I draw and paint all the time – almost every day. I am trying to loosely connect memories to form new ideas. On this screen i can draw and paint in the car or at the doctor’s office. I then like to set these digital drawings to music. Lilliana asked…
Guitar – DESK
I bought a truck. This allows me to collect furniture. I live in a neighborhood built in the 1950’s They trow away really nice furniture. Voila – A guitar is born. note – This project is still under construction the screen in front of the speaker is still being hotly…
SWIRL – Guitar
I sketched this guitar in the car while my wife was driving us back to Chicago from Iowa. I wanted to essentially Decorate and electrify a tin can guitar that I had built on a 2×2 plank in my garage. Most of the laser work that I did was purely…
2016 Audio Sculptures
I got a Laser Cutter for SXU.
Album – FOUND – Rook5 – 2016
Album – STRINGS – Rook5 – 2015
This album was mostly written on airplanes. The iPad , specifically the strings in Garageband, were my primary instrument.
Album – NEWS – Rook – 2013
This should be a bouncier than Ruckus More relevant than Relents and still more human then Relic. These songs were all created on my iPad I really wanted to test the latitude of the songwriting value of the tool specifically. I was very pleased – The iPad successfully reinvented the…
iPad Drawing Experiments – 2011
This video contains a dozen or so painting-animations. Some utilize some photo and video collage. The music is by the band 55 with whom I have made many recordings. I am playing bass on these tracks. Longer Version Abbreviated Version of my introduction to iPad drawing. This one includes…
Album – LACE – Boy Deb – 2010
Collaborations between me and Deb Vogt are called Boy Deb. Boy Deb came from our very first collaboration using an old 4 track recorder. I uploaded the cassette recordings to my computer one track at a time. I found a section of Deb’s voice and put a gender bender filter…
Album – RUCKUS – Rook – 2008
So these songs were created in the upstairs studio at the Chicago Art Department Gallery. This should be a little louder than Relents and more human then Relic. These are all solo tracks – I wrote the song, played the guitar sang the lyrics, chose the drum and uploaded it…