Projects
Conspiracies
Bands, tours, records, theater pieces, films, and machines.
Third Wall Studio
The animation studio I founded in May 2025. Animation with filmmakers and artists, mixing live action, animation and generative AI, with Burlap as the canvas. The 2026 shorts with Doron Lev, Jacob McCoy, Savas and Jonathan Arons.
Burlap
The native Mac app Third Wall builds and works in: an infinite canvas for visual creation and context management, connected to models from OpenAI, Google, Runway and ByteDance. The canvas under the 2026 shorts.
The Gralbum Collective
The group I founded to publish music and interactive art as apps, releasing work by Bora Yoon, Adam Matta, Leah Coloff and Moon Hooch.
Book of Sarth
My first full-length solo release, 2012, built as an iPad app combining a graphic novel and a concept album.
One track, “Awakening (To Blacklist)”, has its own page.
Lulu
The 2011 album by Lou Reed and Metallica. Its songs began as the score Lou Reed and I wrote for Robert Wilson’s staging of Frank Wedekind’s Lulu plays at the Berliner Ensemble.
Its closing track, “Junior Dad”, has its own page.
Metal Machine Trio
The improvising trio of Lou Reed, Ulrich Krieger and me, formed at REDCAT in Los Angeles in October 2008. Its live album The Creation of the Universe came out in 2009.
A later recording became The Creation of the Universe, ambisonic installation.
Yellow Pony
Two short European tours in 2009 with Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson, billed The Yellow Pony and Other Songs and Stories. I played Continuum Fingerboard and resampled their voices live.
Poughkeepsie
Joe Kelly’s 2018 short film. Its main theme is the melody of my “Softly Questioning,” from Reflections, Vol. 1.
Hidden Books, Hidden Stories
Lou Reed’s pavilion at the New York Photo Festival, May 2010, and its slideshow at St. Ann’s Warehouse. The festival’s upload names me.
Vivid LIVE 2010
The two week festival at the Sydney Opera House curated by Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson. Metal Machine Trio played it, along with a fifty person noise band at the opening and about a dozen unplanned jams.
Lou Reed’s 2011 European tour
Lou Reed’s run through the European festival circuit in the summer of 2011, with an eight-piece band. I posted twice from the road.
Lou Reed’s song band
The touring group Lou Reed used for his song repertoire. I joined in 2008, playing Continuum Fingerboard and processing the other musicians live.
Lou Reed spring 2008 U.S. tour
Lou Reed’s United States tour of April and May 2008, running through the Northeast and then south by bus as far as Memphis. It was my first tour with Reed.
Power and Serenity
Tai chi meditation music Lou Reed and I made together over four years, for Master Ren Guangyi’s DVD, on sale from July 2010. The first thing we ever worked on.
Lucibel Crater
The rock and electronic trio of Leah Coloff, Paul Chuffo and me. Its album The Family Album came out in 2008.
Number19
The band I formed in Brooklyn in 1999 with Tony Diodore, Leah Coloff and Mark Righter. Its album Suspension came out in 2001.