Album art by Tom Watson Sludge Monster, Put Your Arm Thing On My Shoulder is out now! I’m very excited to have some new music to share. This album can be found lots of places: Bandcamp, Spotify, Youtube. With this album I’ve done a handful of video skits. I’ll share one on this page, but the rest can be found here.
On August 28th 2023 I showed all new art work at the Waddell Art Gallery in the Washington DC area. The show was curated by Anna Freerksen and featured work that was digitally sculpted and then CNC machined out of hardwood.
After several years of students asking, I finally found a way to do a workshop series on guitar building. This gave me an opportunity to try a new design out. In the workshop with students, I will be working with 12 students building five guitars. We will be designing the shapes of the guitars, cutting out the bodies, sanding and finishing and then wiring and assembling.
Some info on a recent piece I helped with. “On the Day They Come Home,” a sculpture by Courtney Bowles and Mark Strandquist in the exhibition “Staying Power,” featuring five women who are fighting to end life sentences in Pennsylvania.
Eight months ago I started using a text to speech stable diffusion machine learning system to make experimental short video loops. And because I’ve always had an interest in video and music I started chopping something together into a loose narrative. Above is a finished music video from then. I love this song, it’s part of an series of songs about reanimation. It has silly lyrics but put to somber music always makes me unsure of how to feel. And eight months into the AI movement I am unsure how to feel about it as well. I went from immense enthusiasm, to deep concern to now acceptance that it is here to stay. In a short amount of time I’ve had AI conversations in just about every setting. From heated discussions with close friends to conversations with my parents. It has permeated every avenue of my life in […]