DESCRIPTION:
Document of the Selectric Piano.
The Selectric Piano uses an IBM Selectric typewriter to play the keys of a piano. Each time the typist types a character, a correlating note on the piano is played. A tiny video camera mounted on the typewriter stylus allows me to project the text as it is typed.

Elsewhere's Roof in Performance.
Elsehwere's Roof is a device that controls electroacoustic sounds using falling drops of water. The piece stands ten feet high and is controlled by turning valves on laboratory burettes. Each drop triggers a sound at the moment when it lands in a mason jar. Unlike any other "sequencer" I know of, its rhythms are utterly detached from one another. This allows for rhythms that are complex and evolving.

Rhythm 1001 in performance.
Rhythm 1001 is a sequencer that controls electromechanical percussion instruments. Programs are "written" by putting bamboo pegs into the plastic disk. The piece is an attempt to unpack what is going on inside modern digital sequencers that show us only LCD screens and buttons.

Document of the Singer Songwriter.
This is a 100 year old treadle powered Singer sewing machine converted into a drum machine. The machine's sewing function was preserved in the conversion. During performances I sew a "groove" onto a soft record as though a recording is being made.