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About Me

Multi-instrumentalist with experience in a number of different ensemble situations experiments with ideas.
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I am in Many Birthdays and Fiction .
Sometimes I play with My Education , some New Music Co-op events, Mongoose (Austin cobra players + improv actors), guest on recordings or live sets with other bands.
I have also done some sound design and instrumental arrangement for theater performances combining composed and improvised music.
I am going to put more sounds here eventually.
music is my leisure / tourniquet
Bands played with live:
Real Live Tigers, Annie Lin, Am Syndicate, My Education, David Israel, Tenlons Fort, Cue, Nate Janes/Field Guides, Juliette Commagere, Fiction, Many Birthdays, Steve Arceri, She Sir. . . .
Bands recorded with:
Fiction, Many Birthdays, Low Line Caller, the Black Angels, Golden Bear, Voxtrot, Moth Fight, the Applicators, John Schooley One Man Band, She Sir . . . .
Created or performed music for theater:
Holes Before Bedtime, Rubber Repertory 2005
Like Meat Love Salt, Adrienne Dawes 2007
A Breathing Machine for Carmella Beautain, Humdrum Collective 2008
No One Else in the Woods Tonight, Humdrum Collective 2008
Gorilla Man, Vestige Group 2008
Phoenix Unforgiven, Martin Zimmerman - UT New Works Festival 2009
Love and Death Feed the Flowers, ?? music by Andy Hadaway 2009
Faster than the Speed of Light, Stanley Roy and Jeremy Roye 2009
Lonestar, Texas A Popcorn Throwing Rock Country Musical, Vestige group 2009
Music for film:
Collaboration on original composition for short film "Ongtron" aaiff.org 2007 72 hour shootout
Original composition for PVP Film Festival trailer collaboration w/Aubrey Edwards
"Salty" by Fiction used in "Portrait", Glass Half Full Productions 2009
Curated / produced events:
Leisure Tourniqet presents:
2 days of Music and Friendship
(unofficial day party during sxsw)
March 14-15, 2008 at Hot Mama's
Leisure Tourniquet Equinox Mish Mash
(unofficial day party during sxsw) March 20-21, 2009 at Salvage Vanguard Theater
Volunteer in organizations:
Ladyfest Texas 2004
Church of the Friendly Ghost - churchofthefriendlyghost.org
Austin Museum of Digital Art - amoda.org
Available for wedding an event music using cello looping and electronics mixed with classical music, cover songs, or originals.
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 19/02/2007
Band Website: http://www.lawsoniainermisalba.org/LT/LT.html
Band Members: henna chou: arms, legs, fingers, toes and mouth
Influences: oxymorons, agnosticism, sisyphus, maps, allergies, moral relativism, avocados, wind, rashes, deserts.

(video from ladyfriends by skullcaster)

(video with brian purington, john dixon, vincent durcan, chris hackstie taken 8/21/09 by chris may)

longer version of motherless child

composition for FilmAid trailer

song by many birthdays
Sounds Like: can you have an actual three dimensional object that represents the thing that it actually is, can that be next to something that it's pretending to be?

Record Label: 0
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Some notes regarding posted songs

My buddies She, Sir have posted 2 new songs online - Ginger and Lemongrass.  I helped them out w/cello and vocals on Lemongrass.http://www.myspace.com/shesirCongratulations guys!I put up 2 rough mixes...
Posted by on Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:43:00 GMT

march event 2009

Friday and Saturday, March 20th and 21st at Salvage Vanguard Theater, www.salvagevanguard.org2803 Manor RoadAustin, Texas 787221pm to 7pm (last performers set at 6pm, clear out by 7pm)The line up is c...
Posted by on Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:51:00 GMT

march event 2008

march 14th and 15th-----------------------------------------------friday... ..sthil (atx)                                    4pmfiction (atx)                                  4:40pmmany birthdays (atx)...
Posted by on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:16:00 GMT

best band names of 2007

best band names of 2007 that i came up withthat i probably was not the first one to ever come up with . . . steppe aerobicsand pasta house
Posted by on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 01:14:00 GMT