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BIO

I am a guitar player/composer in Oakland, CA. I have played in a wide variety of groups-- heavy rock/avant 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
Liz Allbee
Vijay Anderson

Bran(...)pos
Carla Bozulich
Sheldon Brown
members of Caroliner
J.A. Deane
Thomas
Dimuzio
Marco Eneidi


Ben Goldberg
Phillip Greenlief
Jacob Felix Heule
Devin Hoff (Nels Cline Singers)
Henry Kaiser
Annette Krebs
Miya Masaoka
Lisa Mezzacappa
Kanoko Nishi



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 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 (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 2008



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