eric

I am playing in two bands at the moment; MIGRATING BIRDS (myspace.com/migratingbirds), and HUNDREDWATER (myspace.com/hundredwater). As a composer/multi-instrumentalist, I have created music for a wide range of visual genres: Documentary film, experimental to promotional videos, gallery openings and web sites. As a musician/performer, I have toured Europe, performed in N.Y.C, Halifax and Montreal, had a residency in a Soho (London) club, Busked the tube, metro and U-bahn. As a recording artist, recorded in Jamaica with Sly & Robbie, New York with Mick Taylor, London with Guy Chambers, Warsaw, Berlin and Montreal. For bands, the composition style has ranged from Hard core, Bluegrass to Actuelle. For Film, from Middle eastern to ambient, Gamelan to Pop. One film, "Faultlines" by Eylam Kaftan, for which I composed, won "Best short" and the "Jury prize" at Toronto's Planet Indie Film Festival. Another, "Journey" by Nancy Petry has toured the electronic media festival circuit from the FILE festival in Sao paolo, the MONA festival in Detroit to the London Biennale.____ABOUT THE ABOVE MUSIC:______________________ CHANGING WEATHER. This is the newest. A section taken from a longer improvisation. A collaboration with Laptop player /field recordist Sean O'Neill. For more on this project go to http://www.myspace.com/HundredWater ___________ DESERT PLACES___ Music composed around a drum improvisation. All instruments played by myself at my home studio. Poem by Robert Frost.____MEDLEY OF PAST BANDS. This is a medley of several past bands for which I co-composed and/or drummed. The bands: Scum Sex Magnet. Neil Hennessey. The First Second x2. Jimmy Goodrich. Sea of Heads._________________________ MANIFESTIVE DESTINY. I wrote this anti-war song during the buildup to the invasion of Iraq. I combined the words 'Manifest Destiny' with 'Festive'. First performed as part of a gallery vernisage.PHOTOS of me by Barry Henderson http://flickr.com/photos/barry_henderson