a Schnittke scholar from Germany named C Storch. We are creating the world's very first Schnittkepedia. Run on the greatness of MediaWiki, Schnittkepedia.org is a wiki repository for all things Schnittke (see also: AlfredSchnittke.com, above). Very much a work in progress at the moment.

A Television Personalities cover band. Coming soon to a rock and roll venue near you... I have been trying to get this thing going for a long time. I really just don't have room for one more music project at the moment and unfortunately the cover band one has to wait. I tabbed out (or copied from the Internet) most of And Don't The Kids Just Love It, had some practices with the old Climate (see below) line up of Bill, Grant, and me, but then it fizzled out for a while. It's going to happen eventually. I mean, we already have the domain name and everything.

The central repository for all projects musicale I do with Grant K including Climate, Print, Sketchily Writ, and Telum.

The song publishing umbrella at ASCAP for all the Climate Incorporated stuff. The actual "Bryan's Cabin" is the small pioneer cabin that sits in the middle of the Dallas County Historical Plaza in front of the courthouse.

A site I designed and maintain for Aboca's Italian Grill in Richardson. Arthur Pira is the best chef in Dallas. He catered our wedding rehearsal dinner as a gift. In exchange I'm running his website. Shelley and I used to eat at his old restaurant (Paesano's in Plano) every Thursday night. We would drink a carafe of red wine and eat a spaghetti bolognese with two house salads. Arthur's house dressing is incredible. It's the same one as at Aboca's, as far as I can tell. And at either restaurant, you start off your meal with sourdough bread, freshly baked in house (of course), and a bowl of heavily-herbed and -garlicked olive oil. Arthur also opens Aboca's up occasionally on Sunday nights for live music (the restaurant is usually closed on Sundays). My buddies in Early Lines have put shows together there a few times. Considering the ridiculously low prices for such excellent food, and the fact that Arthur sent back his Texas State liqour license because it was too much trouble to deal with (the restaurant is now B.Y.O.B. for wine), it really seems like Chef Pira is more interested in producing fine cuisine and making friends. Well, he's a genius. If you live in North Texas, you need to eat there.

An art gallery web site which posts art from almost anyone off the internet. Originally created with T Stadler, the purpose of lowfashion.com was never very understandable or well-defined, so it sort of faltered and dried up for a while (my "bad"). Lowfashion.com is again accepting submissions again at a very slow update rate. A new database-driven social-community-type version is in the works. I started it as a grad school project. It will be run on the LAMP McTechnology™ software bundle.

The first round of pure electronic music with Grant K. It basically represents all the frustrating work and experimentation we did learning electronic production basics with FL Studio™, Cubase SX™, Native Instruments Kontakt™ and Battery™ on really rough and noisy computer hardware. We did a first round of songs from March to July 2004, then worked again from March to July 2005. And then a little bit more at the beginning of 2006. March 2006 marked the miraculous conversion to Ableton Live™, two new top-of-the-line (at the time) Dell E510s linked via MIDI, new monitors, the addition of Native Instruments Reaktor 5™, and a new studio workbench. We built the workbench from scratch with our bare hands and a little help from The Home Depot™: You Can Do It. We Can Help.™ The sum total of all that completely changed everything. So, we started Telum (see Telum link above).

The bastard step-child of Climate, without the good parts. It was my first solo music project since I played Radiohead and Guy Clark covers alone in my dorm room in college. And it's kind of alright. It's almost scheduled for deletion. The artwork for the website is better than the music. Anyway, two albums are the results. One is synth-pop-oriented (removed, July 2007, because it more or less sucks) and the other is ambient-oriented with no drums or vocals. The latter recording is available in mp3 format at the Thompson and Newberry web site linked above.

A post post smooth jazz, proto-electronica project, Print was intended to be a new electronic start for Climate after the general disappointment of Swallow All Letters and the big label run-around (see "Climate", below). Unfortunately, Print never really got off the ground except for doing a soundtrack for a Jessica Solce short movie. We are using this name if we ever get any more film score work for Climate Incorporated. All the recordings are available in mp3 format at the Print web site linked above.

A sad story. With Grant K as co-engineer, the studio recorded several bands; had too many "artistic" differences with its clients, or just plain screwed up; lost one band's entire session due to a hard drive crash the day before the data backup device arrived (many thanks to the Roland VS-2480™); and finally just gave up because it was destroying Climate's work schedule. It was a massive failure that ran up debt to the tune of $10,000 or more (in 2002 dollars). This was expedited by a gentleman named Tylan Gaines, Jr. of 13102 Roselle Avenue, Apartment # 3, Holly Park, California 90250, phone # 323-281-2187 who sent a very good forged Washington Mutual cashier's check for the above-mentioned $3400 Roland VS-2480™ recorder sold over Harmony-Central.com and shipped via FedEx™ C.O.D. The forgery was so good that Etrade Bank™, the worst bank on earth, left it deposited for over three weeks before they closed the account, caused many bills and checks to bounce, accused me of forgery, and sent me into financial near-ruin. The Studio sincerely hopes that all of Mr. Gaines' recordings turned out amazing. And that the hard drive crashed irreparably before they could be exported and mastered.

An extensive music experiment with Grant K. Six full-length albums, an e.p., and another album of unfinished songs are the results. Climate released a full-length album called Swallow All Letters on Hot Link Records with William Driegert on drums and Wallace Campbell as executive producer. In support of this album, Climate played quite a few concerts with Bill on drums and Chris Dille on bass guitar. For a while, we also used Darren Frayne and Matt LaComette and the rest of The Rickets. The prior five albums were self-released on Special Friends Records (see below). The Climate career highlight was playing the Local Live radio show on KVRX in Austin during which rocker Jad Fair showed up and played the full set having never heard the songs before (and likely never after). Also, David Gordon Green played banjo on the 1999 hit album Observations on Friends and Friendship. The most encouraging (and subsequently, the only) review from all the copies I painstakingly sent out was Silver Jews' David Berman commenting via email that the Swallow All Letters album was "better than pretty good". All the recordings are available for free in mp3 format at the Climate web site linked above. Climate has not released an album since 2001, although remasters of each of the albums are in the works. An all-electronic reworking of Live For Success!, Climate's hit* album from 1998, is also partially complete.

*in the Japanese teen market.

The apartment-based label started by Climate for release of its own material. Special Friends ended up releasing Alexander Rapstine's highly-anticipated break-out solo album under the name Enitspar. The label was only the beginning of plans for a Special Empire of Companies including Special Friends Groceries and Special Friends Theme Parks (including HoboParks USA™).