Musical Activities

Bands

Space Elevator - experimental big band (2016 - present)
Founder, composer, director, conductor
Debut show performed to sold out audience at the Fox Cabaret
Unanimous praise from audience members and local press
Had music performed by John Korsrud's Hard Rubber Orchestra
(Facebook, Audio)                         

Big EviL - avant-garde funk (2010 - present)
Baritone sax, composer, occasional synth
Headlining Canada Day spot at Vancouver Jazz Fest
Entirely self produced debut album
Toured Western Canada
        (Facebook, Audio, Video)

Key To Abyss - improvised free jazz/acoustic noise (2011 - present)
Baritone sax, bass sax, flute, other reeds
2016 Whammy Awards nomination for Best Local Avant-Garde Group
Opened for LA noise legend Author & Punisher
(Facebook, Audio, Video)             

Edarem - jazz/rock/electronic (2012 - present)
Tenor sax, effects, synths, composer
Acted as backing band for Joel R Butler solo hiphop debut
                  (Facebook, Video)

Balkan Shmalkan - Balkan brass band (2014 - present)
Soprano sax, bass sax
Headlining spot at Woodstove Festival, ArtsWells
Played in a freaking graveyard!
(Facebook)

Polka Time - polka (2018 - present)
Clarinet, tenor sax
Performance on Talent Time!
Sold out Alpen Hall concert
(this band is secretly The Dreadnoughts)
(Facebook)

KaraKata - afrobeat (2018 - present)
Baritone sax
Tours to Powell River, Saltspring Island
(Facebook)

Hiphopalypse - hiphop jam session (2018 - present)
Keyboards, sax
Monthly open mic hiphop jam at Calabash Bistro
Come play, seriously it’s super fun. Email me.
(Facebook)

Green Penny Folks - folk jazz (2016 - present)
Tenor sax, flute, piano
Had a tour cancelled because of a bunch of forest fires
That's the highlight for GPF. It was gonna be a great tour!
(Facebook, Video)                    

Teapot in the Tuba - klezmer/pop/jazz (2016 - present)
Clarinet
Performing at various events,
weddings, and concerts around town
                 (Audio)

VaudeVille Vagabonds - electro-swing/rock (2012 - 2015)
Baritone sax, clarinet, bass clarinet, effects
Headlining spots at Cascadia and Atmosphere Gathering music festivals
Featured guest at Seattle Steamposium
(Facebook)                           

Ivy League Brawlers - rock/ska/funk (2008 - 2013)
Baritone sax
Headlining spot at Victoria Ska Festival
Opening for and joined on stage by Angelo Moore of Fishbone
                 (Facebook, Audio, Video)

Monsoon Season - jazz rock (2013 - 2015)
Baritone sax, bass clarinet, flute, effects, composer
(Audio)                          

Wet Nightmare - improvised rock (2014 - present)
Various instruments
                       (Facebook)

erk - modern jazz (2015 - present)
Baritone sax, bass clarinet

Kenjataimu - free jazz (2014 - present)
Tenor sax
                    (Audio)                    

Clayboy - modern jazz (2014 - 2017)
Baritone sax, synth

Mandelbrat - improvised noise (2015 - present)
Saxes, effects
                   (Video)

Spirogroove - RnB, soul cover band (2015 - present)
Corporate fun time band, hire us for your next event!
Tenor sax, baritone sax, flute
                          (Facebook)                     

Brass Bucket - pop tune brass band arrangements (2016 - present)
Corporate party time band, very different than a corporate fun time band
Email me to ask what the difference is
Tenor sax
                              (Facebook, Video)                      

Compositions

(of the serious art music variety that have
been performed by groups that aren't my own bands)

Flashlight
Commissioned by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra

Woke Floke Gaze
Performed at The Orpheum through Redshift Music and Ecstatic Waves
Nobody
Commissioned by Lara Neuss
(who's from Colorado so this is officially an international commission)
Just Listen
Commissioned by Ecstatic Waves
Sloove The Traction
Originally written for Space Elevator, performed by Hard Rubber Orchestra

...Maybe there's more? I forget, who's keeping track right?

Film/Commercial Music

Film Scores

Help Wanted (2016)
The Delicate Art of Puppetry (2015)
A Gift For Amelia (2014)
Crossing The Line (2013)
After The Beep (2013)
When The Clock Strikes Midnight (2012)
and probably more...

Film/Commercial Samples

Postmodern Records

Postmodern Records, founded by myself and my good friend and frequent collaborator Nikko Whitworth, acts as both a record label and a collective to help promote and curate the vast amount of experimental and exploratory music found in and around Vancouver.
The label primarily focuses on music that may not normally be represented by other labels or outlets and hopes to be able to shine a light on the bands and groups playing locally who's sound cannot so easily fall under one or two descriptive titles.

(Bandcamp, Facebook, YouTube)

Other Musical Activities

Musical Theatre Pit Orchestra Work
Sunday In The Park With George (United Players 2017)
Rocky Horror Picture Show (Geekenders 2016)
Heathers The Musical, twice (Gently With A Chainsaw 2016, Pipedream 2016)
Oliver! (Theatre Under The Stars 2016)
Legally Blonde The Musical (Theatre Under The Stars 2015)
Triumph of Love (UBC 2015)
The Gondoliers (North Shore Light Opera Society 2015)
Cabaret (Pipedream 2014)

Session Work
Performed and/or recorded with groups/musicians such as Marianas Trench, Los Furios, Sister Says, Bestie, BRASS, Sadie Campbell, Altona, Joel Butler, Ben Norton, Sorry Buttons, Rebecca Lam, The Phonix, Kevin Holman, Expain, many more...

Solo Work
I have tracks upon tracks of my own writing/recording/producing/collaborations that spans across many genres such as hiphop, musique concrete, grindcore, electronic, jazz, punk, pretty much anything. Some of these get released, some never see the light of day, maybe I'll put out an anthology one day...