EDUCATION

 

2006 - 2008

BA, Sonic Creation and Perception | University of Washington, Seattle , WA

2007

CCRMA Summer Workshop, Spectral and Physical Models (at Stanford University), Perry Cook, Xavier Serra

2004 - 2006

AS | North Seattle Community College, Seattle, WA

1987 - 1989

Music Composition Major, Certificate in Computer Music | Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

1985 - 1987

HS Diploma w/classical guitar emphasis | North Carolina School of the Arts, Winston Salem, NC, Aaron Shearer

 

 

EMPLOYMENT

 

2007 -

Researcher, University of Washington, Behavioral Neuroscience, Dr. Ellen Covey

1990 -

Composer/Audio Producer | clients:  RKO pictures, Columbia Tristar, Warner Bros., Virgin, Texas Instruments, MTV, Sony Play Station, Jerry Bruckheimer, Revolution Studios, Joe Roth, Peter Wolfe,  Art Center College of Design, O Pictures, Mercedes-Benz, NBC, The Picture Mill, Reverb , J. P. Getty Center, Dagmar Demming, Young MC , Jon Anderson , Carl Stevenson, Earth Wind & Fire, Francis Dunnery, Allister  Whitehead and Fantazia UK.

1993 - 1997

Faculty, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA, Audio for Digital Media beginning & Advanced, independent studies

1992 - 1994

Music/Audio consultant, Daniel Melnick, IndieProd, Digital mastering and archiving of personal music library.

 

 

EXHIBITIONS

 

2008

Anything You Can Do,  Swing Set - Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, Portland, OR

2008

Ring of Fire (single screen edit), California Video, library collection, The Getty, Los Angeles, CA

2008

Smoke Screen, Pivot Points, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL curated by Bonnie Clearwater

2008

A Sailor's Life is a Life for Me, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY curated by JoAnne Northrup and Holly Hughes

2008

Space Ghost, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY curated by JoAnne Northrup and Holly Hughes

2007

Ring of Fire, Victory Media Network, Dallas, TX on-going.

2007

Smoke Screen, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO curated by JoAnne Northrup, Elizabeth Dunbar

2007

Space Ghost, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO curated by JoAnne Northrup, Elizabeth Dunbar

2007

 Loop, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, redefined: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Collection,  curator Jonathan P. Binstock

2006

Smoke Screen, Jennifer Steinkamp, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, curated by JoAnne Northrup

2006

A Sailor’s Life is a Life for Me, Jennifer Steinkamp, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, curated by JoAnne Northrup

2005

sin(time), Extreme Abstraction, Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Buffalo, NY curated by Louis Grachos and Claire Schneider

2005

Loop,  Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

2004

X-Ray Eyes, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY curated by Andrea Inselmann

2004

Smoke Screen, In Situ: Installations and Large-Scale Works in the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida, curated by Bonnie Clearwater

2004

Mar Vista, Animation Impulse: Video Art and the Generated Image, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN Curator: Terri Smith

2002

Starry Eyes, EMP, Seattle, WA, ongoing

2002

Mar Vista, ACME., Los Angeles, CA

2002

X-Ray Eyes, Blur and Sharpen, University of Southern California, Taper Hall, Los Angeles, CA

2001

One saw; the other saw, Rice University Art Gallery, Curator: Kimberly Davenport

2001

sin(time), Beau Monde: Toward a Redeemed Cosmopolitanism, SITE Biennial, Santa Fe, NM  Curator: Dave Hickey

2001

Double Take, W5 Belfast, Northern Ireland, Curator:  Hand's On!  and Sally Montgomery

2000

Loop, The 46th Biennial Exhibition: Media/Metaphor, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Curator: Philip Brookman

2000

Aria, Lightscapes, The Fremont Street Experience, Las Vegas, NV

2000

They Eat Their Wounded, ACME., Los Angeles, CA

2000

Anything You Can Do,  Swing Set - Made in California: NOW,  Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LACMA Lab, Los Angeles, CA Curators: Robert Sain and Lynn Zelevansky

2000

Stiffs, Williamson Gallery, Pasadena, CA  Curator: Stephen Nowlin

1999

Phase = Time, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA  Curators: Sheryl Conkelton and Joan Kane

1999

X-Ray Eyes, Videodrome, New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY, NY. curator: Dan Cameron

1999

Space Ghost, greengrassi, London, England.

1998

A Sailor’s Life is a Life for Me, ACME., Los Angeles, CA

1997

Blue Blow, Ten in One Gallery, Chicago, IL

1997

Happy Happy, Bravin Post Lee, New York, NY

1996

Naysplatter, Harris Art Gallery, University of La Verne, La Verne, CA Curator:  Ruth Trotter

1996

Double Take, Glow, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA  Curator: Lorelai Stewart.

1996

Smoke Screen, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL curated by Bonnie Clearwater

1995

Orange Six-Point Sea, Heaven is in the Back Seat of My Cadillac, N.A.M.E. Gallery,  Chicago, IL Curator: Yvette Brackman

1994

Feel Purple, Taste Green, ACME., Santa Monica, CA

1994

Untitled, Photography and the Photographic, California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA Curator: Amelia Jones

 

 

DISCOGRAPHY

 

1999

Fragrant Sense, CD compilation, “Fear of Flying”, Fragrant Music.

1999

Fear of Flying,  12 inch vinyl, Fragrant Music.

1998

Does Jesus have Buddha Nature?, Single&Remix, 12 inch vinyl.  Fragrant Music

1998

twØ zerØs, Full length release CD, Fragrant Music

1997

Modern Day Paintings-By Original Musical Artists. Compilation CD & vinyl, "Crickey" Finger Paint Records

1997

WISH FM, CD compilation,  "Son of Birthson" Domestic Records

1996

Jet Set, compilation, CD compilation, "Ocean" Domestic Records

1996

Moon and the Stars EP, 12 inch vinyl,  Domestic Records

1995

Means to an End-Joy Division Tribute. compilation,  "Insight" collaboration with Further, Virgin Music

1995

United States of Ambience III. CD compilation,  "The Suspenders of Acrobats" Moonshine Music

1994

 United States of Ambience II, CD compilation,  "Sixteen" Moonshine Music

1994

Excursions in Ambience- the third dimension. CD compilation, "Birth   .Son" Astralwerks

1994

United States of Ambience I, CD & vinyl compilation, "Ocean" Moonshine Music

 

 

FEATURE FILM

 

2004

Shade, Composed Score, Produced Songs in film, starring : Sylvester Stallone, Melanie Griffith, Gabriel Byrne, Thandie Newton, Stuart Townsend and Jamie Foxx.