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A collection of mash-ups/remixes from late September through mid-November 2020 by Steve Layton, from tracks offered up at the weekly online improvisation & music-sharing web event known as Sound-In.

Musicians: Bill Newbold (NJ), Jim Goodin (NY), James Bailey (Toronto Canada), Chris Vaisvil (IN), Kavin Allenson (TX), Shane Cadman (CA), Benjamin Smith (NJ), Jeff Fairbanks (MD), Roger Sundström (Eksjö, Sweden), Kawol Samarkandi (Yokohama, Japan), Steve Layton (WA)

Released 2020-11-16

A collection of mash-ups and remixes from January & February 2020 by Steve Layton, from tracks offered up at the weekly improvisation & music-sharing web event known as Sound-In.

Featured Musicians: Steve Layton [Seattle WA] (all tracks) Bruce Hamilton [Bellingham WA] (tr. 1, 10, 11) Chris Vaisvil [Indianapolis IN] (tr. 1, 4, 9, 10, 13, 14) Jim Goodin [Brooklyn NY] (tr. 2, 5, 6, 11) Roger Sundström [Eksjö Sweden] (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 13) Kavin Allenson [Ft.Worth TX] (tr. 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 13, 14) Shane Cadman [Whittier CA] (tr. 3, 4, 7, 11, 13, 14) Benjamin Smith [West Orange NJ] (tr. 5, 7, 13) James Bailey [Toronto Canada] (tr. 6, 12) Kawol [Yokohama Japan] (tr. 8) J.C. Combs [Mukilteo WA] (tr. 13) Bill Newbold [Highland Park NJ] (tr. 13, 14) Paul Muller [Ventura CA] (tr. 14)

Released 2020-03-01

A collection of mash-ups/remixes created from early April through mid-May 2021, by Steve Layton, from improvisation tracks offered up by musicians across the USA and across the oceans, at the weekly online improvisation & music-sharing web event known as Sound-In.

Musicians featured: Chris Vaisvil, Maria E. Ljungdahl, Kavin Allenson, Shane Cadman, Bill Newbold, Jim Goodin, J.C. Combs, Roger Sundström, James Bailey, Benjamin Smith, Andy McCance, Kawol Samarkandi, Steve Layton

Released May 9, 2021

Mash-ups and Remixes from 2011 and 2012 by Steve Layton, of musicians and tracks offered up at the weekly online sharing event Soundin.org

Musicians: Chris Vaisvil, Norbert Oldani, Paul Muller, Bruce Hamilton, Steve Moshier, Jeff Fairbanks, Christiane Offenbar, Guenter Glaeser, Jim Goodin, Tom O'Neill, Richard Sanderson, Kavin Allenson, Peter Thörn, Steve Layton, Jeff Duke, Jukka-Pekka Kervinen, Benjamin Smith, Roger Sundström, Paul Hertz, Fabio Keiner, Johnny Porto, Kawol, Glenn Smith, Petri Haapa, Paulo Chagas, Paul Mimlitsch, Ojo Taylor, Steve Moyes

Released 2018-01-17

A collection of mash-ups by Steve Layton, from 2011 through 2015, featuring the musicians of Sound-In (www.sound-in.org), a weekly online music-sharing event.

Released November 19, 2015

All mash-ups/mixes by Steve Layton / Musicians: Kavin Allenson, William Newbold, Ribi, Roger Sundström, Benjamin Smith, Paul Muller, Tom O'Neill, Paul Mimlitsch, Shane Cadman, Steve Moshier, James Bailey, Chris Vaisvil, Jim Goodin, J.C. Combs, Jeff Fairbanks, Bruce Hamilton, Carla J. Patterson, Glenn Smith, Peter Thörn, Joel Sutton, Norm Harris

A collection of mash-ups and mixes by Steve Layton, from improvisations shared from around the country and across the oceans, during the weekly web event held at Soundin.org.

Released 2017-11-21

Musicians: Steve Layton, Kavin Allenson, Paul Muller, Bill Newbold, Benjamin Smith, Shane Cadman, Paul Mimlitsch, James Bailey, Roger Sundström, Peter Thörn, Jeff Fairbanks, Steve Moshier, Jim Goodin, Chris Vaisvil, Paul Hertz, Jeff Duke, Adam Kondor, Bruce Hamilton, Richard Lainhart, Greg Hooper, Norbert Oldani, J.C. Combs

All original tracks mashed up and remixed by Steve Layton

A collection of mash-ups and remixes made from tracks offered up to the weekly worldwide online sharing event known as Sound-In. All of the tracks created by these musicians are mostly improvisations, and none of the musicians were aware of what the others were creating. From this unpredictable pool, Steve Layton chose certain tracks to lay down against certain others, added some judicious editing/processing, and a new hybrid recording was born.

Released April 11, 2020

Musicians: Shane Cadman, Kavin Allenson, Christiane Offenbar, Johnny & Faith, Ojo Taylor, J.C. Combs, Jeff Fairbanks, Kawol, Jim Goodin, Steve Layton, Roger Sundström, Ken Ficara, Paul Mimlitsch, James Bailey, Peter Thörn, Benjamin Smith, Fabio Keiner, Chris Vaisvil, Gérard DeGroote, Steve Moyes

A collection of mash-up mixes by Steve Layton, of tracks shared by musicians during our weekly online Sound-In event series.

Released December 27, 2024

Musicians: Kavin Allenson, Jim Goodin, Chris Vaisvil, Benjamin Smith, Roger Sundström, Paul Mimlitsch, Shane Cadman, Steve Moshier, Bill Newbold, James Bailey

Mash-ups and remixes created from March through June, 2014, at the weekly worldwide music-sharing event Sound-In.org. Each week, no one tells each musician what to play, no one tells the mashers or remixers which tracks to use, we don't even know if or when any particular musician will show up for the event... Yet somehow they do, and a certain magic happens, thoughts and lines coalesce into new pieces; the sound of everyone, even though separated by hundreds or thousands of miles, somehow playing together. These dozen tracks document but a small part of the magic that happens each week at Sound-In.

Released 16 June 2014

Tracks 1-11 mashed/remixed by Steve Layton

Track 12 remixed by Roger Sundström

Musicians: Steve Layton, Roger Sundström, Kavin Allenson, Paul Mimlitsch, Johnny & Faith, Benjamin Smith, William Newbold, Norbert Oldani, Steve Moyes, James Bailey, Glenn Smith, Shane Cadman, Ojo Taylor, Christiane Offenbar, Carla J. Patterson, Chris Vaisvil, Eric Gross, Ken Ficara, Jim Goodin, Bruce Hamilton

A collection of mash-ups/remixes created from January 2nd-24th, 2020 by Steve Layton, from improvisation tracks offered up by musicians across the USA and across the oceans, at the weekly online improvisation & music-sharing web event known as Sound-In.

Musicians: Bruce Hamilton, Kavin Allenson, Chris Vaisvil, Freesound (giddster, nikirari), Roger Sundström, James Bailey, Bill Newbold, Kawol, Norbert Oldani,, Shane Cadman,, Benjamin Smith, Jim Goodin, Steve Layton

Released January 25, 2021

A collection of mash-ups and mixes made in October and November 2021 by Steve Layton, from improvisations shared from around the country and across the oceans, at the weekly web event known as Sound-In.

Musicians: Kavin Allenson, Chris Vaisvil, Roger Sundström, Andy McCance, James Bailey, Bill Newbold, Kawol Samarkandi, Shane Cadman, Benjamin Smith, Jim Goodin

Released November 6, 2021

A collection of mash-ups and mixes made in 2021 and 2022 by Steve Layton, from improvisations shared from around the country and across the oceans, at the weekly web event known as Sound-In.

Musicians: Kavin Allenson, Chris Vaisvil, Paul Muller, Roger Sundström, James Bailey, Jeff Sampson, Bill Newbold, Kawol Samarkandi, Shane Cadman, Benjamin Smith, Jim Goodin.

All tracks mixed by Steve Layton.

Released 2022-08-05

Commemorating ten years since making these mash-up/mixes as part of our weekly online music-sharing event, known then as ImprovFriday, now called Sound-In. Musicians from around the country and world offered up their improvisations, and endlessly creative and eclectic pool from which to draw my source material each week.

Musicians: Steve Layton, Norbert Oldani, Benjamin Smith, Chris Vaisvil, Jérôme Poirier, Steve Moshier, Jeff Duke, Diego Monroy, James Ross, Roger Sundström, Peter Thörn, Kavin Allenson, Bruce Hamilton, Paul Muller, Richard Sanderson, Gaetano Fontanazza, Shane Cadman, Joel Sutton, Kawol Samarkandi, Jukka-Pekka Kervinen, Norm Harris, Johnny Porto, Jim Goodin, Anders Andersson, Paul Mimlitsch, Dave Seidel, Lee Noyes, Glenn Weyant, Jude Cowan Montague

Released September 20, 2021

A collection of mash-ups, made from tracks offered up to the weekly worldwide online sharing event known as Sound-In (www.soundin.org). All of the tracks created by these musicians are mostly improvisations, and none of the musicians were aware of what the others were creating. From this unpredictable pool, Steve Layton chose certain tracks to lay down against certain others, and a new hybrid recording was born.

Musicians in order of appearance: Kavin Allenson, Bruce Hamilton, Steve Moshier, Steve Moyes, Chris Vaisvil, Benjamin Smith, Shane Cadman, Jeff Duke, Gaetano Fontanazza, Roger Sundström, Bill Newbold, Steve Layton, JC Combs, Paul Mimlitsch, Jeff Fairbanks, Ken Ficara, Paul Muller, Norbert Oldani

All tracks mashed & mixed by Steve Layton

Released June 12, 2017

A collection of mash-ups/remixes created from late January through early April 2021, by Steve Layton, from improvisation tracks offered up by musicians across the USA and across the oceans, at the weekly online improvisation & music-sharing web event known as Sound-In.

Musicians featured: Chris Vaisvil, Kavin Allenson, Shane Cadman, Paul Muller, Bill Newbold, Jim Goodin, J.C. Combs, Roger Sundström, James Bailey, Jeff Fairbanks, Andy McCance, Norbert Oldani, Kawol Samarkandi, Steve Layton

Released April 5, 2021

A compilation of 10 mash-up mixes created from 2010 to 2016, by Steve Layton from tracks contributed to the weekly worldwide online Sound-In event (www.sound-in.org).

Musicians: Chris Vaisvil, Roger Sundström, William Newbold, Kavin Allenson, Hentai Improvising Orchestra, Peter Thörn, Paul Muller, Fabio Keiner, Jim Goodin, Tom O'Neil, Steve Layton, Richard Sanderson, Steve Moyes, Timo Tuhkanen, Jukka-Pekka Kervinen, Benjamin Smith, Shane Cadman, Paul Mimlitsch, Bruce Hamilton, Jeff Duke

Released September 27, 2016

A single 46-minute track conceived by Steve Layton, with music by Layton and members of the online music collective Sound-In (www.sound-in.org)

Iana was the Sumerian goddess of love, fertility, and warfare, and goddess of the E-Anna temple at the city of Uruk, her main center.

"From the great heaven she set her mind on the great below. From the great heaven the goddess set her mind on the great below. From the great heaven Inana set her mind on the great below. My mistress abandoned heaven, abandoned earth, and descended to the underworld. Inana abandoned heaven, abandoned earth, and descended to the underworld...."

Released 14 July 2014

Musicians: Steve Layton (Washington State), Paul Muller (California), William V. Newbold (New Jersey), Chris Vaisvil (Indiana), Roger Sundström (Sweden), Diego Monroy (Spain), Jim Goodin (New York), Jeff Duke (Florida)

Mix: Steve Layton

A compilation of mash-ups and remixes By Steve Layton, of tracks contributed by musicians across the country and across the ocean, for the weekly online music-sharing event at Soundin.org.

Released 2017-09-04

Musicians: Kavin Allenson, Shane Cadman, Jim Goodin, James Bailey, Carla J. Patterson, Roger Sundström, William Newbold, Chris Vaisvil, Benjamin Smith, Christiane Offenbar, Justin Brierley, Paul Mimlitsch, Steve Layton, Norbert Oldani , Paul H. Muller, Jeff Duke, Lydia Busler-Blais

All tracks mixed by Steve Layton

Collection of mash-ups by Steve Layton, from Sound-In sessions that occurred between December and April, 2013.

released 28 March 2013

Musicians featured: Jeff Fairbanks (1, 9), Glenn Smith (1, 6, 7, 9), Joan Punyet (1), Shane Cadman (2), Roger Sundström (2, 3, 7, 9, 11), Paul Mimlitsch (2, 4, 8, 10), Paul Muller (2, 3, 10), Benjamin Smith (2, 3, 10, 11), Eric Gross (3), Paulo Chagas (3), Christiane Offenbar (4), J.C. Combs (5), Ojo Taylor (5), Steve Moyes (5), Bruce Hamilton (5, 11), Jeff Duke (5), Steve Layton (4, 6), Kawol Samarkand (7), Steve Moshier (8, 11), Chris Vaisvil (9, 11), Norbert Oldani (9), Jim Goodin (11), Kevin Martin (11).

I was approached for a piece remembering the events of 9-11 in New York City. I chose to combine four tracks created during our 2010 ImprovFriday sessions, where musicians around the world meet each week to share their creativity.

Nothing literal, only four evocations of different "atmospheres" that surround and inhabit memory. Events such as this carry a bit of everything for people; unease, awe, terror, desolation, but also survival, courage, tenderness, remembrance, and the thread of life that will always continue. None of these can really ever be extricated from any other part, and so it is here.

Released 23 August 2011

Musicians -- Steve Layton (Texas), digital synthesis and mix, with: Kavin Allenson (Texas), Jukka-Pekka Kervinen (Finland), Roger Sundström (Sweden), Norbert Oldani (New York), Gaetano Fontanazza (Italy), Steve Moyes (England), Jeff Duke (Florida), Benjamin Smith (New Jersey), Bruce Hamilton (Washington), Shane W. Cadman (California)

A collections of mash-up/remixes by Steve Layton, of weekly tracks offered up by participants in Sound-In.org, from the last months of 2016 (except #8 "Memory Flow", created in January 2012 as homage to the passing of electronic music wizard and good friend Richard Lainhart).

Musicians: Chris Vaisvil, Roger Sundström, Paul Muller, Paul Mimlitsch, Bill Newbold, Jeff Fairbanks, Kavin Allenson, Shane Cadman, Maria Ljungdahl, James Bailey, Steve Layton, Glenn Smith, Norbert Oldani, Jim Goodin, Richard Lainhart (RIP), Richard Sanderson, Steve Moyes, Benjamin Smith, Steve Moshier (RIP), Diego Monroy, Gérald DeGroote, James Ross

All tracks mixed by Steve Layton

Released January 7, 2017

A collection of mash-ups/remixes created from early mid-May through mid-August 2021, by Steve Layton, from improvisation tracks offered up by musicians across the USA and across the oceans, at the weekly online improvisation & music-sharing web event known as Sound-In.

Musicians featured: Kavin Allenson (1,2,4,7), Jim Goodin (1,4,6), Chris Vaisvil (1,5,7,9), Shane Cadman (2,3,4,8), Paul Muller (3), Steve Layton (3,7), James Bailey (4,6,7,8), Roger Sundström (4,6,8,9), Maria Ljungdahl (4,6,8), Andy McCance (4,5), Bill Newbold (4,5,6,7)

Released August 13, 2021

A collection of mash-ups and mixes made in the first half of 2016 by Steve Layton, from improvisations shared from around the country and across the Atlantic, at the weekly web event at Sound-In.org.

Musicians: Chris Vaisvil, Bruce Hamilton, James Bailey, Paul Mimlitsch, Kavin Allenson, Roger Sundström, Shane Cadman, Jim Goodin, Ken Ficara, Bill Newbold, Benjamin Smith, Steve Moshier, Norbert Oldani, Steve Layton

Released June 13, 2016

Mash-up mixes by Steve Layton, from contributions to the weekly Sound-In web music meeting/sharing site: www.sound-in.org

released 22 April 2013

Musicians: Glenn Smith (1, 7), Chris Vaisvil (1, 9), Paul Mimlitsch (1, 4, 5, 9), Benjamin Smith (2, 6, 7, 10, 12, 13, 14), Steve Layton (2, 10, 11, 13), Paul Muller (3, 8, 11, 13), James Bailey (3), Roger Sundström (3, 10, 11, 13), Kavin Allenson (4, 5, 8, 9, 14), Shane Cadman (4, 6, 9), Lydia Busler-Blais (5), Jim Goodin (5, 8, 10), Bruce Hamilton (5, 9), Ken Ficara (5), Jeff Duke (6, 8), Steve Moyes (6), Peter Thörn (6), Christiane Offenbar (6, 13), J.C. Combs (7), William V. Newbold (8, 9), Kawol Samarkand (11, 12), Johnny & Faith (14), Steve Moshier (14)

All mash/mixes by Steve Layton

Cover photo: Kawol Samarkand

A collection of mash-ups/remixes from mid-November through late December 2020 by Steve Layton, from tracks offered up at the weekly online improvisation & music-sharing web event known as Sound-In.

Musicians: Steve Layton, Shane Cadman, James Bailey, Bill Newbold, Kavin Allenson, Chris Vaisvil, Paul H. Muller, Jim Goodin, Roger Sundström, Jeff Fairbanks, Kawol

Released 2020-12-26

Between April 26th-28th 2012, twenty-five musicians from around the U.S. and the world gathered at the music-sharing website known as ImprovFriday.com. The suggested theme for our sharing was simply "ppp;" i.e., the music term for "extremely soft and quiet." How each person interpreted this in their own performance was left to them. This CD documents mash-ups I made during the course of the weekend event, of all the different tracks coming in to the site from these musicians. Some tracks were heavily edited, but most were left close to their original state, and simply allowed to interact with the other tracks in an unforced way.

Musicians: Günter Gläser, Kawol Samarkand, Roger Sundström, Peter Thörn, Glenn Smith, J.C. Combs, Lee Noyes, Kavin Allenson, Steve Moyes, Richard Sanderson, Paul Muller, Lydia Busler-Blais, Benjamin Smith, Jérôme Poirier, Fabio Keiner, Norbert Oldani, Chris Vaisvil, Steve Layton, Paulo Chagas, Steve Moshier, Bruce Hamilton, Shane Cadman, Jim Goodin.

When in 2010 we began the weekly online improvisational music-sharing event known as ImprovFriday (by late 2012 renamed Sound-In), one of the founding members was a guitarist living in Ocala, Florida, by the name of Jeff Duke. Coming from a psych-rock background but with an experimental bent, Jeff was master at building ambient, looping guitar textures, often with soaring solos embedded in the mix. He was also an early adopter of live-streaming, and an enthusiastic collaborator with other online musicians across the country and across the oceans.

From 2010 through 2013 Jeff was a constant presence and inspiration in our ImprovFriday / Sound-In events, and it was my honor to be able to mash/mix so many of his tracks with the contributions of our other members.

Around the end of 2013, Jeff's health issues and a general dissatisfaction led to him stopping most playing, yet we stayed in touch as he rode out the Florida storms over the years.

In May of 2020, cancer claimed Jeff before we could give much of a proper goodbye.

This album is dedicated to his memory, and features ImprovFriday / Sound-In mash-ups I made during 2010-2013, all featuring... more

Released June 6, 2020

Musicians:

Jeff Duke (RIP) [all tracks], Shane Cadman, Kavin Allenson, Bruce Hamilton, Chris Vaisvil, Steve Moshier (RIP), Adam Kondor, Jim Goodin, Roger Sundström, Kevin Haller (RIP), James Bailey, Jukka-Pekka Kervinen, Paul Muller, Norbert Oldani, David Perreko, Ken Palmer (RIP), Peter Thörn, Richard Sanderson, Steve Layton, Gaetano Fontanazza, Steve Moyes, Tom Izzo, Glenn Smith, Petri Haapa, Joel Sutton, Bill Newbold, Lydia Lowery Busler, Paul Mimlitsch, Kawol Samarkandi, Paul Bailey, Irixx Miro

All mash-ups /remixes by Steve Layton

Compilation of mash-ups from Sound-In, a worldwide web music-sharing event held weekly at www.sound-in.org

Mash-ups, mixes, titles: Steve Layton

Musicians: Kavin Allenson, Roger Sundström, William Newbold, Paul Muller, Christiane Offenbar, Steve Moshier, Paul Mimlitsch, Norbert Oldani, Benjamin Smith, Chris vaisvil, Justin H. Brierley, Shane Cadman, Jim Goodin

Lyrics by: Susanne Popp, Richard Leach, Anallithbar, Birgit Zartl

Released January 13, 2016

Released 18 October 2014

Mash-up created from music submitted to the October 16-17, 2014 weekly worldwide web session at Sound-In.org.

Musicians (in order of appearance): William Newbold (New Jersey), Steve Moshier (California), Roger Sundström (Sweden), Paul Mimlitsch (Colorado), Chris Vaisvil (Indiana), Kavin Allenson (Texas), Shane Cadman (California), James Bailey (Canada), Benjamin Smith (New Jersey), Paul Muller (California).

Mix by Steve Layton (Washington State).

Mash-ups and remixes made by Steve Layton, from tracks shared by musicians each weekend online at Soundin.org, November 2017 through February 2018.

Released 2018-02-04

Musicians: Chris Vaisvil, Kavin Allenson, Benjamin Smith, Shane Cadman, Roger Sundström, Jim Goodin, Bill Newbold, James Bailey, Paul Mimlitsch, Steve Layton

Mash-ups and remixes from 2014-15 by Steve Layton, of tracks offered by musicians to the the Sound-In worldwide music-sharing event (www.sound-in.org).

Released 26 July 2015

Mash-ups, mixes, titling: Steve Layton

Musicians: Steve Layton (WA), Kavin Allenson (TX), Jim Goodin (NY), Shane Cadman (CA), Roger Sundström (Sweden), William Newbold (NJ), Jeff Fairbanks (MD), Paul Mimlitsch (CO), Chris Vaisvil (IN), Justin H. Brierley (RI), Paul Muller (CA), James Bailey (Canada), Steve Moshier (CA), Ken Ficara (NY), Christiane Offenbar (Germany), Norbert Oldani (NY), Glenn Smith (TX), Benjamin Smith (NJ), Richard Sanderson (England)

Mash-ups by Steve Layton, of tracks contributed by musicians worldwide during the weekly online event known as ImprovFriday (www.improvfriday.com). On this particular release, each track was personally chosen as a favorite by an ImprovFriday musician whose work appears on that track.

Virtually all of the original tracks that make up the threads of these mash-ups were conceived and recorded with no knowledge of what the other musicians might be making and sharing. To keep the freshness and surprise, each mash-up was made using only the tracks shared during that particular two-day event. For the most part, very little processing (other than EQ, reverbs and fades) was used during the mash/mix procedure; the tracks are mostly just laid down next to each other and allowed to unfold and intertwine.

Featured musicians: Jérôme Poirier (France), Paul Hertz (Iowa), Benjamin Smith (New Jersey), Roger Sundström (Sweden), Peter Thörn (Sweden), Paul Muller (California), Kavin Allenson (Texas), Shane Cadman (California), Jeff Duke (Florida), Norbert Oldani (New York), Chris Vaisvil (Indiana), Jude Cowan (England), Steve Moyes (England), Diego Monroy (Spain), Jim Goodin (New York), Steve Moshier (California), Steve Layton (Texas), Bruce Hamilton (Washington), Richard Sanderson (England), Fabio Keiner (Austria), Gary Hall (Thailand).

Track 1. featuring Kawol Samarkand, Joel Sutton, Richard Sanderson

Track 2. featuring Jeff Fairbanks, Norbert Oldani, Chris Vaisvil

Track 3. featuring Kavin Allenson, Richard Sanderson, Roger Sundström, Paul Muller, Jeff Duke, Bruce Hamilton, Jerry Gordon (poem & reading), Shane Cadman

Track 4. featuring Paul Muller, Shane Cadman, Benjamin Smith

Track 5. featuring Jérôme Poirier, Richard Sanderson, Steve Moshier, Roger Sundström x 2, Benjamin Smith, Kavin Allenson, Bruce Hamilton x 2, Norbert Oldani, Joel Sutton, Jim Goodin, Ken Palmer

Track 6. featuring Norbert Oldani, Chris Vaisvil, Kavin Allenson

Track 7. featuring Roger Sundström x 2, Paul Muller, Jeff Duke x 2, Shane Cadman, Diego Monroy

Track 8. featuring Benjamin Smith, Kavin Allenson, Bruce Hamilton, Steve Moshier

Track 9. featuring Chris Vaisvil x 2, Manu Zerbib, Peter Thörn, Jeff Duke x 2, Kavin Allenson, Norbert Oldani

Track 10. featuring Benjamin Smith, Paul Muller, Joel Sutton, Norbert Oldani

A collection of mash-ups and mixes made over the course of 2011 by composer Steve Layton, from original performances by the other members of ImprovFriday -- an ongoing weekly, worldwide, online music-sharing event. ImprovFriday can be found at www.improvfriday.com

Released 19 December 2011

A collection of mash-ups/remixes from August and September 2020 by Steve Layton, from tracks offered up at the weekly online improvisation & music-sharing web event known as Sound-In.

Musicians: Bill Newbold (NJ), Jim Goodin (NY), James Bailey (Toronto CA), Chris Vaisvil (IN), Kavin Allenson (TX), Shane Cadman (CA), Benjamin Smith (NJ), Roger Sundström (Eksjö, Sweden), Steve Layton (WA)

Released 2020-09-20

A compilation of mash-ups from our June 2012 worldwide ImprovFriday sessions, all relating to the theme of summer.

Musicians: Glenn Smith (1), Richard Sanderson (1, 5), Paul Mimlitsch (1, 5), Roger Sundström (1, 2, 7), Günter Gläser (2), Peter Thörn (2, 7), Steve Layton (2, 7), Bruce Hamilton (3, 4), Chris Vaisvil (4, 5), Steve Moshier (4, 7), Kavin Allenson (4, 5), Jim Goodin (3, 7), Diego Monroy (3), Fabio Keiner (3, 7), Paul Muller (5, 6, 8), Norbert Oldani (5), Kevin Martin (5), Shane Cadman (6, 8), Paul Hertz (6), Benjamin Smith (6)

All mash-ups created, edited and mixed by Steve Layton, June 2012.

A collection of mash-ups, remixes and transformations, by various members of the weekly online music-sharing event known as Sound-In (www.sound-in.org), made during 2013 and 2014. At Sound-In, musicians from all over the USA and around the world meet virtually to share new improvisations, compositions and sound-art. Part of the process each week involves other members taking these separate, disparate tracks and combining them into seemingly organic sonic entities. This CD highlights the mashing and remix skills of a number of the Sound-In regulars, using tracks contributed by themselves and others.

Mixers/mashers: Steve Layton, Bruce Hamilton, Roger "ErocNet" Sundström, Kavin, Chris Vaisvil

Musicians:
Track 1: Steve Layton, Jim Goodin, Kavin
Track 2: Steve Moyes, Steve Layton, Benjamin Smith, Paul Mimlitsch
Track 3: jareilly/Freesound, Chris Vaisvil, Roger "ErocNet" Sundström
Track 4: Roger "ErocNet" Sundström, Jude Cowan Montague and Steve Moyes, Jeff Duke, Paul Mimlitsch
Track 5: Helena Johansson & Roger "ErocNet" Sundström, Johnny & Faith & Grandma, James Bailey
Track 6: Norbert Oldani, Paul Muller, Kavin
Track 7: Jeff Fairbanks; Paul Mimlitsch; Steve Moshier; Roger "ErocNet" Sundström
Track 8: Fabio Keiner, Ojo Taylor, Steve Moshier, Kavin, Jim Goodin, Paul Mimlitsch
Track 9: Benjamin Smith, Bruce Hamilton, J.C. Combs, Roger "ErocNet" Sundström, Norbert Oldani, Jim Goodin, Shane Cadman, Steve Moyes, Kavin
Track 10: Roger "ErocNet" Sundström, Paul H. Muller, Paul Mimlitsch, James Bailey, Steve Layton, Kavin

Collected mash-ups and remixes by Steve Layton, as part of the weekly worldwide music exchange Sound-In.

Musicians: Bill Newbold, Chris Vaisvil, Shane Cadman, Kavin Allenson, James Bailey, Roger Sundström, Peter Thörn, J.C. Combs, Bruce Hamilton, Ojo Taylor, Jim Goodin, Norbert Oldani, Paul Muller

All tracks mixed by Steve Layton, Seattle, USA, 2019 (except "The Lighthouse", 2013)

Released 2019-10-19

After 13 years, the Sound-In event mash/mix archive runs deep, so deep that even the musicians themselves have no idea.

While making some of my first mash-up/mixes of this year, I thought I'd pair them with tracks dredged out of the years 2014 and 2015. All thanks to the wonderful, creative musicians who have passed through online over the years.

Released April 21, 2023

Musicians, Track 1. Kavin Allenson, Bill Newbold 2. James Bailey, Roger Sundström, Steve Moshier, Shannon Browning 3. Benjamin Smith, Kavin Allenson 4. Benjamin Smith, Shane Cadman, Roger Sundström 5. James Bailey, Bill Newbold, Chris Vaisvil, Kavin Allenson 6. Richard Sanderson, Chris Vaisvil, Paul Mimlitsch, Christiane Offenbar 7. Roger Sundström, Benjamin Smith, Shane Cadman 8. Roger Sundström, Shane Cadman, Chris Vaisvil 9. Roger Sundström, Jeff Fairbanks, Steve Moshier 10. Roger Sundström, Chris Vaisvil, Norbert Oldani, Benjamin Smith 11. Roger Sundström, Paul Mimlitsch, Chris Vaisvil 12. Ojo Taylor, Benjamin Smith, Paul Muller 13. Chris Vaisvil, Kavin Allenson 14. Chris Vaisvil, James Bailey, Steve Moyes

All tracks mashed/mixed by Steve Layton

Collected mash-ups / remixes by Steve Layton, from late 2018 to early 2019, as part of the weekly worldwide online music sharing event known as Sound-In.

Released April 8, 2019

Musicians: Chris Vaisvil, Roger Sundström, Peter Thörn, Kavin Allenson, Shane Cadman, James Bailey, Bill Newbold, J.C. Combs, Paul Mimlitsch, Jim Goodin, Benjamin Smith, Bruce Hamilton, Norbert Oldani, Charlene Stocker, Jason Austin, Kawol, Steve Layton

All original tracks remixed by Steve Layton

A compilation of mash-ups / mixes created from early June to late September 2018, by Steve Layton from tracks contributed to the weekly worldwide online Sound-In event (www.soundin.org).

Since early 2009, various musicians around the world have checked in weekly at a web site first known as "ImprovFriday", and later "Sound-In". From Thursday afternoon (US Pacific time) through Saturday evening, any and all are free to share newly composed or improvised tracks, hear each other’s work, discuss and connect.

Part of my own working style these past 30 years is the mash-up, remix, or audio collage. Never being much of a live performer, averse to microphones and limited in the equipment I could call my “studio,” I’ve often resorted to integrating (or sometimes, dissembling) others’ recorded music and sound into newly composed pieces of my own.

Improvisation is often performed solo, but just as often as a group venture. At Sound-In we had many great solo tracks being offered up; yet many times I’d be struck by how sympathetic this artist’s track was with another’s, and would imagine how wonderful if the distance between us became immaterial and these two, three or four could be playing in the same space and time. And well, given that we were dealing with recordings, why not? By using my own expertise and ear I could bring the individual tracks together, bring people into the same “room” as it were, and create wholly new and convincing works in the process.

Few of these tracks were altered in any drastic way, which is why I don‘t think of them as “remixes;” rather, most of the tracks heard here are left largely intact, simply laid over and against one another, with just some fades and general spatial processing applied. To me the process is much closer to ikebana -- the Japanese art of flower-arranging. There’s an abstract element of storytelling at work, too, though the specific story told by the title came only after the piece was finished.

The pieces in this compilation function as a documentary. They're presented in strict chronological order, just as each was made and offered up from day-to-day and week-to-week. Some Sound-In weekends have a general suggestive "theme" -- just a word or two -- and some of that can be heard as we listen to the tracks in order. It's a rather monstrous collection, clocking in at almost 3.5 hours, but full of variety and color. What's truly amazing is just how coherent these tracks, composed almost exclusively of chronologically and geographically unrelated solo improvisations, are. A lot of that is down to the endless creativity the participating musicians bring to each week's adventure. I admit to my own personality being strongly felt in each mash/mix. But I always try to preserve and show each of my fellow musician's voice in that mix as well.

-- Steve Layton / Seattle / 1 October 2018

Musicians: Benjamin Smith, Chris Vaisvil, Paul Mimlitsch, Paul Muller, Steve Layton, J.C. Combs, James Bailey, Jim Goodin, Roger Sundström, Shane Cadman, Kavin Allenson, Maria Ljungdahl, Bill Newbold, Jeff Fairbanks, Bruce Hamilton, Ken Ficara, Steve Moshier

Released October 1, 2018

Ever since we started this worldwide music-and-sound-sharing event known first as ImprovFriday and now Sound-In (www.sound-in.org), one of our most steadfast regulars has been Jim Goodin. Though long a Brooklyn resident and software programmer, Jim's roots come out of the hills and valleys of Arkansas. Though not afraid to use new technology in his music, when he picks up the guitar, oud, or fiddle, or maybe even sings a bit, what comes out has a simple sincerity, a bit of "artless art", that calls to mind that place he's come so far from, yet carries forever.

In the course of our Sound-In events, one of my main contributions is to gather some of the various improvised tracks that have come in that day, cobble them together into a mash-up that magically becomes an integral whole, and then slap my own title onto that result. Way back when, while making one of these mash-ups that happened to strongly feature Jim Goodin playing, my mind keyed on the old song "The Arkansas Traveler". The Appalachian idea of The Traveler seemed to just jibe naturally with whatever vibe Jim's playing was giving off, and did again and again during subsequent Sound-In events. So was born my own fuzzy mythology of our Traveler, as represented by Jim's music and voice.

Over the years, there grew to be quite a number of "Traveler" pieces from these mash-ups, and I thought it might be a good idea to collect them into a single album; to let other listeners wander through this modern-day-set of sonic folktales. Though these are mash-ups of contributed tracks from many different musicians all over the country and world, working in all sorts of styles, the common thread of Jim's improvisations pulls them all into a weird sort of Americana. Admittedly an Americana that all kinds of other universes, ghosts and even monsters leak through the cracks, but Americana nonetheless.

This is a long collection; the length of a feature film, really. So maybe it's best to approach it as such, a collection of scenes, actions, atmospheres, that somehow tell the story of our Traveler.

Released November 8, 2015

All tracks feature Jim Goodin as performer, and are mashed/mixed by Steve Layton. The other Sound-In musicians heard here (listed separately with each track's info) are: Johnny Porto & Faith Young, Chris Vaisvil, Shane Cadman, Adam Kondor, Steve Moshier, Kavin Allenson, Gaetano Fontanazza, James Ross, Gérald Degroote, Benjamin Smith, Richard Sanderson, Jukka-Pekka Kervinen, Roger Sundström, Steve Moyes, Jeff Fairbanks, J.C. Combs, Paul H. Muller, Jeff Duke, Paul Mimlitsch, Glenn Smith, Fabio Keiner, Ojo Taylor, and William Newbold.

A collection of mash-ups and mixes from the first half of 2016, made during the weekly web event at Sound-In.org.

Dedicated to our long-time member and music-mate, Steve Moshier. R.I.P.

Musicians: Benjamin Smith, James Bailey, Bill Newbold, Roger Sundström, Shane Cadman, Norbert Oldani, Kavin Allenson, J.C. Combs, Jeff Fairbanks, Paul Mimlitsch, Jim Goodin, Chris Vaisvil, Paul H. Muller, Christiane Offenbar, Steve Layton

All mash-up/remixing, mastering and titling: Steve Layton

Released July 24, 2016

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Hamilton Duke Moyes Layton Badlands

layton allenson kondor poirier oldani - overheard

layton allenson sundstrom cadman muller fairbanks kervinen - starburst

layton becker noyes goodin cadman palmer - why it all matters

layton cadman bailey chorale

layton cadman noyes moyes duke overland

layton cadman sundstrom vaisvil duke goodin - voices in the stones

layton degroote izzo perreko moshier cadman sundstrom poirier thorn

layton fairbanks duke fontanazza cadman kervinen - outward

layton fontanazza goodin porto ross degroote - full moon traveler

layton goodin thorn combs weyant - restless sleep

layton hamilton noyes sundstrom goodin - the ties that break or bind

layton hertz palmer weyant moshier kondor - enchantments

layton izzo fontanazza duke lainhart - desert highway

layton johnny&faith smith hamilton kervinen - forecast cloudy

layton mmcance muller ross smith - cerulean blue

layton muller hentai kervinen sundstrom oldani - atahualpa

layton muller noyes sundstromx2 - the last angel

layton muller smith johnny&faith allenson - journey

ImprovFriday mash-ups featuring:

Steve Moyes (UK), Bruce Hamilton (WA), Steve Moshier (CA), Peter Thrn (SE), Roger Sundstrm (SE), Lee Noyes (NZ), J.C. Combs (WA), Jrme Poirier (FR), Richard Sanderson (UK), Kavin Allenson (TX), Norbert Oldani (NY), Shane W. Cadman (CA), Adam Kondor (HU), Paul Muller (CA), Kenneth Palmer (MO), Andrew McCance (UK), Jeff Duke (FL), Steve Layton (TX), Benjamin Smith (NJ), David Perreko (ES), Greg Hooper (AU), John Asta (NY), Tom Izzo (CT), Paul Hertz (IA), Jim Goodin (NY), Phil Hargreaves (UK), Johnny & Faith Porto (PA), Glenn Weyant (AZ), Paul Bailey (CA), Todd Lainhart (MA), Jeff Fairbanks (MD), The Hentai Improvising Orchestra (TX), Joseph Benzola (NY), James Ross (NY), Gaetano Fontanazza (IT), Chris Becker (TX), Jukka-Pekka Kervinen (FI), Doug Kolmar (ME), Chris Vaisvil (IN), Grald DeGroote (FR)

Mixed by Steve Layton

Since early 2009, various musicians around the world have checked in weekly at a web site known as ImprovFriday (http://improvfriday.ning.com). From Thursday afternoon (US Pacific time) through Saturday evening, any and all are free to share newly composed or improvised tracks, hear each other's work, discuss and connect.

Part of my own working style these past 30 years is the mash-up, remix, or audio collage. Never being much of a live performer, averse to microphones and limited in the equipment I could call my "studio," I've often resorted to integrating (or sometimes, dissembling) others' recorded music and sound into newly composed pieces of my own.

Improvisation is often performed solo, but just as often as a group venture. At ImprovFriday we had many great solo tracks being offered up; yet many times I'd be struck by how sympathetic this artist's track was with another's, and would imagine how wonderful if the distance between us became immaterial and these two, three or four could be playing in the same space and time. And well, given that we were dealing with recordings, why not? By using my own expertise I could bring the individual tracks together, bring people into the same "room" as it were, and create wholly new and convincing works in the process.

A very few of these tracks were altered in any drastic way, which is why I don't think of them as "remixes;" rather, most of the tracks heard here are left largely intact, simply laid over and against one another, with just some fades and general spatial processing applied (all of the mash-ups were made using only Adobe Audition as my "instrument"). To me the process is much closer to ikebana -- the Japanese art of flower-arranging. There's an abstract element of storytelling at work, too, though the specific story told by the title came only after the piece was finished.

In the spirit of the improvisation that so many of these tracks were first performed and recorded in, I chose to work only with tracks offered up during that particular session, and I also chose to try and create each new mash-up within the span of a half-hour to and hour, no more, from the selection of source tracks to the posting of the final mix. I wanted to give a sense of coherence and real interplay, but also to leave as much of their individual voices and free spirits intact as well.

I owe a huge debt of gratitude to these wonderful musicians (all now friends); in the end, whatever I've been able to do here is only made possible by the creativity and musicianship that each of them has shown and shared.

-- Steve Layton / Pompano Beach, FL / March 2011

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layton noyes cadman sundstrom moyes hargreaves - the moment we opened our eyes

layton noyes oldani smith sanderson - the rabbit who talked with the moon

layton oldani kondor hamilton muller thorn - the world turning

layton oldani kondor thorn kervinen - in a landscape

layton palmer smith moshier oldani - die wunderkammer

layton poirier hamilton noyes muller palmer thorn - breakthrough and stillness

layton poirier kondor combs sirenes

layton poirier noyes ross moyes benzola - cracks

layton smith kondor sundstrom poirier - walking in circles

layton smith muller hamilton poirier combs benzola kolmar asta - blood moon

layton smith oldani palmer - summer nights on the fire escape

layton sundstrom duke hamilton oldani - at the heart of things

layton sundstrom noyes hamilton kondor kervinen duke - the dream and the chase

layton sundstrom smith cadman thorn - bali hai

layton sundstrom thorn goodin fairbanks hamilton poirier&noyes - duple duple triple

layton vaisvil izzo combs muller - the golden ones

noyes hooper layton - argo navis

smith kondor kervinen cadman layton

ImprovFriday mash-ups featuring:

Steve Moyes (UK), Bruce Hamilton (WA), Steve Moshier (CA), Peter Thrn (SE), Roger Sundstrm (SE), Lee Noyes (NZ), J.C. Combs (WA), Jrme Poirier (FR), Richard Sanderson (UK), Kavin Allenson (TX), Norbert Oldani (NY), Shane W. Cadman (CA), Adam Kondor (HU), Paul Muller (CA), Kenneth Palmer (MO), Andrew McCance (UK), Jeff Duke (FL), Steve Layton (TX), Benjamin Smith (NJ), David Perreko (ES), Greg Hooper (AU), John Asta (NY), Tom Izzo (CT), Paul Hertz (IA), Jim Goodin (NY), Phil Hargreaves (UK), Johnny & Faith Porto (PA), Glenn Weyant (AZ), Paul Bailey (CA), Todd Lainhart (MA), Jeff Fairbanks (MD), The Hentai Improvising Orchestra (TX), Joseph Benzola (NY), James Ross (NY), Gaetano Fontanazza (IT), Chris Becker (TX), Jukka-Pekka Kervinen (FI), Doug Kolmar (ME), Chris Vaisvil (IN), Grald DeGroote (FR)

Mixed by Steve Layton

Since early 2009, various musicians around the world have checked in weekly at a web site known as ImprovFriday (http://improvfriday.ning.com). From Thursday afternoon (US Pacific time) through Saturday evening, any and all are free to share newly composed or improvised tracks, hear each other's work, discuss and connect.

Part of my own working style these past 30 years is the mash-up, remix, or audio collage. Never being much of a live performer, averse to microphones and limited in the equipment I could call my "studio," I've often resorted to integrating (or sometimes, dissembling) others' recorded music and sound into newly composed pieces of my own.

Improvisation is often performed solo, but just as often as a group venture. At ImprovFriday we had many great solo tracks being offered up; yet many times I'd be struck by how sympathetic this artist's track was with another's, and would imagine how wonderful if the distance between us became immaterial and these two, three or four could be playing in the same space and time. And well, given that we were dealing with recordings, why not? By using my own expertise I could bring the individual tracks together, bring people into the same "room" as it were, and create wholly new and convincing works in the process.

A very few of these tracks were altered in any drastic way, which is why I don't think of them as "remixes;" rather, most of the tracks heard here are left largely intact, simply laid over and against one another, with just some fades and general spatial processing applied (all of the mash-ups were made using only Adobe Audition as my "instrument"). To me the process is much closer to ikebana -- the Japanese art of flower-arranging. There's an abstract element of storytelling at work, too, though the specific story told by the title came only after the piece was finished.

In the spirit of the improvisation that so many of these tracks were first performed and recorded in, I chose to work only with tracks offered up during that particular session, and I also chose to try and create each new mash-up within the span of a half-hour to and hour, no more, from the selection of source tracks to the posting of the final mix. I wanted to give a sense of coherence and real interplay, but also to leave as much of their individual voices and free spirits intact as well.

I owe a huge debt of gratitude to these wonderful musicians (all now friends); in the end, whatever I've been able to do here is only made possible by the creativity and musicianship that each of them has shown and shared.

-- Steve Layton / Pompano Beach, FL / March 2011

CC 3.0 All works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.

NiwoSound: www.niwo.com/niwosound

A compilation of 20 mash-up mixes created by Steve Layton, from tracks contributed in October and November 2012 to the weekly worldwide online Sound-In event (www.sound-in.org).

Released 25 December 2012

Musicians & tracks they appear on: Roger Sundström: 1, 7, 10, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19 // Glenn Smith: 1, 4, 6, 9, 15, 16 // Kavin Allenson: 2, 5, 18 // Benjamin Smith: 2, 6, 13, 14 // Richard Sanderson: 2 // Paul Muller: 2, 11 // Jeff Duke: 2, 14, 18, 20 // Jim Goodin: 2, 7, 8, 20 // Chris Vaisvil: 2, 4, 13, 16, 19, 20 // Jeff Fairbanks: 3, 7, 8, 9, 15, 19 // Lydia Busler-Blais: 3, 6, 15 // Paul Mimlitsch: 5, 10, 12, 15, 17, 20 // Johnny & Faith: 6 // Canary Burton: 6, 8 // Christiane Offenbar: 7, 15 // Gérald DeGroote: 9 // Steve Moshier: 10 // Shane Cadman: 11, 15 // Steve Layton: 12 // Jude Cowan: 12 // Norbert Oldani: 14 // Diego Monroy: 18

A collection of mash-ups and remixes from May-Aug 2020 by Steve Layton, from tracks offered up at the weekly online improvisation & music-sharing web event known as Sound-In.

Musicians: Kavin Allenson, Jim Goodin, Shane Cadman, Bill Newbold, Benjamin Smith, Chris Vaisvil, Roger Sundström, Jeff Fairbanks, James Bailey, Steve Layton

All tracks mashed and mixed by Steve Layton, using Reason 10 and Audacity.

Released 2020-08-08

A compilation of mash-ups made during the weekly online event Sound-In (www.sound-in.org), between 2012 and 2015.

All mashes, remixing, and production by Steve Layton.

Musicians: Benjamin Smith, Paul Mimlitsch, Kavin Allenson, Chris Vaisvil, Bruce Hamilton, Shane Cadman, Norbert Oldani, Eric Gross, Steve Moshier, James Bailey, Paul Muller, Ojo Taylor, Jim Goodin, Roger Sundström, Steve Moyes, Kevin Martin, Jeff Duke, Steve Layton, William Newbold

Cover art: Ivana Kalezic / ivanushka.see.me

Compilation of mash-up/mixes made by Steve Layton, of tracks performed and recorded by the "Sound-In" online music-sharing community (www.facebook.com/groups/improvfriday/).

Released 2020-01-02

All mash-ups / mixes by Steve Layton

Voice on track 14: Marvin Rosen

Musicians: Chris Vaisvil, Shane Cadman, Bruce Hamilton, Kawol Samarkandi, Fabio Keiner, Steve Layton, Jim Goodin, Roger Sundström, J.C. Combs, James Bailey, Kavin Allenson, Bill Newbold, Paul Mimlitsch, Benjamin Smith, Jeff Fairbanks, Glenn Smith, Joan Punyet, Jukka-Pekka Kervinen, Paul H. Muller

A collection of mash-ups and remixes by Steve Layton, from September 2012 to December 2013, utilizing tracks submitted by members of Sound-In -- a weekly, worldwide online event for sharing music and improvisation at www.sound-in.org.

Released 09 December 2013

Featured musicians by track: Roger Sundström (1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12); Chris Vaisvil (1, 4, 13); Jeff Duke (1, 2, 9); James Bailey (2, 7); Johnny & Faith (2, 5); Shane Cadman (3); Steve Moyes (3); Paul Muller (4, 7, 12, 13); Paul Mimlitsch (4, 5, 9, 11, 13); Eric Gross (4, 12, 13); Jim Goodin (4); Steve Moshier (5, 6, 11, 12); Kavin Allenson (5, 8, 9, 11, 13); J.C. Combs (5); Bruce Hamilton (6, 7, 11); Kawol Samarkand (6, 9, 10); Benjamin Smith (7, 12); Christiane Offenbar (7, 8); Glenn Smith (10); William V. Newbold (11, 13); Steve Layton (12)