Session 11: Weird Dogs

Weird Dogs

Don’t let your creativity go to the dogs! Join us for this Endless Beautiful Workshop recorded at the Marlborough Public Library in Marlborough, MA. Sounds Copper Basket Chains Laughing Gulls and Black Skimmers Heating Water on Gas Stove Singing in the Shower Weird Dogs Carolyn Talks to Pigeons and is Drowned Out by Horrible Machines Lucas’s Result Big Win He pulled the big silver lever with a red ball on the end. Two gold nuggets and a spade. Damn. C’mon these slots must be rigged. “How does Yancy always catch a break on these things?” Wondered Buford. It had all…

Session 10: Bike Pump

Bike Pump

Pump up your creativity with us at this session recorded in Attleboro, MA for On Common Ground and MLK Day! Sounds Walking Sandy Short Brush Bathtub Bubbles Approaching Beaver Dam Crunching Packing Paper Bike Pump Spinning Quarters Sand Wheel Loading the Wood Stove Petting Zoo Kicking Leaves Lucas’s Result Swamp Sam had been walking for three days. His feet hurt. They hurt real bad. Worse than he had ever felt. Which wasn’t that surprising, considering he spent most of his adult days sitting behind a computer at work or watching family comedies at night. Hmmmm. What was this? A swamp…

Session 9: Electric Fence

West Warwick Electric Fence

Charge up your creativity with this workshop recorded live at the West Warwick Public Library in Rhode Island! Sounds Coffee Maker Chicago O’Hare Gate Background Shakey Paperweight Rubber Band Basement Sink Electric Fence Outdoor Wind Chime in Maine Playground Blocks Zipping Suitcase Lucas’s Result “Start the damn thing!” “Ack, why can’t this thing ever work like it’s supposed to?” “Do you even know how it’s supposed to work?” “Well, no, probably not.” “Where do you think the oil goes?” “I don’t know, somewhere dark, deep, that kind of thing” “You think something really lives down there?” “Naw….well, maybe. I don’t…

Session 8: Hooper Brook Pond

Hooper Brook Pond

Paddle out into the reservoir of creativity! Sounds Rowing on Hooper Brook Pond Bhutanese Brass Wind Chime Tater Cannons Mule and Goat Eating Breaking Bark Church Bells Wind Tunnel One Stringed Mystery Splashing in a Puddle Pellet Stove Lucas’s Result Blank Sal I told you to put that damn camera away. Don’t be such a fuss Blank. I’m telling you, I need you to be watching out. You heard what they said about the Reservoir. “Oh C’mon Sal. That’s some stupid shit and you know it.” “Well, I’d rather….what the hell was that?” “What?” “Your camera. Take your camera and…

Session 7: Campfire

Campfire

Bring your creative kindling to our campfire! Sounds Campfire Flipping a Washer Under an Umbrella Forest Adventures Playground Xylophone Sharpening a Knife Bali Mynah Playground Blocks Thanksgiving Table Practicing Piano Toy Phone Dictionary Pages Lucas’s Result Contour and Consequence Smoke, smoke, smoke. The man with the fire is a good man. I can hear the purple heat. It’s all curled and wavy like the sea. I wish I knew where the beacon had fallen. Maybe the man knows. He’s good, but not good enough to keep me away. To have been born in the morning was a mistake. All I…

Session 6: Singing Bowl

Singing Bowl

Join us in this workshop to find your creative voice! Sounds Tibetan Singing Bowl Elliptical Machine Beer Bottle Pipes Fall Bugs Sweeping Dirt Grocery Store Interior Rain Gutter Shuffling Cards Wooden Bridge Footsteps Dictionary Pages Lucas’s Result Night Out The ground began ringing the day before last. Not like a telephone ring or a big computer or anything like that, more like the sound you get when something old and pure rubs together. I guess that makes sense, being that it’s coming from the ground. You don’t get much more old and pure than that. A lot of folks are…

Session 5: Digging in the Forest

Digging in the Forest

Join us in this Endless Beautiful session as we dig for creative treasure! Sounds Intro – Rotten Tree Fall Ratchet Digging in the Forest Conch Shell Fail Fall Afternoon Rain Shower Wind Up Cars Outside Hose Stick Tapping on Log Closing – Washing Dishes Lucas’s Result Back Forty The metal burns my hands. Not the skin. I can feel the purple curling around my veins, up behind my eyes. I watched my brother dig a hole for three weeks once. He said he was digging to Antarctica. I told him was stupid, that the way he was digging led to…

Session 4: Cordless Drill

Cordless Drill Creativity

Tighten up the screws on your next creative project! Sounds Intro – Hammering Nails Cordless Drill Boiling Hot Pot Colored Pencils Hurricane Hermine Music Box Playing Edelweiss Cutting Paper with Scissors Closing – Tape Measure Behind the Sounds – Cordless Drill Lucas’s Result Day 15: The drilling has gone nonstop for the past two weeks. Nothing up to this point. We thought we had struck a vein once or twice, but it was more our gold-greedy imaginations than reality. It’s noisy down here. At least I think it is. After the first few days, I lost track of what noisy…

Session 3: Lighting Matches

Lighting Matches

Join us in this session and heat up your creativity! Sounds Intro – Wickford Harbor Lights Festival Rev Up Scrabble Tiles Laundry Load and Start Lighting Matches Cooking Breakfast Lawnmower Throwing Rocks in Water Closing – Guitar Strings Lucas’s Result Paper Horses “So, let’s pick up where you left off Mr. Pek, you were riding the high-speed, and they were stacking ice in the cabin next to you….” “Yes, well, I called it ice, but that isn’t what it actually was.” “No?” “No, they were blocks, more like bricks, that looked like ice, they even let off that cool steam…

Session 2: Suburban Night

Suburban Night

Concrete and crickets. Can you feel that cool summer’s night air? Sounds Intro – Dogs Barking Interior American Indian Federation Drum Circle RISD Museum Bella the Cat Pouring Wine Suburban Night Shower More RISD Museum Starlings Closing – Grocery Checkout Lucas’s Result Prayer  Call to the heavens young one. Now is the time for giving, and they have given you the blood and the bones, and the power to lament in the hollow catacombs of our collective soul. Speak not, not because it is impolite, but because they are listening – the walls, the clack of heels, and silent photos…