Conspirator
Billy Martin
Drummer of Medeski Martin & Wood, and a visual artist. His Omnisphere was a gralbum in the making.
Billy Martin (born 1963, New York) is a drummer, percussionist, composer and visual artist, one third of Medeski Martin & Wood since 1991. He runs Amulet Records, played with John Lurie’s Lounge Lizards, and has published Riddim: Clave of African Origin and Wandering; his prints, paintings and drawings have been shown at the Cartagena Biennial and The Drawing Center. In 2026 he completed a Watermill Center residency with The Start of Wind, a theater work for a bamboo orchestra he built.
The illustrations behind Billy Martin’s Omnisphere echoed of a Xenakis score. Bits of musical staff decorated with half-moons, C-clefs, and spiders floated in space.
Ariel Bitran, Stereophile, April 23, 2014
Omnisphere
The Gralbum Collective listed Omnisphere, his drawings with his music, as a coming title, and a preview was on the iPads at the launch on April 9, 2014. My old WordPress site had a conspirator page for him.
The creditBilly Martin’s Omnisphere was a Gralbum Collective title in development, previewed at the collective’s launch on April 9, 2014; Sarth Calhoun founded the collective.
My thoughts
The profile is from public sources, linked where they appear. What we made is the record on this site and the sources cited above.