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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