Biography

Mungo is a music project by a guy named Bill in Virginia. I like to experiment and wish to inspire musicians to create more interesting music. My music-sharing philosophy is to provide my works-in-progress because I may get hit by a bus tomorrow.

Many of these are sketches that serve as memories of motifs, instrument juxtapositions, textures and rhythms I might want to incorporate/refine into more structured pieces. After I update these, I usually leave the earlier versions available to keep comments and allow others the opportunity to listen to the evolution of my musical ideas and read previous listeners' comments. Also, in the case of potential collaborations, less contribution from me in a sketch leaves more space for contribution from collaborators.

My instrument-playing skills are rudimentary: I consider myself more of a sound artist than a performer. Much of my music is abstract, ambient, psychedelic, experimental. I am fond of drones, repetition and distortion.

My listening interests are more varied and include pop, soul, doo wop, hip hop, jazz, blues, folk, funk, electronica, contemporary classical, psychedelic, art rock, post rock, electroacoustic, drone metal, noise, ambient, dub, reggae, punk, new wave, no wave, soundtracks, qawwali, raga, Celtic, fado, gamelan, samba, and other music from around the world. I prefer instrumentals.

More often than not when I hear a singing voice, I don't bother to try to understand the lyrics. I hear the voice more as an instrument than as a conveyer of semantics.

Current personal favorites include
Ghost Wharf
Memor
SunShine of My Dreams
Lobe
Faint
No More
InEvitable
Once Around
UnSettler
Missing
Lamb To The Slaughter
Depth of Character
Hypnagogia
Montaña de la Muerte
Absolution
Clear and Grey
Nerve Ending
The Naught Before

Not all of the Mungo pieces are visible on this page, but if you want a fuller list, here you go.

Death Nougat is the name of a strictly loop-oriented music project by Bill. Death Nougat tracks are identified as collaborations with Mungo in order to get them on the Mungo podcast.

Blog rss

ForSook, ForGone and ForLorn August 21, 2011
Experiment in using the same basic music to create three pieces
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I Can Make You All Famous and Well Known May 11, 2011
Not only famous, but famous AND well known.
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Jazz Rock Fusion October 18, 2010
Inspired by Dr. Elvis's blog entry
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What Happens If I Do This? October 2, 2009
I'm just curious, that's all.
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Music rss

Title Genre Released Plays
Clear and Grey Ambient Sep 29, 2009 491
Waves 6 Ambient Nov 16, 2008 345
Angel Ambient Jan 23, 2008 826
The Waiting Room (Sketch) Ambient Sep 8, 2008 606
Whatcha Gonna Do? (Extended) Alternative Mar 25, 2008 418
Ante Partum Ambient Oct 12, 2008 647
RePose World Nov 11, 2008 527
Motherless Child (1924 Version) Spiritual/Gospel Nov 11, 2008 817
Waves 8 Ambient Nov 16, 2008 320
NumberebmuN Ambient Nov 24, 2008 397
The Dark Shimmering Ambient Nov 30, 2008 728
For Loren (v2) Ambient Dec 20, 2008 483
Unfinished Business (Revised) Ambient Jan 21, 2009 714
Crepúsculo (Sketch) World Feb 18, 2009 276
Relentless Suspension (Sketch) Electronica Feb 11, 2009 740
Counterproductive Beliefs (Sketch) Rock Feb 10, 2009 511
Satelliticide (Sketch) Ambient Feb 11, 2009 449
ReBirth (Rev 2) Ambient Feb 16, 2009 252
Orange Pillow (Sketch) Jazz Feb 18, 2009 483
Conlon (Sketch) Classical Feb 23, 2009 343
Day or Night Pop Feb 25, 2009 607
I Can Dream (Sketch) Pop Mar 11, 2009 203
Death Perception (v2) Ambient Sep 21, 2009 316
Knell (Sketch) Ambient Jan 11, 2010 356
Bad For You Too (v2) Electronica Mar 30, 2010 671
Mirage 2 Ambient Mar 20, 2011 256
Slow Rain Glows Ambient Aug 14, 2010 386
SunShine of My Dreams (Sketch) Rock Jul 21, 2010 486
A Matter of Time (v2) Other Sep 8, 2010 353
SootheSayer (sketch) Ambient May 4, 2011 190
Option L (v1) Other Nov 16, 2010 362
Grave Robbers From Outer Space (v4) Other Feb 8, 2011 402
The Naught Before Other Feb 16, 2011 186
I'll Best Be On My Way (v2) Other Feb 16, 2011 196
Weave (sketch) Other Jul 27, 2011 183
Questions Other Oct 15, 2011 105
Shine (sketch) Electronica Oct 17, 2011 143
When Time Flies (sketch) Electronica Oct 25, 2011 150
Don't Mistake Your Hat For A Wife Electronica Nov 10, 2008 641
Blood on Snow (sketch) Other Feb 2, 2011 213
Even Number (Video Mix) Ambient Jul 13, 2007 786
InGlorious Noise (Video Mix) Industrial Jul 14, 2007 623
Function of Availability (ReMix) Electronica Oct 21, 2007 757
Montaña de la Muerte Metal Sep 9, 2007 930
Hinterlands of Ashburn (video soundtrack) Other Sep 5, 2007 759
Tuesday Morning Ambient Dec 27, 2007 751
Response Ambient Mar 22, 2008 506
Apart From Ambient Apr 5, 2008 679
Preventative Idiot Dance Other Apr 5, 2008 314
Faint Ambient Aug 28, 2010 394
In Extremis Ambient Oct 11, 2008 578
Waves 7 Ambient Nov 16, 2008 346
Waves 10 Ambient Nov 16, 2008 362
Eight (Ritual 0) Ambient Oct 28, 2008 453
Waves 9 Ambient Nov 16, 2008 300
Waves 2 Ambient Nov 16, 2008 407
The Innocents Cry (Sketch) Industrial Dec 12, 2008 488
El Templo al Anochecer Ambient Nov 27, 2008 479
Sempiternal Ambient Nov 27, 2008 593
InEvitable (Blood Mix) Ambient Dec 14, 2008 763
Mirage 3 Ambient Mar 20, 2011 191
Out of My Way (Sketch) Other Feb 22, 2009 306
Crash (Sketch) Other Jan 5, 2009 245
Gargantua Ambient Dec 30, 2008 351
Here Comes Plaything (Sketch) Electronica Feb 9, 2009 383
Something Different (Sketch) Other Feb 8, 2009 280
Breathe (Sketch) Other Feb 8, 2009 319
Breathe Again (Sketch) Ambient Feb 20, 2009 377
Train to Jersey (Sketch) Alternative Mar 9, 2009 683
The Leak Jazz Jun 10, 2009 380
Church of Lost Dreams (Sketch) Ambient May 14, 2009 395
Aspiration New Age Jun 8, 2009 376
Purify A Ambient Sep 6, 2009 372
First Shade of Grey Ambient Sep 27, 2009 385
The Dark Sun (Revised) Industrial Sep 5, 2009 406
Purify C Ambient Sep 6, 2009 331
Asceticism (v2) Other Nov 2, 2009 381
Nova Unit Ambient Nov 28, 2009 380
What Tonight Might Bring (v1) Other Nov 29, 2009 479
Memor v1 Ambient Sep 12, 2011 124
Whatcha Gonna Do? (2009) Rock Dec 6, 2009 301
UnLoosen (v1) Ska/Reggae/Dub Dec 8, 2009 451
ElseWhere (NoWhere Edit 1) Other Feb 8, 2010 195
ReProach (sketch) Other Jul 17, 2010 323
Hypnagogia (v2) Ambient Mar 9, 2010 312
Banter (v2) Jazz Sep 26, 2011 145
Maison de Zombies v1 World Jul 27, 2010 814
What Not To Do (sketch) Ambient Aug 15, 2010 246
Just So Ambient Sep 5, 2010 327
Quandary (sketch) Other Apr 3, 2011 197
Altared States v1 World Sep 5, 2010 333
End The Dream Other Aug 18, 2010 357
ReBirth (2010) Ambient Sep 14, 2010 329
None Too Soon (revised) Ambient May 22, 2011 165
Adjusted Other Jun 5, 2011 173
When Time Flies (revised) Electronica Oct 26, 2011 105
ForLorn (v1) Ambient Aug 19, 2011 169
SunnDazed Memories Other May 8, 2011 190
Vigil v1 Other May 7, 2011 154
Octopus Ambulance Other Nov 22, 2011 246
Herald (v2) Other Jul 7, 2011 177
Banter (sketch) Jazz Sep 25, 2011 113
47 Ways to Freak Out (sketch) Rock Nov 13, 2011 137
Pulse Other Oct 9, 2011 103
Missing (v2) Electronica Nov 7, 2011 101
Don't Touch That (sketch) Classical Nov 12, 2011 90
Flicker (revised) Ambient Sep 20, 2009 395
Prophet of Doom (Sketch) Other Feb 13, 2009 424
In Zone M (Sketch) Other Feb 21, 2009 193
InEvitable Ambient Jul 21, 2007 1019
Wanting, Waiting Ambient Sep 17, 2007 1007
Blue Fungus Ambient Mar 22, 2008 937
Waves 3 Ambient Nov 16, 2008 293
Arabesk (2008) Ambient Apr 23, 2008 807
Bola Stars (Sketch) World Feb 1, 2009 899
Waves 1 Ambient Nov 16, 2008 333
The Robots Are OK, I Think Electronica Oct 2, 2008 367
Waves 5 Ambient Nov 16, 2008 450
UnTold Ambient Jan 10, 2009 453
The Dying Light (Sketch) Ambient Feb 1, 2009 434
Point of No Return (Sketch) Rock Feb 14, 2009 480
Church of Lost Dreams Ambient May 16, 2009 465
Softly (Sketch) Classical Jul 20, 2009 454
Anchovies Daunt Wolf Ambient Oct 2, 2009 433
Shades of Grey Industrial Sep 29, 2009 407
darker sun Collab Metal Sep 5, 2009 345
Fourth Shade of Grey Ambient Sep 28, 2009 349
At First Ambient Oct 22, 2009 523
On Frontage Road Ambient Nov 14, 2009 274
Take The Next Left, Right? (v3) Other Nov 14, 2009 489
Only One (sketch) Ambient Jan 8, 2010 461
This Is The Way It Is (v1) Rock Feb 7, 2010 166
NoWhere (Sketch) Other Feb 7, 2010 162
Lobe (sketch) Electronica Sep 16, 2010 440
ForSook (v2) Ambient Aug 21, 2011 144
Mirage 1 Ambient Mar 20, 2011 222
Abandoned Ambient Feb 13, 2011 223
Broken (sketch) Other May 7, 2011 152
Lemon Drops Other Mar 13, 2011 228
Memor v2 Classical Sep 25, 2011 193
Fables (rev 1 of Foibles) Ambient Nov 28, 2011 99
ForGone (v1) Ambient Aug 19, 2011 142
UnAuthorized Other Jun 16, 2011 167
This Is The Way It Is (Final 2011) Rock Nov 1, 2011 151
Once Around Classical Dec 12, 2011 113
Demented (Sketch) Other Feb 20, 2009 389
Friday Afternoon Electronica Sep 21, 2007 800
Satisfying Fate (Primordial Sketch) Classical Jan 10, 2009 266
Reading is Fundamental Collab Other Mar 29, 2008 785
Leviathan Ambient Apr 20, 2008 844
All That Money Can't Buy Ambient Nov 15, 2009 358
(Transmission From) The Ice Cap Ambient Oct 5, 2008 597
Waves 4 Ambient Nov 16, 2008 316
Sentience (v1) Classical Jun 3, 2010 440
Ghost of 138 (Sketch) Industrial Feb 22, 2009 381
There Not Here (Sketch) Industrial Feb 12, 2009 458
Third Shade of Grey Ambient Sep 28, 2009 329
Ghost Wharf (v3) Alternative Nov 6, 2009 538
Eberswalde Delta v1 Blues Dec 21, 2009 408
Don't Be Sad (v1) Inspirational Dec 10, 2009 226
Roll Other Oct 8, 2011 88
UnSettler (v2) Other Nov 5, 2011 103
Perpetual Motion (Sketch) Rock Jun 27, 2010 370
Depth of Character v1 Other Oct 9, 2010 373
Window Ambient Aug 20, 2010 379
Lip Service (sketch) Other Feb 24, 2011 245
Lamb To The Slaughter (v2) Other Apr 18, 2011 430
ForSook (v1) Ambient Aug 19, 2011 127
Rumble Other Oct 8, 2011 97
Absolution Ambient Jun 7, 2009 501
Second Shade of Grey Ambient Sep 27, 2009 389
Sponto Afrilia (Sketch) Other Jan 4, 2009 420
Meditative Blues Ambient Dec 17, 2007 815
Passage Alternative Apr 5, 2008 801
Passage - Music Video Music Videos Jun 12, 2008 1161
She Walked Into My Life (Sketch) Jazz Nov 6, 2008 581
Conlon (Star Theatre 1902 Video) Music Videos May 24, 2009 499
Wounded Ambient Oct 9, 2011 171
Hinterlands Other May 9, 2008 729
No More Ambient Mar 7, 2008 879
Reprieve (Sketch) Ambient May 21, 2009 307
Nerve Ending Other Dec 6, 2009 1637
Glass Forest (Sketch) Ambient May 2, 2010 1225
Aliendigo Ambient Aug 2, 2010 1177
Snow on Cedar (sketch) Ambient Oct 1, 2011 299
Affront and Effront (v2) Other Jan 31, 2010 847
The Time We Take (v1) Ambient Jan 5, 2010 504
Belim (excerpt) Other Dec 23, 2011 203

Collaborations

Title Genre Released Plays
15 Seconds of Shame Other Mar 12, 2008 520
Insect Love Electronica Mar 1, 2009 359
Honey, I Found Your Sister Jazz Dec 18, 2007 686
Bury My Heart with Bended Fork World Feb 26, 2009 381
They Are Trying To Get Me Other Oct 10, 2007 470
Hinterlands of Ashburn Other Jan 1, 2008 977
Bone Grinder Punk Dec 19, 2007 571
Line of Fire Other Sep 26, 2009 292
Ned's Nasty Habit Comedy Feb 15, 2009 376
Toes of Deceit World Sep 17, 2008 397
Go With The Toe Inspirational Oct 12, 2008 494
Bologme Blues Feb 28, 2009 741
Fillet Du Nez Other Jan 28, 2009 352
One Wife, Hard-Boiled, and a Couple of Au Pairs, Lightly Buttered Comedy Feb 11, 2009 439
Bucket of Love Industrial Feb 8, 2009 498
AfroPhysics Other Feb 10, 2009 365
Decapitated Limbs Other Feb 17, 2009 718
Either a Criminal or An Idiot Other Feb 17, 2009 386
Hieronymous Borsch Classical Feb 18, 2009 464
Behavioural Problems Jazz Feb 25, 2009 420
Onitsha Electronica Mar 2, 2009 463
What's Goldie Hawn Doing in My Soup? Electronica Mar 4, 2009 504
Yanni Vangelis New Age Mar 6, 2009 348
Mowed the Lawn Today Other Mar 14, 2009 381
Pierce Your Doodads Dance Mar 11, 2009 426
Without the Possibility of Offending Ambient Mar 14, 2009 490
Countdown - Part 2 Other Sep 27, 2009 326
Police Story - Season 1 Other Sep 21, 2009 703
Hitler Had a Girly Skull Dance Sep 30, 2009 324
The Ten Year Honeymoon Other Sep 23, 2009 293
Sk00l Daze Other Sep 16, 2009 310
Requiem for an Informer Other Sep 23, 2009 324
Chain of Command Other Sep 27, 2009 391
Violent Homecoming Other Sep 23, 2009 334
The Ho Chi Min Trail Other Sep 23, 2009 337
Like a Duck to Cement Other Oct 6, 2009 317
Cop in the Middle Other Nov 16, 2009 335
Mom Knows Best Other Aug 24, 2011 205
Further Demented Other Oct 13, 2006 1421
Remote Goat Killing Other Aug 12, 2007 668
Yup Other Aug 11, 2007 566
Wanting, Waiting II Ambient Sep 23, 2007 1054
I Think That I Am Lost World Mar 9, 2009 317
Not Today, Maybe Tomorrow World Mar 9, 2009 327
A Collection of Knobs Childrens Mar 3, 2009 368
Funk U Funk Mar 3, 2009 362
Inevitable V4 Classical Mar 21, 2008 812
Jack Palance Folk Mar 30, 2008 483
Your Future's All Used Up Other Apr 6, 2008 588
Under The Fridge Ambient Jun 1, 2008 503
Terror of the Daffodils Childrens Jun 2, 2008 494
How to Make Love to an iPhone Industrial Jul 11, 2008 488
The And Electronica Aug 13, 2008 584
ingloiuoua Other Sep 8, 2008 451
Traitor Inside Your Skull Other Feb 20, 2009 324
Miles Jazz Feb 22, 2009 362
The Loin King Other Jan 17, 2009 620
Wash My Brain Other Feb 21, 2009 323
Bite My Lip Other Feb 9, 2009 428
Guilty as Sin Spoken Word Feb 16, 2009 481
Your Clothing is Insulting Other Feb 24, 2009 406
Mommy, Please Put Me in a Cage Other Mar 2, 2009 393
My Girl Has Fins World Mar 17, 2009 410
Musique Asphalte Industrial Mar 8, 2009 352
InAppropriate Electronica Mar 10, 2009 344
Merry Christmas and Then Holiday Mar 8, 2009 350
The Whale of London Ambient Mar 6, 2009 380
Suffusion Rules World Mar 7, 2009 385
I Am Not Who I Was Yesterday World Mar 7, 2009 344
Nonspecific Inferior Abnormalities Inspirational Mar 8, 2009 327
Frazzled Rock Jun 5, 2009 307
UnLoaded Other Jun 20, 2009 319
Man on a Rack Other Sep 26, 2009 305
Optical Cable Ambient Aug 7, 2009 366
Spider Electronica Sep 8, 2009 280
Dangerous Games Other Sep 22, 2009 400
Countdown - Part 1 Other Sep 27, 2009 391
Free iSlate Industrial Jan 5, 2010 529
Free iPads Electronica Jan 28, 2010 533
I'll Have a Double Industrial Feb 10, 2010 361
19 Minutes of White Noise Other Aug 24, 2010 315
Electronicanistas (Won't Let Me Go) Other Jun 4, 2011 159
Ssenisub Dehsinifer (featuring Mungo) Other Apr 1, 2006 1213
Remote Goat Killing - The Video Music Videos Aug 12, 2007 1176
Lost Other Aug 18, 2007 551
My Car is Broke Industrial Apr 26, 2008 514
Door of Fish Other May 26, 2008 541
Tower of Meat Other Dec 14, 2008 388
Toe of the Screaming Shrew Rock Sep 21, 2008 505
The Shadow Toes Other Sep 26, 2008 392
How Many Theories of Gravity are There? World Feb 26, 2009 348
Kiss My Tentacles Electronica Mar 1, 2009 386
Eye Stalker Other Jan 17, 2009 453
Sex With Madonna Dance Feb 12, 2009 547
Apocalypse Soon Other Feb 14, 2009 447
Do You Have a Problem With That? Rock Feb 27, 2009 387
Jessica Simpson is the Anti-Christ Alternative Mar 11, 2009 811
Repressed Memories of My Fallopian Tube Trauma Jazz Mar 4, 2009 895
I Don't Want To Mow The Lawn Today Ambient Mar 10, 2009 432
My Love is Like a Cardboard Box of Anchovies Other Sep 7, 2009 611
Slow Boy Other Sep 22, 2009 370
That's Nice, Dear Inspirational Feb 9, 2010 345
How About That Other Sep 6, 2010 354
Death on Credit Other Sep 24, 2009 400
Mungo's "NUMBer"--mystified Other Aug 24, 2006 1307
Now You Say I Need My Meds Other Dec 27, 2007 528
Collision Course Other Sep 24, 2009 360
All Will Die Childrens Sep 14, 2008 485
Frank Sinatra Pop Feb 12, 2009 356
Would You Like Me To Go To Hell? Rock Mar 5, 2009 373
The Big Walk Other Sep 25, 2009 347
Having The Time of Your Wife Comedy Mar 29, 2010 314
Your Inner Face Shall Ooze Dragon Drop Comedy Jul 7, 2010 1153
My Car is Not Broke Other May 10, 2008 505
Ever Vigilant Classical Feb 19, 2009 336
Monkey Azz Debt Other May 12, 2011 179
This is Hardcore Punk May 15, 2008 843
Bananas are a Good Source of Potassium Other Sep 7, 2009 1155
Tara Reid Needs a Spanking Punk Dec 19, 2007 1676
How About This Other Sep 6, 2010 307
Jessica Simpson Is Like Crack Cocaine Other Mar 20, 2010 858
Bad Potato Punk Feb 27, 2009 1424
Just Say Yes Other Apr 22, 2010 572