Music Performance+Recording+Production

Always looking to collaborate, I can provide compositions, instrumental accompaniment and creative production strategies for live performance, studio recording and sound installations. Versed in jazz, r&b and improv/electronic/progressive styles, I seek to experiment in many genres and delivery formats.

Although electric bass is my instrument of choice, I’ll employ many types of acoustic and electronic sound palettes.

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As the founder of Basic Food Group, formed in 1986, I have performed and recorded with Steve Boyles, Rik Sferra, Hall Sanders, Michael Bruns, Ben Glaros, Eliot Larson and others. The band continues to work on new music, and will release a follow-up to the critically acclaimed "Three Squares" as a two-volume edition of scores.

Performing and recording on the electric and acoustic bass since middle school, I've worked with artists across the spectrum, with concentrations in jazz, experimental, free improv, R&B and New Music. These musicians include Ginger Commodore and Slice, Paul Vachon, Peggy Clark, Bill Gabrys, Doug Keuhn, Giorge Pettus, 2 Mikes In Racin' Wagon, and many uncredited appearances on commercials and demos. See the Band Projects page for more information.

As a composer and sound designer I've created soundtracks for documentary and narrative films, including "Long Gone", directed by David Eberhardt, and Rik Sferra’s award winning video wall installation “Cultural Dysfunction in America”. Most recently, I worked with Clint Imboden on sound design for his installation for the "Let Me Be A Witness" exhibition at Root Division gallery in San Francisco.

I received an Artist Opportunity award in Music Composition from the Minnesota State Arts Board, and was commissioned to create a new audio work for radio by KFAI.

Formal education includes studies with Ona Pinsonneault, Carlo Minnetti, David Nye Brown and Steve Erquiaga.