Bad Seeds, 2009
Mercer Union, Toronto
Wall drawing showing connections between bands and musicians
144 x 288 inches

Bad Seeds, 2009
Detail

Sunset Dub for King Tubby, 2009
Speaker cabinet, palm tree, yellow lightbulb, blue rug

DNA's Grapefruit, 2009
Newsprint with silk-screened text, grapefruit

Takeaway newsprint to recruit interested participants in figuring out the "unknown date, unknown studio in Canada" in which No Wave band DNA recorded the track Grapefruit sometime in the early 1980s.

Guitar Pieces (Jimmy Page / Robin Page), 2008
Two-channel video projection

A project based on coincidences connecting Canadian Fluxus artist Robin Page and legendary guitarist Jimmy Page through the performative destruction of guitars both in 1965.

A Colour-Coding of Partch's Ptolemy Keyboard Based on his Chromelodeon I, 2008
Inkjet print
48 x 60 inches

The arbitrary colour scheme used by the American composer Harry Partch for the Chromelodeon I, a microtonal keyboard he constructed in 1945, is transferred here to Partch's preliminary instrument, the Ptolemy. The only record of the Ptolemy is a black and white photo. This colour print represents one 'octave' (comprised of 43 distinct notes) of the Ptolemy keyboard as it might have appeared if given the same colour-coding as the Chromelodeon I. The Ptolemy was misplaced by Partch sometime in the 1940s.

Ptolemy Triptych, 2008
Inkjet print
36 x 81 inches

Source documents for the print 'A Colour-Coding of Partch's Ptolemy Keyboard Based on his Chromelodeon I'

Amusicology, 2009
Mercer Union (Toronto, ON)

A series of mini-installations, charting art/rock coincidences and convergences through sculptural inquiry, archival impulse and audio experiment. Subjects of exploration include King Tubby, DNA, Harry Partch, Jimmy Page, the Screamers and a web of others.