It’s sort of a difficult project to explain. Basically it incorporates stop motion animation, large sculpture pieces and explores the concept of the passage of time as a well as our perception of it. When I have something on film I’ll be sure to update this site.

In other news, Philhelmon’s kickstarter campaign for the album “Enjoy it While It Lasts” has succeeded as of today! We’ve raised over $2000 in pledges and can now proceed with getting the music mastered and produced on cds with art and so forth! I’m so grateful and humbled that my friends and family have supported me and Henk in this creative venture.

It’s hard to articulate just how appreciative I feel… I’ve noticed that I often feel grateful, but don’t always say it. I hope people are aware. Get ready to recieve your pledge incentives/ prizes in the next few weeks!

Wilson, Fifer, Rose is coming along relatively well too. We keep tweaking our album’s running order, how many songs are going to be on it, which songs, etc. It’s always in flux, but it’s also very organic. We recently sent 3 songs to Alex Arrowsmith to mix and master so that we can have a demo cd so that we can hopefully show it to venues for paid gigs. I’ve been doing the lion’s share of the production as far as setting up the drums (mostly djembe and hand percussion because we want something that sounds natural and reproducable live), with Dustin and I sharing guitar duties. We hope to get Randy Gerhart of Johannin fame (I used to play drums for them) to play the bass on most if not all of the tracks.

I’ll also be sitting in with Dustin and Andrea Rose for an upcoming gig at Naked Winery in Hood River. If we’re lucky we’ll get Austin there to do a few songs too! The gig will be on May 18th from 7-10pm!

Check out the video here:

I’m extremely pleased with Henk’s film editing skills! He took a lot of miscellaneous “making of” footage and interspersed songs from the album to give potential buyers a good preview of what they can expect. Also, Henk has been shopping for mastering companies as well. I’m extremely excited to hear the final product – It’s always fun to collaborate since so many suprises are to be had! Some people don’t like collaboration for that same reason, but sometimes it’s fun to put control into someone else’s hands. It’s a good exercise for the ego!

Click HERE to go to my kickstarter page!

Speaking of collaboration, I’ve recently started work on vocals for another V-bander, Steve Vincent. Steve plays guitar on the opening track for “enjoy…” His music is completely different than anything I’ve attempted singing before. It falls into the hard-rock catagory… it’s definitely sort of metal-ish. For this project I’m developing melodies for some songs, and also singing some completed songs as well. I’m not really contributing lyrics, so in a sense, I’m acting as a session singer only. I’ve completed 3.5 out of 9 songs that I’ll be singing for the project. More on that as it develops!

For starters, I recently finished the video to another cover song, this time with Margie and Erik. I’ve decided to make it a goal to produce youtube videos with friends in an effort to collaborate more with all the rad musicians I know, expand my fan base, and stay sharp as a musician. Collaboration stretches you and often makes you travel to different places than you would otherwise. So please check it out! If you like it, why not download it for free and listen to it anytime you like? Head over to the Free Music section and grab it before I decide to take it down.

I’ve been composing the music for Portly Pig Studio’s Gollom Project on an ongoing basis. I’ll be going to down to LA in April after I finish the music for the final draft. The project, which is both art installation and stop-motion animation, should be up and ready to run soon enough. Until then, here’s a little teaser trailer.

Enjoy It While It Lasts, the forthcoming album from Philhelmon, is completely in the can at this point. We’ve started a kickstarter site in the hopes of funding a decent pressing of the album. I’ll update this page when it launches so that you can have first dibs on a brand new CD! The official website can be found HERE. If you want to learn more about the project, check out the Philhelmon link at the top of the page.

Also, keep your eyes peeled for a review of the album from Progworld (or Prgowereld if you’re from the Netherlands!).

Progworld – “Enjoy…” Blurb

Wilson, Fifer, Rose is steadily chipping away at our debut album and it’s sounding great. I’ve also started contributing vocals to another project that got started through a great website called V-band.de but more on that as it develops!

To learn more about the project, click here.

Preview of Stop Motion Game “60 frames per minute”:

Explanation of “Movement is Life” installation:

Henk (from Philhelmon) edited together a stellar video of one of the tracks off our upcoming album. It’s pretty cool to think that all of the people in this video are thousands of miles away! Tiger and I co-wrote the lyrics with Henk. Enjoy!

Also, Wilson, Fifer, & Rose  have their first gig on Saturday the 26th at some Winery in Tigard. I’ll post more about that later… I should probably figure out where that gig is happening anyway!

I Met with Austin and Dustin Thursday. We did some recording for the forthcoming Wilson, Fifer, & Rose album and then goofed off a little by doing some covers of some of our favorite harmony-laden songs. Check it:

I’ve been slaving away at the vocals for the album “enjoy it while it lasts” which is a project by the international band Philhelmon that I joined through V-band. Henk, the mastermind behind the project, has been sending me files over the interwebs thanks to a very cool file sharing system called dropbox. We’ve decided that we’re going to try our very hardest to have the album out by March or April of 2012. We’re about half way done with the recording process, so it has started to occur to me that I really need to get my butt in gear!

In other news, I’ve recently acquired a mac since I’m tired of losing my files due to my PC’s crashing. I’ll be setting it up and recording with that. I’ll be switching to Logic recording software (yes, Adobe Audition has way too many limitations) within the next few months. Let’s hope the learning curve isn’t too rough.

Wilson, Fifer, & Rose have been meeting at my house on Thursday nights for the past few weeks for recording, rehearsal, song development, and general hi-jinks. We have 2 songs pretty much in the can, and hope to have 3 soon so that we can start peddling our wares to festivals, wineries, and any other place that’s willing to pay the price to hear our carefully rehearsed harmonies.

More later.

Hello all! I am a singer/ songwriter from the Portland area. I play in some local bands, write music for film, and sing as often as I can. Have a look around and see if there’s anything you like.