Music for Film/Video/Interactive Media
feature films:
Rising Sun - Phil Kaufman, director - pianist
Suckerfish (feature) - Brien Burroughs, director - co-composer
Virtue (feature) - Camera Obscura, producer/director - contributing
composer [with Bob Davis]
Shelf Life (feature) - Paul Bartel, director - contributing
composer
Bernaltown (incredibly independent feature;
Gregory Gavin, director) - composer
Martians Go Home (feature) - David Odell, director - arranger; actor,
musician [with The STUPEDS]
Vegas In Space (feature) - Fish/Ford Films - principal composer [with
T. Spence, R. Fischer, Bob Davis, and earwax productions]
The Warm, Wet Spots (despite the lurid title, it's an educational film)
- Ruby Unger-Peterson, producer - composer
television:
Winter Steele (part of MTV's "Liquid TV") - Cintra
Wilson, writer - composer
Felix the Cat - CBS - accordionist
Sexy Urban Legends (Playboy Channel) - composer
Orley After Dark (pilot) - theme
composer
Charles M. Schwab commercial - composer
(with Doug McKechnie)
computer games/interactive media:
Secret Paths In The Forest - Purple Moon, producer - music, sound
design, voice editing [with Bob Davis]
Tiny Tank - And Now, producer - songs
[with Merle Kessler]
Planet Dexter's Grossology - Segasoft,
producer - songs [with Merle Kessler]
Apple Performa orientation and boot-up logo -
Pineapple USA, producer - all audio [with Bob Davis]
Tales of the World - Pineapple USA,
producer - composer/sound designer [with Bob Davis]
Theatrical Composer/Sound Designer
Broke: Based On A True Story, Rage
To Rent, Roadkill on the Information Highway,
Don't Even Think
of Parking Here, and
Ian Shoales in 'Table For One' - Merle
Kessler (The Marsh, SF; Dance Theatre Wkshp, NY; One-Act Theater, SF;
national tour) - composer, co-star
Hitting for the Cycle - David
Dower, dir./Bay Package, producer (Magic Theater, SF; Chicago; New Jersey) -
composer, sound design
Josh Kornbluth in Ben Franklin Unplugged - solo performance (David Dower, dir.) - sound design
It's a Pretty Good Life -
Kathleen Cramer/Overtone Industries (Actors' Gang, LA) - composer
Ubu's In America - Merle
Kessler/Fratelli Bologna (Bayfront Theater, SF) - composer, actor
A Line Around the Block and Pretty,
Witty and Gay - Marga Gomez (international
tours) - sound design
Be Here Wow! - Scoop Nisker
(Theater Artaud) - sound design
Virtually Yours, beta 1.0 - Kate
Bornstein (national tour) - sound design
Goddess of the Hunt - Merle
Kessler, librettist (Life On The Water, SF; Marsh; The Met, LA) - composer,
musical director
Standard of the Breed - John
Steppling (Cast Theatre, LA) - composer [with Don Preston]
Musical Director/Accompanist
String Of Pearls: six new
mini-operas - Overtone Industries, producer
(Bayfront; Marsh; Carnegie Recital
Hall, NY)
True Fiction Magazine -
improvised narratives (SF, LA, Finland)
Pulp Playhouse - Brian Lohmann,
director - improvised pulp stories (SF, Seattle, Los Angeles, HBO Aspen Comedy
Festival)
Weber Family Christmas, To
Get To The Other Side, Gorilla Theatre -
Fratelli Bologna (Climate, Life On
The Water, Bayfront, Magic)
Bay Area TheaterSports - improv
games (New Performance Gallery, New Conservatory Theater, Bayfront)
Tintypes - Kyte, Marvin &
Pearle (San Jose Repertory Theatre)
Robin Williams -
1979 U.S. tour, et al.
San Francisco Comedy Celebration Day - 1983 to present
Duck's Breath Mystery Theater - displaced mid-Westerners
The Pointless Sisters - comical musedy
The Original Artists (w/Penn Jillette & Steven Banks) - offensive rock band
Johnny Lonely's Unhappy Hour - depressing lounge act
Commedia Bowl - funny football
game
Dirk & Blaine - international spokesuperstars (for SBC and other
businesses)
Other Theater Work
A Karen Carpenter Christmas - Morey Goldstein & Tom Ross (Marsh) - musician,
actor, associate musical director
Rapmaster Ronnie - Gary Trudeau &
Elizabeth Swados (Music Hall Theater, SF) - musician
Deer Rose - Tony Pellegrino (Theatre on the
Square) - musician
Producer/Director
Comedians Sing for Disability
Rights
The Society To Undertake the Preservation of Endangered Dumb Songs (The
STUPEDS) /The Dumb Songs Festival
Rick & Ruby's Last Prom
An Improvised Elvis Musical - BATS Improv
Smoke x 7 - produced (for
Tenderloin Opera Company) and composed music
Television Appearances
Joe Franklin
Mork & Mindy
Evening at the Improv
HBO Young Comedians
PBS Comedy Tonight
Merv Griffin
Mike Douglas
Entertainment Tonight
Don Kirschner's Rock Concert
Fridays
Billy Crystal
Maria Manhattan's The Box Lunch
Johnny Jellybean
Radio Appearances
West Coast Weekend/West Coast
Live - frequent guest, occasional
house pianist
Dr. Science vs. The Sea Monkeys From Space
- Dan Coffey (Duck's Breath Homemade Radio/NPR) -
composer
Marc & Mars - Merle & Mary Kessler
(Duck's Breath/APR) - composer, musician, writer, actor
Dr. Demento ("Dice", "Dr. Demento") [with Rick
Right]
Film Appearances
Haiku Tunnel (Kornbluth Brothers) - actor
Martians Go Home (David Odell) - Martian
Woodstock (Maysle Brothers) - audience
member
People Who Probably Remember Me Having Played With Them
The Bobs, Dick Bright & His Sounds of Delight, Norton Buffalo, Ralph Carney, Andrew "Dice" Clay, Club Foot Orchestra, The Comedy Store Players, Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen, Culture Clash, Bob Dorough, The Groundlings, Dan Hicks, Holy Modal Rounders, Little Roger & The Goosebumps, Micheal McShane & Greg Proops, Penn & Teller, Paul Rubens as Pee-Wee Herman, Jason Serinus (whistler extraordinaire), Theatresports (London, Los Angeles), George Tirebiter, Lily Tomlin, UC Santa Barbara Marching Band
People Who Probably Don't
Sir Bob Geldof, Allen Ginsberg
(Cow Palace, 12/15/96), Nina Hagen, Florence Henderson, Tom Smothers, Tom Waits
oh, come on: when was the last time you saw Nina
Hagen and Florence Henderson mentioned in the same breath?
producer/performer:
The Whistleaires - 120
Christmas Favorites (Whirl)
True Fiction Magazine -
On The Radio, 1994-97
performer:
Robin Williams - Reality:
What A Concept (Casablanca)
Joe Satriani - Flying In A Blue Dream (demo only)
The Residents -
Cube-E (Enigma)
The Big Bubble (Ralph)
George and James / American Composers Series, Vol. I (Ralph)
Intermission (Ralph)
"Satisfaction" (Ralph)
"Hit the Road, Jack" (Ralph)
various artists - Goobers
(TecTones)
Tango No. 9 - All Them
Cats in Recoleta (Spillhouse)
Legends of Accordion (Rhino
compilation) - with Those Darn Accordions!
Club Foot Orchestra - Wild Beasts
(Rastascan)
Orchestra Nostalgico - Club Foot Orchestra plays Music of Nino Rota (Rastascan)
Big Lou's Polka Casserole (Accordion Princess/Don't Quit Your Day Job,
reissued by Cleveland International)
various artists - The Asshole Monologues
Broke: Based On A True Story - original cast album
Education
1962-68 Bertha
Keller piano, music theory
1970-72 New York
University music history and theory,
theater, computer science
1973-74 Berklee
College of Music music arranging and
composition
1976 U.C.
Santa Barbara music theory and history
1984-86 SF School of
Dramatic Arts musical theater
1987 NEA/Ben
Krywosz opera composition
Teaching Experience
song improvisation - TheatreSports (SF, London, Los Angeles, Seattle, Ventura), Tampere and Helsinki (Finland), Ashland Shakespeare Festival, American Conservatory Theater, San Francisco Opera, Stanford University, University of San Francisco, numerous Bay Area schools; private corporations (including Ernst & Young, Arthur Andersen, et al.)
keyboard improvisation - Bay Area TheatreSports, Tamalpais High School
Hard To Say, Exactly
Those Darn Accordions! - founding
member emeritus
Ethel Merman Memorial Choir - director of bad attitude
Tonal Chaos - co-improvisor
Strokes
SF Bay Guardian Outstanding Local
Discovery (GOLDIE) Award
Bay Area Critics' Circle Best Score nomination - Reverence for the Dead [with David Schein]
Golden Gate Bridge 50th Anniversary Song Contest, 1st Prize - "Lady of the
Bay" [with Staton Rabin]
Cabaret Gold Awards - several of 'em [with Rick & Ruby]
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