Etudes (Jessica Leza) To be notified when new music or film is added to this page, check out the alarana.net mailing list. é-tude - [ey-tood, ey-tyood, ey-tood, ey-tyood; Fr. ey-tyd] –noun, plural é-tudes [ey-tyoodz; Fr. ey-tyd] 1. a musical composition, usually instrumental, intended mainly for the practice of some point of technique. 2. study. (Vocals, guitar, banjo, bass, harp, keys, gourd recorder, mixing, editing, and video: Jessica Leza) No mic stands were abused in the making or propagating of these recordings. ...Actually, no mic stands were used in the making or propagating of these recordings.

Introduction: harp (G. Lit); (2005) 3'36" (3466KB) Ctrl-Click and 'Download Linked File' (Mac) or Rt-Click and 'Save Target As' (PC) the link above. Samples: Conet Project Recordings Watch the Video (feat. Fenghuang, China)	II. Music for the Flea Circus (your ear is in the bottle) sound collage (2007) 2'35" (2480KB) Ctrl-Click and 'Download Linked File' (Mac) or Rt-Click and 'Save Target As' (PC) the link above. Samples included from the 1956 CBS Radio Workshop production of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. You can listen to the entire production, narrated by Huxley himself, online via the Seeing Eye Theater.
III. (two)Hands. voice and guitar, j.leza (2004) 1'43" (1657KB) Ctrl-Click and 'Download Linked File' (Mac) or Rt-Click and 'Save Target As' (PC) the link above. I don't don't know your name, and I don't want to play this game: two hands on either side... I'm in the open, nowhere to hide... There's noone there.
	IV. Trains voice, guitars, j.leza (2003) 1'30" (KB) I don't like trains,... so harsh, so fast. but sometimes at night I hear trains rushing, and they cry out. The nearest trains so far away...

V Black Coffee Sonny Burke, lyrics Paul Francis Webster (1948) voice, electronics, guitars, harp, j.leza (2006) Watch the video: swing shift video: Caracas, Venezuela (m.leza & b.leza) I'm feelin' kind of lonesome, haven't slept a wink. I walk the floor and watch the door, and in between I drink black coffee. Love's a hand-me-down brew. I'll never know a Sunday in this weekday rue. Been talkin' to the shadows one o'clock 'till four, and lord how slow the moments go when all i do is pour black coffee. Since the blues caught my eye I'm hanging out on Monday, my Sunday dreams too dry.
	VI. Mitosis voice, guitars, j.leza (2005) 1'59" (1435KB) Ctrl-Click and 'Download Linked File' (Mac) or Rt-Click and 'Save Target As' (PC) the link above. Somewhere in my body two cells are dividing: from one comes two, and I didn't see it coming, though it happens every day, in some sick internal way. So call the fire department. I'm jumping out this window just to get away. On one hand is you, dear, on the other hand it's me here, and you're the one who went away. Come home and see me change. Enter fake hypnosis, a cellular mitosis. Dont choke on life, it's not loss when a cell divides in two.
VII. It's Not Easy voice, guitars, harp, j.leza (2004) Ctrl-Click and 'Download Linked File' (Mac) or Rt-Click and 'Save Target As' (PC) the link above. Watch the video: swing shift I know it's not easy...	VIII: Technology (music for performance art) (excerpts from Brave New World Radio adaptation) production, j.leza (2003)

IX: Favorite Stranger voice, Chinese banjo & gourd recorder, j.leza (2005) 2'54" (2798KB) Ctrl-Click and 'Download Linked File' (Mac) or Rt-Click and 'Save Target As' (PC) the link above. A bit of a joke, this one... This is a message, a transmission succulently succinctly sealed in successions of zeros and ones. I've got sand in my eyes and I can't see farther than next week. I want you to be my favorite stranger. Let's stay out until tomorrow. I will build you an igloo made of little pink erasers. We will be inside until we become friends and then you can kick down our little home and erase me. I want you to be my favorite stranger. Let's stay out until tomorrow. X.Julian's song in memory, JRC voice, guitar, j.leza, (2002) Ctrl-Click and 'Download Linked File' (Mac) or Rt-Click and 'Save Target As' (PC) the link above. Lyrics unavailable.

XI. Invitation to Choke

voice.keys.electronics.all production, j.leza (2006) Download mp3 here 1'05" (1045KB) Ctrl-Click and 'Download Linked File' (Mac) or Rt-Click and 'Save Target As' (PC) the link above. Baby, I'm going to forget my life with you. Baby, I'm going to forget you never were true. All the things you did and all the things you do, baby, you better be glad I'm not comin' for you. I know some you say you're young and thus innocent, but baby, mess with me and what a pinch you'll be in. I can be sweet as sugar, and I can be cold as ice, Baby you better listen, 'cause I ain't gonna tell you twice. Stay away from me. I have got a gun, and I don't have no patience for what you've done.

XII. Sterilization Room
electroaccoustic (2003)
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Original Title: Involuntary Sterilization

Rough.Days/Green.Thumbs feat. Gabe Lit (2006)

Heavy.Price: practicum(2006)

Lemon Trees: practicum (2005)

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