This is the first thing we recorded together as Oil On Canvas in July 2003. It was done live to 2-track with no edits, minimal gear and no preparation. We still adhere to the improvisational approach but have taken more care with the recording…

This song was written and recorded for my 2009 RPM Challenge album "Relative Polyphonic Mutiny". I was watching a biography of Willie Nelson and so this was my attempt at something I thought he might do. I don't hate the song, but I freely admit…

This piece was written for the Vance Quartet, a student clarinet quartet at Oberlin in 2002. My wife is one of the 2 bass clarinetists heard on this recording-- we'd known each other for a few months at this point. The electronic sound collage…

In the summer of 2001, I took a road trip across the United States with two friends on some grant money from my grad school program. Our mission was to make a multimedia art documentary about people's relationship to water in different parts of…

Blues progressions allow for the most fun.

Plucking of the "wrong side of the strings" on my jazz guitar. Rhythm made with an espresso machine. I tried to do 2 main things here: 1) Create harmony with spoken voice, via pitch shifting (Did the first part of the program disturb you…

A cover of David Marcoullier's excellent piece. All lyrics and music are by him, and this is just my version.