Groups
| thingNY Theatrically driven oddball chamber group thingNY have counted me as member since 2011. I’ve collaborated to make pieces like TIME: A Complete Explanation in 3 Parts, This Takes Place Close By, subtracTTTTTTTTT, Dear Nancine, and Mouthful. We make pieces together, we write stuff for one another, we do it all. |
 photo by Anna Groth |
| Varispeed Varispeed was formed in 2011 to perform Robert Ashley’s Perfect Lives (which we continue to perform), and since then we’ve explored pieces of Ashley’s, John Cage, Art Jarvinen, and Kenneth Gaburo. We specialize in huge, durational, site-specific, experimental pieces, but we always make sure to give them our own spin. |
 photo by Matthew Pokoik |
| Thee Reps Thee Reps (fka Reps) is a band that finds good ideas and then insists on them. I’ve play guitar through 2020 and synth since then, and I write some of the material. We started in 2015 and really rounded into form in early 2017. Our first album, Minimal Surface, came out in April 2019. |
 photo by Ivonne Paredes |
| Florida Lucid Dreaming Jeff Tobias & I have been making music together since 2014. We used this band as a vehicle for droning wind band pieces for the first decade, and starting in 2024 started releasing arty synth pop. |
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Some Other Groups I used to be in:
Why Lie? – Me & Aliza Simons. We started making arty pop songs in 2010. We put out a couple of albums on my label, Gold Bolus Recordings. 2010-2014.
Dave & Woody’s Chicken Slaughtering, LLC – Along with Woody Leslie, I’ve made a lot of different kinds of art that try to tell mostly pretty mundane stories in novel ways. We’ve told stories behind tables in parks and subway stations, done some odd recordings, created live stage shows, and made a lot of digital images. The link above will take you to our tumblr. 2011-2014, with occasional projects since then
ellen o – Ellen O’Meara was a brilliant singer-songwriter who made glorious synth pop, and I had the pleasure of playing clarinet and synth and singing in her band from 2014-15.
Cough Button – A collaborative effort with Lynn Levy & Aliza Simons to make performances, installations, and recordings that use transmissions in novel, revealing ways. 2011-12.
Sweat Lodge – Six folks who are determined to bring you remarkable & new music in any number of forms. Started in 2011, went strong into 2013, still lurking out there.
Performers Forum – Seeking, in the broadest possible terms, to be an open forum for musicans of all stripes. Convening in person about once a month in Brooklyn, NY. Begun 2011, wound down in 2013. May be back some day.
Gamelan Kusuma Laras – NYC’s premiere (and only) Javanese gamelan, in residence at the Indonesian Consulate. Rehearsing often but performing only once a season. I was a regular member 2009-2012, and I still try to go whenever I can.
Eidolon (aka ensemble one) – Eidolon was an improvising chamber group, an experimental big band led by Andrew Lafkas that rehearsed a ton and played out once a month from 2007 to 2009. I played clarinet, guitar, and we all wrote for the group.
Trouble – The improvising madness of Dave Kadden & myself. Woodwinds, electros, yelling, whatever. 2005-8.
Young Vandals – Two guitar improv from Jack Reilly & myself. 2007-8.
The Monster Project – A seven piece band that recreated monster movie soundtracks. I played clarinet 2005-6.