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My band, Oryx and Crake was recently mentioned in Paste magazine as one of Atlanta's top ten "Bands to Watch". Click the picture below to read more:

I'm posting this a couple of days late but I wanted to share anyway.

My wife, Rebekah, and I were recently interviewed along with a lot of other musical couples to discuss the pros and cons and otherwise of making music together as a couple. Click the picture below for the interview:

So true... Link to article from the always hilarious Onion. 

AUSTIN, TX—Sound engineers from around the country converged on the Hilton Garden Inn Saturday for their annual convention in which they discuss their ponytails. "It's always fun to catch up with other sound guys, just so we can swap stories about changing out bad cables, smoke cigarettes together, and see how our ponytails are," said Joe Spencer, a sound engineer from Kansas City, MO whose 11-inch ponytail was poking out the hole of his Zildjian ball cap and obscuring the tour dates on his Megadeth T-shirt. "But despite our cool jobs, it's pretty much like any other convention. We talk about new Mag-Lite innovations, see presentations on ponytail-friendly headphones, and swap tips, like how, in a pinch, you can use a mic clip as a clasp to secure your ponytail." At the close of the weekend-long event, attendees will reportedly observe a moment of silence in honor of the late Ted "Smash" Bailey, a sound engineer who had an impressive 24-incher and told Peter Gabriel to fuck off in 1983.

Read the article from designingsound.org here: http://designingsound.org/2011/11/the-recordist-m60-machine-gun-hd-library/

Anyone interested in sound design should, at least, be familiar with GRM Tools. I use these plug-ins for creative sound design, but also to add some interest in my music mixes... making them less static. 

Here is sound designer great, Dane Davis, talking about how he uses them:

I recently composed the music ID for the online magazine Scene Missing. Here is a link to the first episode:

I was featured in Paste Magzine's Father's Day shout out along with 32 other musician dads. Click the image below to read more: