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What Will You Do? is a Death Blues text and image piece that was created for a project by Kate Mytty which deals with the ‘finding of humanity.’
Click here to view Death Blues: What Will You Do?

My Grandpa passed away in the 1990s when I was in my 20s. Years before that, when I was very young, he gave some antique pocket watches to my Dad. Recently, my Dad called and said he’d like to give the watches to me. Of course, I was excited to receive such a sentimental gift [...]

The folks at Hometapes have released another of their holiday albums this year, which can be acquired either freely, or by making a donation to Heifer Project International, an Arkansas-based organization whose mission is to end poverty and help save the earth.
It’s called the never ending beginning. There’s a ton of music on it, featuring [...]

NPR Music’s Lars Gotrich has published his 2011 Best of Outer Sound Albums, and I’m honored that he chose my Alphabet of Movements LP as number 19 on the list.
There are a ton of records out. A ton! And the fact that something I’ve done has received attention from a media source that surely [...]

Lately I’ve been playing drums with Broomsticks. Not actual broomsticks, but manufactured sticks that resemble small bushels of old broom tines. The effect is like a very heavy brush. Anyway, the part you hold is very fat, much larger than a regular drum stick. It can take awhile to get comfortable with them, but once [...]

It was an unlikely situation. In a room stood myself, my friend from out of town, and the wife of another friend of ours. We listened while she showed us a list of details written on a sheet of paper. The details were one to two line sentences of things that had occurred involving each [...]

I just returned from from the Viva! Art Action festival in Montreal where I was the only musical performer. This exclusivity made me think about what performance is, our expectations of it, and the scope of what is and what can be involved. I had some great conversations about this too, with Mathieu Beausejour, Manon [...]

What will you do?
My new project, Death Blues, is just beginning, and I’ve created a separate site which will contain info and updates about what happens with it. Head over there to learn more about it.
I’ll be posting thoughts and insights about the work involved here at Rhythmplex, but most of the details and [...]