ABOUT
I was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest. My early years involved drawing cartoons and taking dance classes from my aunt. At the age of 12 music and movies took over. I studied classical percussion, jazz and made short movies with my friends during highschool. During college I played a lot of dinner-jazz gigs and recorded/toured in various rock bands.
In 2006 I relocated to the Bay Area and since then have been lucky enough to cross paths with Fred Frith, William Winant, Zeena Parkins, Roscoe Mitchell, Anantha Krishnan, Ben Goldberg, John Schott, Cory Wright, Aram Shelton, Steini Gunnarsson, Dominique Leone, Darren Johnston, Todd Sickafoose, Graham Connah, and the bands Jack O’ the Clock, Host Family, Efft, 20 Minute Loop, The Monolith, Beep!, tUnE-yArDs, Science Fiction, Evon, Arts & Sciences, and the Oakland Active Orchestra. I also lead the long standing trio Wiener Kids and the group Mindless Thing, a collaboration with reed player/poet/sage Jim Ryan.
DISCOGRAPHY
The Visible Men, In Socks Mode, 2002 (leisure king)
Scrambled Ape, Atlas of 21st Century A.M. Radio Classics, 2004 (rocketboy arts)
The Visible Men, Love: 30, 2005 (leisure king)
Deke Falcon, Sand in the Shower, Rust on the Road, 2005 (happy mistake)
Wiener Kids, EP, 2007 (self release)
Aram Shelton, Flockterkit, 2007 (singlespeed music)
Patrick Hayden, Doubles, 2008 (self release)
Jack O’ The Clock, Rare Weather, 2008 (self release)
Wiener Kids, Why Don’t You Make Me?, 2009 (self release)
Zachary James Watkins, Black Spirituals, 2009 (tapeworm)
Vanessa and Her Many Moons, Full, 2009
Alee Karim and Science Fiction, 2010 (self release)
Agnes Szelag’s Evon, The Bees Are Coming, 2010 (aphonia)
Host Family, Dream Recess, 2010 (self release)
Jack O’ The Clock, How Are We Doing and Who Will Tell Us, 2010/11 (self release)
Efft, Nothingdark, 2010 (self release)
Efft, Faraway Battery, 2011 (self release)
Arts & Sciences, Arrowd, 2011 (self release)
tUnE-yArDs, W H O K I L L, 2011 (4AD)
Wiener Kids, What A Mess, 2011 (self release)
Arts & Sciences, New You, 2012 (singlespeed music)
Andrew Conklin, How Speaker, 2012 (self release)
Karl Evangelista/Grex, Taglish, 2012 (self release)
Michael Coleman’s Cavity Fang, 2013 (table & chairs)