Bio
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I’m a guitarist and instrument-builder. I like playing free-improvised music, Piedmont-style fingerpicking, and percussive/noisy stuff. I’ve built stringed instruments ranging from electric guitars, basses and mandolins to modern reconstructions of historical instruments and instruments made from repurposed materials or found objects.
In 2017, I worked with the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art to restore the instruments of Gunnar Schonbeck as part of an interactive exhibit. I built replicas of Schonbeck’s “Triangular cellos” for Bennington College, and participate in instrument-building workshops with Hastings-on-Hudson based collective Bash the Trash.
Photo by María Laura Copperwheat