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Vincent

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About Me

A selection of songs I have produced/performed... Check out this MySpace MP3 Player !
I enjoy textures and impressions, juxtopositions and presuppositions. I enjoy performing, recording, arranging, and composing music in many of its various forms. I study jazz and audio engineering at Elmhurst College. I can see music and taste colours. I subscribe to an ethical christian spirituality, the kind that involves loving other people. I know these are somewhat progressive concepts, but I don't believe the church should have a political agenda, I don't hate homosexuals, and Im genuinely concerned with the social welfare of people on this planet. Go figure. I have more recently had opportunities playing acoustic and electric basses, guitars, and pedal steel with a number of ensembles, including the Kyle Mann Combo, Mitchell's Vouch, Earl Grey, Aphid, Speaks to Clouds, Elipse and the EC Electric Guitar Ensemble, as well as stints with the Audacity, and One Foot in the Groove. I currently teach lessons on these instruments, and provide a variety of audio and media services through Audio Ambiance, a small sound/booking company i started. Above is a selection of live and studio recordings that i have done in a variety of different contexts. lemme know what you think.


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My Interests

Sound, technology, spirituality, art, independant film, history, wine, chinese buffet, sensual massage, conspiracy theory, disco balls, spelunking, heart breaking, pamphlets, backbeats, rainclouds, thai food, ones and zeroes, board games, acoustic bass, history, guitar, pretty faces, magnetic fields, architecture, christmas lights, semaphore.

I'd like to meet:

musicians, heros, sinners, producers, artists, owners of a lonely heart, philosophers, clientele, anyone upon whom i can ride the coat-tails of success, anyone with nice eyes,physicians, lovers, dames sporting nice gams, fighters, the faint of heart, lawyers, underdogs, wealthy patrons, the cast of M*A*S*H, spiritualists, motivated and progressive political moderates, lifetime achievers, that guy who sells tamales outside of the Empty Bottle, anyone with broken instruments/equipment i can have, the honest and the bold. I am currently seeking a partner in crime. if interested, submit a list of recent crimes you have committed, along with a head shot, resume, and 3 references. i'll try and get back to you in a timely fashion.

Music:

Medeski Martin and Wood, Andrew Bird, Jonathan Kreisberg, John Vanderslice, Florian Ross Trio, Brad Mehldau, the Beach Boys, Bill Frisell, the Boards of Canada, The Books, Christopher Willits, Classical Chinese music, Herbie Hancock, The Grateful Dead, Iron and Wine, Pink Floyd, Nick Drake, Ornette Coleman, Paul Motian, Steve Reich, The Owls, Spiritualized, Chick Corea, The Chicago Underground, So, Sufjan Stephens, Cinematic Orchestra, Dntel, Dragonforce, Jean Michel Pilc, Ari Hoenig, Stevie Wonder, The Slip, Wilco, The Flaming Lips, Velvetron, Yes, Broken Social Scene, Brian Eno, Eric Dolphy, Hum, Greg Osby, Tortoise, John Scofield, Kevin Sheilds, Sam Prekop, Guided By Voices, Sigur Ros, Simon and Garfunkel, Radiohead, Aesop rock, Mum, Marvin Gaye, Kings of Convenience, Lamchop, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, American Football, Kurt Rosenwinkel

Movies:

Magnolia, Eternal Sunshine, Broken Flowers, Pi, Requiem, Punch Drunk Love, Requiem for a Dream, Lost in the Translation, Clockwork Orange, Fight Club, Adaptation, Amelie, Waking Life, V for Vendetta, anything with Steven Seagal...

Television:

The Office, Cheap Seats, Walker Texas Ranger, Mash, Law and Order, 24, Stella, Seinfeld

Books:

This Ambient Century, Vonnegut, TS elliot, Blue Like Jazz, liturgical writings, The Count of Monte Christo, Chuck Palahniuk, Thoreau

Heroes:

Bill Frisell, Wayne Krantz, Charlie Parker, Brian Eno, Sir George Martin, Lennon and McCartney

My Blog

Observations

i meant to toast the heightened host that sight and sun revere the most but gravity allows no rest to falling hearts this summer losti would suspect that islands crossed and double crossed what once w...
Posted by Vincent on Thu, 10 Aug 2006 09:27:00 PST

skies and rhymes

celebrate the lengthy wait that causes one to contemplate the reasons why long times and eyes and thoughts and skies and rhymes like waves against a shore extending past scenery and the spectrum of co...
Posted by Vincent on Thu, 10 Aug 2006 09:26:00 PST

Quietly

from secret sounds and broken crownslay a child no one foundamidst the weeds he grasps, he sees, he longs for touch and love profoundand in this state that supercedesall destiny, all wants and needsan...
Posted by Vincent on Thu, 10 Aug 2006 09:25:00 PST

Lead Based Paint

LEAD BASED PAINTDue to the heightened state of awarenessIve canceled my trip to London and ParisThe economy dips and money is tightAnd it takes me four hours to catch a damn flightCause it seems im se...
Posted by Vincent on Thu, 10 Aug 2006 09:24:00 PST