The Audiorium

Back in 1980-1983 on Capitol Hill in Seattle, Washington I was at Soundwork Studio. This is the soundtrack I did for a lovely collaboration with Marc Smith-Slosky, dancer, choreographer, and visual artist Jon Gierlich.

It was a huge undertaking for me, my first major work using the studio as instrument. We did several performances in town and actually got a couple of good reviews.

It was one of those rare projects of a lifetime… The right place and time, the most amazing people, we had resources, space, talent up the kazoo, and a lot of energy. Jon passed recently (Oct 2011), he was a rare breed of artist I’ve ever worked with extraordinary conceptual skills. Marc too, but I’ve lost track of her. She spent hours with me listening to my sketches and sharing ideas.

I wish I had video… Jon built a construct of woven tree limbs with braided tunnels and constructs. Marc had an amazing ensemble that moved, danced, and explored the space in dark tinted muted colors with dancers almost glowing in the switching light colors in a mist.


I’ve lost track of Marc… I hope she is well and happy. She was also wonderful to work with and spent hours and hours talking, planning, listening to my sketches…

Life is good… If you’re lucky, you get to hangout with some cool people and do some cool stuff. Living grateful…