New York, NY
Born 1969, Chicago, IL
Most people who do observe what I do seem to be confused by what they see as "genre jumping." I don't get it. The genre isn't the effort; the use of the genre can be part of the effort, but it is the desire to know, understand, or misunderstand, if you're so inclined, why it is what you think it is. To me, it's all work, all an effort to learn and then issue a field report on your findings. Engineering feeds into writing, arranging feeds into editing, film lighting feeds into mic placement, and so on.
1980 B.A. in Music, DePaul University Most important teachers: Jean-Luc Godard, Nicolas Roeg, Dusan Makavejev, Robert Downey Sr., Jacques Tati, Derek Bailey, Luc Ferrari, Charles Ives, and Tony Conrad.
2000-- Member, Sonic Youth, Fenno'berg (a.k.a. Horst und Smail mit Markus), and other groups. Collaborations with Henry Kaiser, John Fahey, Wilco, Tony Conrad, and others.
2002--Working on a series of "re-edited" films including Last Year at Marienbad, completely restructured to eventally last six hours, and up <---> out, a three-minute section of Brian DePalma's Blow Out, to simulate the structure of Michael Snow's <---->(Back and Forth).
1991--Continuing project to restore and reissue work of artists such as John Fahey, Derek Bailey, Tony Conrad, Arnold Dreyblatt, Alvin Curran, Phill Niblock, and others.
Performer or producer of over 200 albums to date.
2002 Insignificance, Drag City, CD
2002 Sonic Youth: Murray Street, Interscope, CD
2000 White Out: Drunken Mass (with Lin Cubertson and Tom Surgal; O'Rourke on guitar and Powerbook), Ecstatic Peace, CD
1999 Eureka, DC162, CD/LP
1999 The Magic Sound of Fenno'berg (with Fenno'berg), Mego, CD
1997 Bad Timing, Drag City, CD/LP
1997 Happy Days, Revenant, CD
1995 Terminal Pharmacy, Tzadik, CD
1993 Rules of Reduction, Metamkine, CD3
1989 Remove the Need, Complacency, cassette; Extreme, CD, 1993; P-Vine, CD, 1999
2002 Photo catalog incorporating Japanese public safety posters with stills from The Poseidon Adventure, Neon Gallery, Brossarp, Sweden
2001 and a 1,2,3,4, in Bit Streams, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
