BIOI am a guitar player/composer in Oakland, CA. I have played in a wide variety of groups-- heavy rock/free jazz/improvised music/contemporary classical. My solo work draws a lot from early country and blues tunes, reworked (mangled?) in my own way. In any context I tend to tread a wobbly line between melodicism, atonality and sonic abstraction. Both solo and in groups I like to develop specific tunes/riffs/compositional ideas, and then throw musical monkey wrenches into them live, forcing them to self-destruct and collide with free improvisation. I am an extremely curious person and love a lot of very different sorts of music.
PERFORMED/RECORDED WITH:
Scott Amendola (Nels Cline
Singers, Charlie Hunter Quartet)
Liz Allbee
Vijay Anderson
Bran(...)pos
Carla Bozulich (The Geraldine Fibbers, Evangelista)
Sheldon Brown
members of Caroliner
J.A. Deane
John Dikeman
Thomas Dimuzio
Marco Eneidi
Ben Goldberg
Phillip Greenlief
Jacob Felix Heule
Devin Hoff (Nels Cline Singers)
Darren Johnston
Henry Kaiser (Crazy Backwards Alphabet)
Annette Krebs
Lisa Mezzacappa
Kanoko Nishi
Noah Phillips
Gino Robair
John Shiurba
SF Sound
Damon Smith
Moe! Staiano (ex-Sleepytime Gorilla Museum)
Weasel Walter (The Flying Luttenbachers)
Mike Watt (Minutemen, fIREHOSE)
Kenny Wollesen (Sex Mob)
Theater of Yugen
PLAYED IN GROUPS UNDER THE DIRECTION OF:
ANTHONY BRAXTON
NUBLU ORCHESTRA- (Butch Morris)
EVANGELISTA- (Carla Bozulich)
SF SOUND
THEATRE OF YUGEN
MALCOLM GOLDSTEIN
JON ROSE
FESTIVALS/EVENTS/VENUES PLAYED:
Music Unlimited Festival in Wels, Austria 2008
Jazz em Agosto in Lisbon, Portugal 2009
High Mayhem Festival in Santa Fe, NM in 2002, 2003, 2005, and 2007
The Stone NYC (2006 curated by Fred Frith, 2010 curated by Larry Ochs)
The San Francisco Tape Music Festival 2005 and 2006
The Women's Electroacoustic Listening Room 2005
Edgetone New Music Summit, SF 2008
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, SF 2009, 2010
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