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peter

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About Me

I'm a musician. More specifically, I play bass and synthesizers, produce and mix. I also do a lot of experimental work with sound manipulation and processing on my own and with various other people in music and film/tv. To stave off the inevitable next question, some credits: Jon Hassell, John Cale/Chris Spedding, Alanis Morissette, Seal, Shawn Colvin, L. Shankar, Nile Rodgers, Elliot Sharp, Sylvain Sylvain, Sussan Deyhim and Richard Horowitz, Veruca Salt, Thomas Newman, Skeleton Key, Charlie Clouser ("Saw", "Saw 2", "Saw 3", "Saw 4", "Resident Evil: Extinction", "Silence", NBC's "Las Vegas", CBS's "Numb3rs"), Jeff Rona, Anton Sanko, etc etc and so forth.

My Interests

Music, Sound, Classic Arcade Games, Architecture, the art of Victoria Faust, Nam June Paik, Gaudi, Frank Lloyd Wright, Film Technology, Computers

Music:

some Electronic/Ambient, Fourth World, 70's Weather Report, 70's Bowie and Stevie Wonder, ECM, Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Talk Talk, pre-85 Simple Minds, Roxy Music, Japan, Jeff Buckley

Movies:

2001, Dr. Strangelove, Brothers Quay, Apocalypse Now, Fantastic Planet, Wings of Desire, City Of Lost Children, Alien, Tron, Blade Runner, The Matrix

Television:

The Simpsons, The Daily Show, Chappelle's Show, MI-5, The Office, Futurama and 24.

Books:

Baudrillard's "America", less recent William Gibson - holy christ, I need to read more. It's frankly inexcusable.

My Blog

interview

When I was in Sydney awhile back on vacation, I had the pleasure of meeting and hanging out withHans Stoeve, who runs the Jon Hassell "Powerspot" group on Yahoo. Because of his keen interest in Jon's ...
Posted by peter on Sat, 11 Aug 2007 11:46:00 PST

back again

I just got back from Sardinia with Jon Hassell and Rick Cox. The gig itself unfortunately wasn't great, but the location was idyllic. Italy is brilliant in a lot of ways (not the least of which is the...
Posted by peter on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 06:55:00 PST

currently...

...been on the ridiculously-late schedule these days. I'm tracking bass on the new Alanis Morissette album and since I'm working alone at my house, I end up doing most of it late at night when there's...
Posted by peter on Fri, 20 Apr 2007 04:49:00 PST

On mini-tour with Jon Hassell

...so far, it's been a gear-damaging time here in Europe. Current body count is 2 Eventide H8000s, one Calabash and one Hadgini drum (total destruction on those last two.) Thanks, Lufthansa baggage ha...
Posted by peter on Wed, 01 Nov 2006 03:16:00 PST