About Me
EARLY 80s, OLYMPIA: arty punk rock, etc. (Steve Fisk, John Foster, Calvin Johnson, Lois Maffeo, Tim Brock, Bruce Pavitt, Cheri Knight); experimental and electronic music; Palace of Lights label (K. Leimer, Marc Barreca, Regional Zeal compilation LP); KAOS-FM Music Director & DJ - Torture Time w/ Steve Fisk (experimental), Snapshot Radio w/ Rich Jensen (field recordings); OP Magazine; Snapshot cassette zine; free improvisation MID-LATE 80s, NYC: improvised music (Chris Cochrane, Zeena Parkins, Ikue Mori, Lesli Dalaba, Cinnie Cole, Sue Ann Harkey, Doug Henderson, Samm Bennett, Judy Dunaway, David Shea, Matthew Ostrowski, Fred Lonberg-Holm, et al); sound design for theater by Lee Ellickson and others; Snapshot Radio on WFMU; workshops w/ Meredith Monk/The House; Franklin Furnace, MoMA, New Music Distribution Service EARLY 90s, SANTA FE: co-founded non-profit org Nonsequitur and released over 25 titles of experimental music (The Aerial and Radius compilation series + What Next? label: Loren Mazzacane, Alison Knowles, Annea Lockwood, Deep Listening Band, Malcolm Goldstein, Peter Garland, David Dunn, Death Praxis, Teiji Ito, lots more); social music with Antonia Apodaca, Cleofes Ortiz; worked on Robert Ashley's opera Now Eleanor's Idea; Dueto Le Momo w/ singer Marghreta Cordero; The Furies (boy guitarist); Gamelan Encantada (Javanese/contempo percussion group) MID-LATE 90s - EARLY 2000s, ALBUQUERQUE: performances with amplified natural/found objects, small instruments, electronics and field recordings; collaborated w/ Francisco Lopez, David Dunn, Steven Miller; toured solo and w/ Steve Roden & Anna Homler; studied gamelan slonding with Pak Gunawan in Tenganan, Bali; Nonseq morphed into monthly concert series; DJ on KUNM; wrote about music & food for La Cocinita monthly; produced two CDs by Nacha Mendez; tons of of field recording; old-time fiddle; music + sound design for Lane Lucas & other dancers; began making sound installations, usually site-specific; quit performing live (final gig in Albuquerque with Bernhard Guenter, Jeph Jerman & Steve Roden); soundtrack for documentary about painter Agnes Martin; organized Aether Fest (radio art festival) 2004-NOW, SEATTLE: Jack Straw Productions (left in 06); Nonsequitur concerts at Good Shepherd Center's Chapel Performance Space; Phonographers Union (improv field recording collective); more installations PRODUCT: Webster Cycles (CD, Cold Blue), Filtered Light (CD, Dragon's Eye), Occasional Music (CD, Palace of Lights), Three Rooms (CD, sirr), From Shelter (CD, Cold Blue); With My Back to the World: Agnes Martin (DVD, New Deal Films); Here-ings: A Sonic Geo-history (CD/book, La Alameda Press); In Memory of the Four Winds (CD, pianssimo); Emanations (CD, OO Discs); various compilations and guest appearances. COMING SOON: big recording project with vocalist Anna Homler + many great Seattle musicians.
