Doug is an artist based in Portland, Oregon. His current work is concerned with the development of live electronic music systems on custom made instruments of his own design. His work has been presented all over the United States with a wide variety of musicians, dancers and visual artists from around the world. He has also scored original music for independent films, plays and dance installations. He is mostly known for his highly idiosyncratic guitar work. Doug investigates the reciprocal contamination of creative means and sensibilities. He uses varied organic and electronic sound instrumentation, light gradients (sensors), space and performative movement in connection with the conceptual development of live electronic music systems that he has created. He was also asked by the city of Portland Oregon to create a large scale sound installation for the PICA TBA festival in 2011. http://vimeo.com/30169300 Along with this festival he has played many others: Earshot Jazz Festival, Seattle Improvised Music Festival (10 times over 25 years), Olympia Experimental Music festival (8 times over a 15 year period), Kill Rock Stars, NWEMO (Northwest Electro Acoustic Music Festival), Eugene Noise Festival, No music festival and the Richard Forman Festival. He has also built experimental musical instruments for the band ZZ Top, Smegma, guitarist Bill Horist and many others from around the world. People he has worked with: Christine Abdelnour, Greg Kelley, Wally Shoup, Jeph Jerman, Negativeland, Sun Ra Archestra, Paul Hessien, Fred Lonberg Holm, Jack Wright, Bryan Eubanks and Climax Golden Twins among many others.
