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I haven't been much of a musician since my piano days in the 6th grade, but what little of me is musical is dedicated to improvised sound or any non-traditional use of musical instruments. I've played guitar, although unconventionally, in most projects I've been involved with, but I have a history of dabbling with various microphones, keyboards, drums, flutes, sheet metal, bottles, bells, field recordings, found sounds and etc.

My realized projects and the year I started each:

Blunder > 2005 > solo guitar (jg)
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Sons of a Flywheel > 2004 > guitar/drum debauchery (jg, Ariel)
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Platinum Limb/Steel Wool > 2004 > noise improvisation (jg, Ariel, Rob Levy)
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Tuning Wars > 2002 > undulating sound waves done up on the fly (jg, Rob Levy)
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Jass Halos > 2002 > Nebraskan free improv (jg, Thad Aerts, Erik Putens, Malcom Miles). Reviewed here, featured here (go to Soundtracks, MP3 Archives, and find us under I-J).
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Join Us As We Talk In Circles > 2001 > solo guitar with on-the-fly multitracking (jg). Reviewed here.

Performance history

12/30/05, Zietgeist Gallery, with Tuning Warz
+ photo theremin, Line 6 delay modeler

9/29/05, Kirkland Cafe, Cambridge, MA, with Travel Labyrinth
+ photo theremin, Line 6 delay modeler

8/30/05, PA's Lounge, Cambridge, MA, with Travel Labyrinth
+ photo theremin, Line 6 delay modeler

8/26/05, Axiom Gallery, Allston, MA, with Platinum Limb
+ field recordings, electric guitar, Line 6 delay modeler

8/18/05, Kirkland Cafe, Cambridge, MA, with Travel Labyrinth
+ photo theremin, Line 6 delay modeler

6/28/05, Zietgeist Gallery, with Platinum Limb
+ field recordings and prerecorded readings, electric guitar

4/21/05, Zietgeist Gallery, with Tuning Warz
+ electric guitar (with drum stick)

4/10/05, Muddy River Smokehouse, Portsmouth, NH, 4/10/05, with Platinum Limb
+ electric guitar (three tuned strings + one loose string), Line 6 delay modeler

3/19/05, Collymore, Brooklyn, with Platinum Limb
+ field recordings, electric guitar, Picoverb (reverb, delay)

7/4/04, Zietgeist Gallery, Cambridge, MA, with Platinum Limb
+ unaffected electric guitar, contact mic, throat