Sparkles and Lurky in Paris

Archival Ensembles (1992 – 2003)


Boston Improvisors’ Collective (1994 – 1996)
Bottom Feeder (1997)
Composer’s Orchestra (1995)
Equilibrium (1999)
Expansions (1994)
Leaping Water Trio (1992 – 1994)
Mental Notes (1996 – 1997)
Raqib Hassan (1993 – 1998)
Skysaw (2003)
Wind (1994 – 1999)


Fractal Music (1994 – 1995)


Archival Ensembles

Martha Ritchey was my fractal partner in the 90s. She was a gifted pianist who attended Berklee while I was there in 1991-1992 as an older student who had already been a professional musician for many years. She helped with managing and promoting both Masashi Harada and me for years in the early 90s. We spent a huge amount of time together making fractals which were used in a number of ways at the time and which still serve as a core element of the Evil Clown brand. She never regularly played in any of my working bands in the period, but we did do these 4 CDs of performance with Fractal Video accompaniment as a duet and with my Tower Records pal Thom Jones who greatly broadened my taste to include industrial and other experimental musics which were a bit more on the pop culture side.

PEK – 11/25/2023

Fractal Suite No.1 (part I):

Free Trance Ensemble

Evil Clown Headquarters, South Boston – 1994

1) Induction ‐ 38:18

2) Causality ‐ 9:50

PEK, Martha Ritchey, Thom Jones

Evil Clown Album Page

Bandcamp | YouTube 1 | YouTube 2 | YouTube 3

Fractal Suite No.1 (Part II):

Free Trance Ensemble

Evil Clown Headquarters, South Boston – 1994

1) Assurgance 18:21

2) Epiphenominon 30:22

PEK, Martha Ritchey, Thom Jones

Evil Clown Album Page

Bandcamp | YouTube 1 | YouTube 2

The Julia Set:

Fractal Trance Ensemble

Evil Clown Headquarters, South Boston – 24-25 October 1994

1) Cantor Space ‐ 24:41

2) Repelling Periodic Points ‐ 27:19

3) Bounded Iterations ‐ 26:14

PEK, Martha Ritchey

Evil Clown Album Page

Bandcamp | YouTube 1 | YouTube 2 | YouTube 3

The Mandelbrot Set:

Fractal Trance Ensemble

Evil Clown Headquarters, South Boston – 24-25 October 1994

1) Self Similarity  – 22:41

2) Hypervolic Components – 36:38

3) Local Connectivity – 20:12

PEK, Martha Ritchey

Evil Clown Album Page

Bandcamp | YouTube 1 | YouTube 2

Archival Ensembles (1992 – 2003)


Boston Improvisors’ Collective (1994 – 1996)
Bottom Feeder (1997)
Composer’s Orchestra (1995)
Equilibrium (1999)
Expansions (1994)
Leaping Water Trio (1992 – 1994)
Mental Notes (1996 – 1997)
Raqib Hassan (1993 – 1998)
Skysaw (2003)
Wind (1997 – 1999)


Fractal Music (1994 – 1995)