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Roundware

I’ve been an active developer on the open source project Roundware for the past few months, and it’s been very exciting. I’ve gotten the opportunity to pitch in a project used in Sound Artist Halsey Burgund‘s last few installations, as well as develop a location-based media platform geared towards ART instead of broadcast. From the …

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Shortwave: Hidden Spaces

In 2007 I created a piece with Iole Alessandrini called Hidden Spaces. From the press release: Hidden Spaces is an interactive light and sound installation. Lasers create planes that form flat spatial fields. Through the use of video tracking and computerized sound, the planes are ‘audio-visualized’: people explore, with their own movements, the spaces hidden …

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Degenerate Art Ensemble

I was guitarist + composer with DAE from 97-2001ish, but once a Degenerate, always a Degenerate. Most recently I built the drum robot animated projection for their Sonic Tales show, whom we nicknamed Diego (code for this coming soon…). Click here for the DAE site Here are the records I did with them: Lookaway Popeye …

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The Emergency Pants Collection (2006)

The Emergency Pants Collection is a compendium of short films by my friend William Weiss. I had met him through my brother, and commiserated about so many things audio-related, that it seemed old familiar territory by the time we started wading through the audio of his dozen-or-so short films. I learned a lot in the …

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Vanilla Guerrilla (1996)

My brother Andy and I share a love for the blaxploitation genre. Shot in beautiful black and white film in Seattle’s grimy University District, Andy wrote this hilarious short and I scored it. We recorded it on my 24th birthday. By this time my recording studio had grown from a four-track cassette to a two-track …

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TAOS (2006)

Brandon Schmid’s beautifully shot Taos tells the story of an urban professional who accidentally gets his soul back after being stranded in Taos, New Mexico. Elliot Smith passed while I was working on the score and the music I wrote has a bedroom-pop feel in places as a result . In his review of Taos …

First Aid For Choking (2004)

Ryan Dignan and I collaborated on the soundtrack for Megan Griffith’s first feature, a romance that takes place in a school of cosmetology in small town Idaho. Ryan and I split some of the work up at times and pitched in together on others. All recorded in one marathon session in a friend’s basement on …

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Urban Scarecrow (2004)

My brother’s second feature film was more serious and surreal than its predecessor with a more fleshed out story and stylized look. The heightened visual impact made scoring much easier, and we both became very passionate about which music should go where. Many scenes had more than one “solution” from a compositional sense. In the …