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Selected Film Music

2000 Good Housekeeping (Director: Frank Novak)
co-composed score (to be released)

2000 Freak Weather (to be released)
co-composed score

1999 Chuck and Buck (Director: Miguel Arteta)
licensed musical cue

1999 Live Nude Girls Unite! (Julia Query and Vicky Funari)
licensed musical cue

1992 Night On Earth (Director: Jim Jarmusch)
collaboration with Tom Waits

1991 Wild At Heart (Director: David Lynch)
musical collaboration on underscoring

1987 Candy Mountain (Director: Robert Frank)
musical collaboration on underscoring



Selected Television/Internet Music

2001 Goodbye Song (Cartoonnetwork.com)
Composed, sang and performed music

2001 Get Along Little Doggie (Cartoonnetwork.com)
Sang and performed song

2000 Romanov (Wildbrain.com)
Composed and performed music for 24 segment series

2000 Great Big Cartoony Club (Cartoonnetwork.com)
Composed, sang and performed music

2000 Philo (Cartoonnetwork.com)
Composed and performed music

1988 Encyclopedia (Children's Television Workshop)
co-composed and performed music for 23 segment series



Hal Willner Projects

1999 “Whoops I’m an Indian” (Pussyfoot Records)

1995 Hole (MTV "Unplugged")
clarinet, harmonica, baritone & penny whistle

1993 Kathy Acker “Re-doing Childhood”
composed, co-produced, performed music under spoken word

1993 William Burroughs "Spare Ass Annie" (Island)
performed music under spoken word

1989 Allen Ginsberg "The Lion for Real" (Island)
composed music under spoken word

1987 Walt Disney Tribute "Stay Awake" (A&M)
clarinet, ocarina

1983 Thelonius Monk Tribute (A&M)
multiple instruments

Jim White (Luakabop)

1996 "Wrong-Eyed Jesus"
trombone, tenor sax, saw, harmonica, slide clarinet

Marc Ribot - Rootless Cosmopolitans

1992 "Requiem for What's His Name" (Disque Du Crepiscule)
alto and tenor sax, sona, clarinet, duck calls

1989 "Rootless Cosmopolitans" (Island)
horns



Solo recordings

1999 “I Like You (A Lot)” (Akron Cracker/Birdman)

1997 “Ralph Sounds” (Birdman)

2001 Jonathan Richman (Vapor Records)
"Her Mystery Not of High Heels
and Eye Shadow"


Tom Waits Projects (Island)
Listen to what Tom Waits has to say about Ralph. (fast forward to 14:02 if it doesn't do it by itself) (get real audio)

1998 “Mule Variations”
various instruments

1997 Wim Wenders film soundtrack “The End of Violence”
trumpet

1997 Kerouac tribute album
baritone sax

1996 "Dead Man Walking" Soundtrack:
hand claps, bass clarinet

1993 "Black Rider"
c.b. clarinet, bass clarinet, baritone horn, alto sax

1992 "Bone Machine"
c.b. clarinet, tenor & alto sax

1991 "Night On Earth"
alto & tenor sax, trumpet, pan pipes, violin, baritone horn, clarinet

1987 "Big Time"
alto & tenor sax, baritone horn, clarinet

1986 "Frank's Wild Years"
alto & tenor sax, baritone horn

1985 "Rain Dogs"
alto & bass sax, clarinet

Oranj Symphonette (Gramavision/Rykodisc)

1999 “The Oranj Album”

1996 “Oranj Symphonette Plays Mancini”


B-52's (Warner Bros.)

1983 "Whammy", sax
1982 "Mesopotamia", sax
1981 "Party Mix", sax


Tin Huey

1999 “Disinformation”
co-composer and band member

1979 "Contents Dislodged During Shipment" (Warner Bros.)
co-composer and band member