2019 Circuitry & Poetry @MorYork, MorYork Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2019 Curated and performed in “IBEW IV: A Night Of Ideas” with Igor Amokian, Death Blanket, Enrich’d White, Anna Homler + Jorge Martin, and Smomid. Coaxial Arts, Los Angeles

2018 FrankenBent, Makara Center for the Arts, Santa Ana, CA lecture/performance

2018 Scored the Linda Kaye short subject documentary “Border Poets“

2017 TriAngular Bent performs with composer/percussionist Lukas Ligeti at Art Share, Los Angeles, CA

2016 With Mona Jean Cedar and Andy Ben, presented 2 simultaneous workshops, one for circuit bending performance, the other for dance with American Sign Language (ASL). The 2 workshop participants then combined for performance

2016 Interviewed for the upcoming docu-series “The Bender’s Circuit“

2016 Performed with Circuitry & Poetry in “Circuitry In Motion” part of “The Royal We”, a two-weekend-long exhibit in Chinatown’s King Hing Theater, features a dozen performance installations from up-and-coming Los Angeles-based artists.

2016 TriAngular Bent album release

2016 TriAngular Bent performs at Art Share, Los Angeles, CA

2016 Curated “International Brotherhood of Electrical Wonders III”, featuring Tim Kaiser, HM157, Los Angeles, CA

2015 TriAngular Bent performs with guest Amy Knoles, Art Share, Los Angeles, CA July 31

2015 Musical group TriAngular Bent forms, featuring Philip Mantione, Jeff Boynton, and former Frank Zappa/Mothers Of Invention keyboardist Don Preston.

2015 Curated “International Brotherhood of Electrical Wonders II”, featuring Tim Kaiser, HM157, Los Angeles, CA

2015 Collaboration with celebrated choreographer Rudy Perez in “Slate In Three Parts”, University of California, Irvine.

2014 Attended the Circuit Bender’s Ball in Nashville, TN as performer and circuit bending workshop presenter

2014 Featured in short subject documentary by Andy Ben

2013 Circuit Bending Performance, Iridian Arts, Art Share, Los Angeles, CA

2012 Circuit Bending performance, Night Of The Machines 9, Sancho Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2011 Finalist, 2nd Annual Moog Circuit Bending Challenge

2011 Circuitry & Poetry European Tour
Moers, Germany Nachtsstimmen Bauwagon
Gunpowder Shed Jam
Recital Hall invited guest
Cologne, Germany Cineplex Experimental Music
Munich, Germany TeatreDanz
Berlin, Germany TaktFrei Electronic Music Festival
Paris, France CINQ Atelier

2010 Circuit Bending performance/Installation at pLAylANd, a “Pop-Up Exhibition Space”, Los Angeles, CA

2010 Performed with Mona Jean Cedar and Andy Ben in “Ruth and Me” as part of Rudy Perez’ 80th birthday tribute “Perezian Geometry”, Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica, CA

2010 Co-directed short film LA Algorhythm with Andy Ben

2009 Collaborated as cellist, circuit bender, video editor and composer with Znayu in Steve Allen @Steve Allen as Steve Allen at the Steve Allen Theater in Hollywood, CA

2009 Solo circuit bending/cello performance for Remake/Remodel The Future, California State University at Long Beach. Video clip here

2008 Performed at Pehrspace, Feb. 4. Video here, review here.

2008 Performed in the debut of Hans Fjellestad’s Resbox series at the Steve Allen Theater in Hollywood, CA.

2008 Co-guest lecturer/performer with Mark Fraunfelder at LA Siggraph’s Maker Night

2008 Guest lecturer and performer at Kubilay Uner’s LA Composer’s Salon.

2007 Performed “Bent Haiku” as part of “Circuitry and Poetry” with Mona Jean Cedar, REDCAT Theater, Los Angeles, CA

2007 Taught Circuit Bending class at Oakwood School, North Hollywood, CA

2006 September 30-October 27th, 2006 created “The Ridiculatron 2000 and Other Disrupted Devices”, an exhibit/sound installation, at Acorn Gallery in Los Angeles. The exhibit included recently created circuit bent instruments, as well has remnants of instruments that were severely damaged in the 2004 house fire. A solo circuit bending performance took place Sept. 30, and a performance by “Circuitry and Poetry” with Mona Jean Cedar was given Oct. 14.

2006 Performed as keyboardist with Wall Of Voodoo at Pacific Amphitheater in Costa Mesa, CA, opening for Cyndi Lauper

2006 Performed with the Circuit Bending Orchestra at Bent Festival, New York City

2006 Moved back home! (rebuilt following 2004 fire)

2005 Collaborated with Rudy Perez in “I Like A View, But I Like To Sit With My Back To It”, performed September 15 & 17 at Highways Performance Space as part of the Latino New Works Festival.

2005 Married Mona Jean Cedar

2005 Circuit bending performance with Daniel Park at The Lab, San Francisco, CA, as part of “Godwaffle Noise Pancakes” for the debut of “Make” magazine

2005 Performed with the first “Circuit Bending Orchestra” as part of the HOWL! Festival, New York City, Fusion Arts Museum

2005 Joined group Skyline Electric, with former Devo drummer/percussionist Alan Myers

2005 Collaborated as composer with Rudy Perez on “Double Play Revisited” which was performed as part of the NOW Festival at the REDCAT Theater in Los Angeles, CA.

2005 Performed at Bent Festival, New York City, with Dr. Rek

2004 Created HPTEGSCBMBLA (The Highland Park Thursday Evening Gentlemen’s Society Circuit Bending Marching Band And Ladies Auxiliary). Our first parade was the Pasadena Doo Dah Parade. That same evening, a fire broke out in our home, completely gutting the interior and destroying all 11 circuit bent instruments that I had made.

2004 Began the first of several collaborations as composer with Rudy Perez. “Double Play” was the first of these as part of “Tender Land: Pasadena Festival of Art, Music, History and Science” (Pasadena, CA)

2004 Discovered Circuit Bending, and began practicing it myself

2003 After a long hiatus, returned to electronic music composition with “Burning Bird”, which inspired the eponymous colloboration with my future wife, Mona Jean Cedar. “Burning Man” was performed at the Burning Man Festival in 2003.

1999 Created computer graphics for the MGM film “3 Strikes”

1998 Created 3D animation “Long Ago Down Below”, which screened at the CSUN Animation Festival and took the bronze award for 3D Animation at Worldfest Houston.

1997 Founded Blank Stare Productions, a computer graphics and animation company.

1995 Synthesizer arrangement and performance on Jill Freeman song “Way Back When It Was Now” from the album “Songs About Sex And Depression“

1995 Discovered painting and multimedia art

1994 Composed music score for magician Franz Harary’s segment on “The World’s Greatest Magic”, which aired on NBC.

1992-93 Composed music for “Super Illusion”, a joint Russian-American production with magician Greg Wilson and the Bolshoi Circus of Moscow, which embarked on an 11 city, 3 month tour of Japan. Joined tour as sound technician.

1991 Scored trailer for the home video release of Alejandro Jodorowsky film “Santa Sangre”

1991 Keyboardist on Stan Ridgway song “Right Through You” on the album “Partyball” (Geffen Records)

1988 Keyboardist and arranger for Wazmo instrumental “Kramtorn Avenges The Puttbundles”, which appears in the Jonathan Demme film “Married To The Mob“

1986 Keyboardist and arranger for Wazmo song “Yahoo EEEE“, which appears in the Jonathan Demme film “Something Wild”

1983 Relocated to Los Angeles to Chicago

1981 Wazmo Nariz releases second album, “Tell Me How To Live”

1980 American tours with Wazmo Nariz as support act for The Police and XTC

1979 European tour with Wazmo Nariz as support act for The Police

1979 Wazmo Nariz releases first album “Things Aren’t Right” on IRS records.

1978 Joined IRS Records artist Wazmo Nariz as keyboardist

1975 began formal study of electronic music at Northern Illinois University

1974 Studied Music Theory and Composition at Northern Illinois University

1973 Composed “Andante For String Orchestra”, which was performed at the Illinois State Orchestra Competition

1964 Age 8. Began cello study. Exposure to the “Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music” LP plants the seed for future interest in electronic music