Musical Activities
Bands
Improv Karaoke - avant-garde free noise jam
(2023 - present)
Saxophones etc, founder, organizer
Monthly improvised experimental jam session
2023/2024 Now Society Residency
(Instagram)
Gander Jam - groovy open mic jam
(2018 - present)
Keyboards, sax, founder, organizer
Monthly groove and funk based jam session
Seriously one of my favourite nights of the month
Come play! Come sing! Come jam! (Instagram)
Mandelbrat - free-jazz/noise/punk
(2017 - present)
sax and a lot of effects pedals
Collaborations with many local jazz and free-jazz performers
We released an album on 9/11, that’s a highlight
Cordie M Sad - emo/pop-punk
(2018 - present)
keys, synth, sax
Performances at Vancouver Emo Night
(Instagram)
History Of Gunpowder – experimental blues
(2019 – 2024)
Baritone sax, effects
Germany/Italy tours in 2019, 2022
Vancouver Jazz Fest performance 2023
Residency in Cumberland, BC
Balkan Shmalkan - Balkan brass band
(2014 - 2023)
Soprano sax, bass sax
Performance at Commodore Ballroom
Performances at numerous festivals such as
ArtsWells, Quadrapalooza, Woodstove, Koksilah
Babyface Brass – jazz/funk
(2016 – 2024)
Tenor sax
Regularly seen busking downtown
Performances at Victoria Ska Fest, ArtsWells, Quadrapalooza, Woodstove Festival
Flown out to Calgary for a single gig
Polka Time – polka (punk?)
(2018 - 2020)
Clarinet, tenor sax
Performance on local variety show Talent Time!
Sold out performances at Alpen Hall, The Cambie, and many others
(occasionally performing as The Dreadnoughts)
(Facebook)
Some other cool one-off projects and recordings I’ve been part of:
Davidson, Allen, Schoening - 𓁿
esoteric free-jazz
tenor sax, bass sax
Ducksback - Basin’ With The Ducksback Quintet
groovy weird modern jazz
soprano sax, tenor sax
LAND ASSEMBLY - get in the hearse first
straight up noise music
synths, pedals, noise makers
Dread Monday - Roots
chill ambient electronic stuff
synths, production
New Horizons Pluto - Polar
groovy improv vibes
keys, synths, sax, production
Raccoon Metal - Collected Works of Raccoon Metal
raccoon metal, it’s a genre of music that raccoons play, don’t ask questions
Cats In Heat - ”Where’s Brad?” a blue album
one of the earliest, and possibly one of the strangest, albums I ever recorded
…even more artists that I periodically record/perform with, or have in the past:
Rare Americans, Missy D, Brass Camel, Chase The Bear, Rude City Riot, Hatim, Bo Henrik, Adewolf, Holliwell, Sister Says, Hard Rubber Orchestra, Cat Madden, Emily Molloy, Linaldo Sans, Happiest Big Band On Earth, Los Furios, The Dreadnoughts, Bad Magic, Holy Felix, Russian Tim & Pavel Bures, Jerk in the Can, Lil Mishka, Bestie, BRASS, Sadie Campbell, Edarem, Green Penny Folks, VaudeVille Vagabonds, Ivy League Brawlers, Monsoon Season, Wet Nightmare, erk, Clayboy, The Phonix, Cookin With Brass, Marianas Trench (yes that Marianas Trench, it was just one recording session ok?)
and many more that I’m sure I’m forgetting…
Compositions
(of the “serious art music” variety)
Missy D @ Chan Centre MD (2025)
10 piece live band hip-hop
Musical Director/arranger for Missy D’s Chan Centre performance
Gentle Push (2024)
Wind orchestra
Commissioned by West Vancouver Youth Band
Space Jamboree (2023)
Jazz-metal big band + 10 guest vocalists
Space Elevator arrangements of music from local performers
Low Expectations (2021)
Bass saxophone ensemble
Commissioned by Redshift Music for their online video series
Edible Jams (2020)
Open instrumentation school band
Commissioned by the Salt Spring Island Middle School Band
Quarantunes (2020)
Open instrumentation
Collaborative distanced recording project during 2020’s covid lockdown
Flashlight (2019)
Chamber orchestra
Commissioned by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
Woke Floke Gaze (2018)
Open instrumentation
Commissioned by Redshift Music and Ecstatic Waves
Sandbar (2018)
16 channel sound installation
Commissioned by Redshift Music
Fuck Duck Ancestry (2018)
Open instrumentation + dice, graphic score
Commissioned by Ecstatic Waves
Nobody (2018)
Open instrumentation & soloist
Commissioned by Lara Neuss, Colorado USA
Tesphne (2017)
16 channel sound installation
Commissioned by Redshift Music
Just Listen (2017)
Bass clarinet quartet
Commissioned by Ecstatic Waves
Sloove The Traction (2017)
Jazz large ensemble
Originally written for Space Elevator,
performed by Hard Rubber Orchestra
...Maybe there's more? I forget, who's keeping track right?
Film/Commercial Music
Commercials
Pyrrha - Game of Thrones Collection
BC Hydro - Consruction Update
City of Nanimo - Sort Toss & Roll
Generations Laser
CAPSi
CastleCS
and probably more...
Film Scores
Quality Time (2025)
Maya (2021)
Showstopper (2019)
Help Wanted (2016)
The Delicate Art of Puppetry (2015)
A Gift For Amelia (2014)
Crossing The Line (2013)
After The Beep (2013)
When The Clock Strikes Midnight (2012)
and probably more...
Postmodern Records
(Listen, we haven’t done anything with this label in years. Life got busy and other musical activities took priority, but I’m still pretty stoked about our defunct old experimental jazz label, so I’m leaving it here on my website. Please enjoy the exploits of a bygone era, maybe we’ll bring it back again some day…)
Anyways
Postmodern Records was founded by myself and my good friend and frequent collaborator Nikko Whitworth back in 2013 or so, and acted as both a record label and a collective to help promote and curate the vast amount of experimental and exploratory music found in and around Vancouver.
The label primarily focused on music that may not normally be represented by other labels or outlets and hoped to be able to shine a light on the bands and groups playing locally who's sound cannot so easily fall under one or two descriptive titles.
Other Musical Activities
Session Work
Lots and lots of sessions at lots and lots of studios in and around Vancouver.
In addition to recording with a butt-load of artists and producers, I also often get called to arrange for studio sessions, preparing sheet music for horn sections and string sections as well as preparing demos for clients.
Solo Work
I have tracks upon tracks of my own writing/recording/producing/collaborations that spans across many genres such as hiphop, musique concrete, grindcore, electronic, jazz, punk, pretty much anything. Some of these get released, some never see the light of day, maybe I'll put out an anthology one day...
Lectures etc
Every so often people ask me to come talk about things I do.
I’ve spoken at university and high school music classes, been invited to give workshops on topics from effects pedals to big band arranging, and have been a guest conductor for various local ensembles.
Theatre/Dance Work
Rocky Horror Picture Show (Infidels Jazz 2025)
Small Stage Dance Company Musical Director (2019-2020)
Nightmare Before Christmas (Geekenders 2018)
Fun Home (Arts Club 2018)
Sunday In The Park With George (United Players 2017)
Rocky Horror Picture Show (Geekenders 2016)
Heathers The Musical, twice (Gently With A Chainsaw 2016, Pipedream 2016)
Oliver! (Theatre Under The Stars 2016)
Legally Blonde The Musical (Theatre Under The Stars 2015)
Triumph of Love (UBC 2015)
Cat Killer (Presentation House 2015)
The Gondoliers (North Shore Light Opera Society 2015)
Cabaret (Pipedream 2014)