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Current Events & Recent News

  1. > My sound design for “Fishy Business,” an animation detailing the dangers of open-water fish farming, is now online at the Food & Water Watch website. Click the play button below to see a short excerpt. (August 2008)




  4. > I created a Sound Design for THE WEIRD SISTERS, a play produced by East 3rd Ensemble at the Gene Frankel Theatre in New York. (December 2008)

  1. > Ringtones! I’ve uploaded some new ringtones that you can buy for your cellphone. Check them out on the new page or at Myxer.com



  4. > The Tiny Dance Film Series (below) will be installed at the DANCE:FILM09 festival in Edinburgh, Scotland. (May 21-30)

  1. > I’ll be working again with East Third Ensemble on their production of Nilo Cruz’s BICYCLE COUNTRY this summer in New York. (June/July 2009)



  4. > Lots of new & different-sounding songs have been posted on the sound samples page. (March 2009)



  7. > My Sound design for the play MEDEA’S CHILDREN premiered on April 8 at Whitman College. I’ll also taught a workshop titled “Sonic Possiblities For The Stage” for the students there. (March/April 2009)



  10. > SECURE THE TRUCK, a collection of five rockin’ tunes that I produced in Los Angeles with the band of the same name will be released in June 2009.



  13. > I’m creating a Sound Design for TERRIBLE THINGS, a new theater piece from Lisa D’Amour & Katie Pearl. It premieres in New York at Performance Space 122 in the fall. (December 2009)



  16. > My sound design for the Intrepid Sea, Air, and Space Museum’s new Intrepid Adventure Website for kids is now online. Click the play button below to watch a short excerpt! (September 2008)

  1. > I recently created a new techno song for Johnny Klein’s newest film, “The Moon Says I Love You.” Watch a short excerpt of it below. The film will be screened at Barbes in Brooklyn on June 13, 2009.

  1. > Two new tracks! Both with funny names. Click to play:

  2. > > Almost 11 < <

  3. > > Whale Pong < <

  1. > Here’s the trailer for the latest East Third Ensemble play for which I’m contributing a new sound design. The trailer was edited by the good folks at Brooklyn Films and scored by yours truly! Click to play:

  1. > The TINY DANCE FILM SERIES will be installed at a chashama Window Space in Manhattan from July 20-26! Peter & I are super excited for this installation. Party on Monday, July 20, 2009!

  1. > Two reviews for A BICYCLE COUNTRY are out. NYTheater.com and OffOffOnline (July 2009)

  1. > I’ve relocated to Washington, DC! After 10 years in Brooklyn, Rebecca & I have said goodbye to Gotham and settled in “The District,” home to Fugazi & Bad Brains. But I’ll be traveling back & forth on I-95  for the rest of 2009. Two new theater pieces & a possible TDFS screening are on deck for NY audiences this fall. (August 2009)

  1. > I just finished a new track for the Tiny Dance Films installation at chashama. The almighty Jon Cohrs supplied a goodly amount beats on this one. Check it out on the sound samples page. (July 20, 2009)

  1. > Work on HAWK MOON has begun! East Third Productions is workshopping four sections of the 1973 Sam Shepard text. We’re planning to present an informal staging of these initial investigations in late Roctober, with the thought of producing a full-on event at some point in the future. (Sept. 2009)

  1. > The fantastic theatre-making team of Lisa D’Amour & Katie Pearl have launched a new blog. It’s a conversation between the two of them about their new  show, TERRIBLE THINGS. Lisa types and Katie is on video talking about and around the show. It's a trip. They recommend starting from the EARLIEST entries and moving through to the MOST RECENT.  But you’ll do what you want....  lisakatietest.blogspot.com (Oct. 27, 2009)

  1. > TERRIBLE THINGS is now open to the public for three weeks only. I contributed a sound design for the show, and I must say that it is one of my favorites. Granted, every most recent thing that I make tends to always be my favorite, but I feel that this show will stay up there at the top for quite awhile. There are some beautiful and strange images throughout the show - scenic, light, word-based, and physical. (Dec. 5, 2009)

  1. > The Tiny Dance Film Series - my collaboration with Peter Kyle Dance - will be on view in New York during the 2010 Dance On Camera festival, January 28 - February 4 at the Walter Reade Cinema lobby in Lincoln Center. If you haven’t witnessed the magic that is the Tiny Dance Film Series, this is the best time to do it! (Dec. 28, 2009)

  1. > heARTh  is an art party that’s happening in my Washington, DC neigborhood on Saturday, February 27 at 8:00. It takes place at the home of Aadika Singh, and will feature new work from New York & DC-based artists - myself included! The new piece is a peripatetic audio & video piece.

  2. (Feb. 15, 2010)

  1. > The heARTh party was a huge success! Rebecca and I are really happy with the first iteration of OVER THE MOON (aka The Big Moon Head); we learned a lot from all the guests who walked around the party with it. More pictures are here.

  2. (March 1, 2010)