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History of Music Media

A visual timeline of the history of music, told through its physical media from 1877 to the present. This was part of my exhibition "The Art of Noise," which was on display in Renfro Library at Mars Hill University, NC, for the 2016-17 and…

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Dune Music

How hyped was I for Denis Villeneuve's DUNE in 2021? So hyped that I took a deep ocean dive into music inspired by Dune -- both Frank Herbert's novels and David Lynch's movie -- and resurfaced with 91 hours of Dune-adjacent music. An old-styley J-card…

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Growing Green (Season Cycle 1: Spring)

Kermette the Froglet wants to welcome you to the verdant world of Spring. Season Cycle was conceived as a 4-CD set that I would mix, design and assemble almost in realtime, completing each CD by the advent of its season. I decided that the title…

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Sapphire Skies (Season Cycle 2: Summer)

Hey hey, it's volume two of my 2020 series of CDs to match the seasons. Summer is a boisterous time, but after collecting possible photos my design took a different turn, keying in to the sounds of summer nights both spooky and serene. Booklet…

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Gold and Wine (Season Cycle 3: Autumn)

Carrying on with the Season Cycle series from 2020, here is the third of four. As DJ DanK, I'm the audio selector / mixer / editor of the whole shebang, as well as graphic designer. The animal star for autumn is not a cute kitten,…

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Silver Birches (Season Cycle 4: Winter)

The concluding volume of the four-CD Season Cycle (2020). As ever, the audio selection / editing is all my doing, as well as the graphic design. Perhaps it suits the year-end feeling of putting business to rest and leaning in to relaxation, but I did…

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The Connection

The Connection is a '60s Beat-era play about a bunch of musicians and junkies (with a Venn diagram overlap of near 100%) jamming, riffing, and freaking out while waiting for their man. I drew this poster image for a mid-'90s revival of the play in…

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Aftermath

Aftermath is a group of four oil paintings, made to illustrate a hypothetical environmentally-oriented magazine assignment. I made these so long ago... look, it was so long ago that oil painting was seen as a perfectly reasonable medium for illustration because we didn't have computers.…

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Music Media Formats

These two exhibit cases (and their accompanying "swoosh") feature a more granular look at the past 140+ years of physical music media than I was able to include in the wall-length Timeline. Mostly this is because the media are increasingly small as the timeline progresses,…

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Upstream Consulting

As the in-house graphic designer at UpStart Communications from 1995-98, I was tapped to create the logo and stationery for an offshoot company (an upstart, even), Upstream Consulting. Here it is in action on letterhead (I really like the footer), a mailing label and a…

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Rudolph 2.0

Some tech humor for the holidays. I was given free rein by my employer to design anything at all, as long as it was both Christmas-y and hi-tech. This was years before Google Glass. Where are my royalty checks?

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