1998/2003 Merlin with Cricket-A 20 minute improvisational guitar solo over a live recording of nighttime June crickets and tree frogs in the Ohio river valley. Put to b-roll hypnotic static TV footage from a performance piece done in 2003. Smoke a bowl and …Continue reading →
2000/2001/2002/2003 Aught Art pt. 1-Random shots of random artsy crap I did, saw, invented, made up, whatever. Shot on a Minolta 35mm film camera and aged stressed with a Nikon D5100. 2004 Ought Art pt. 1
2001 2002-Available on: iTunes Spotify Napster Deezer Experimental multitracking and live noise intensified by the end of the 20th century. Enjoy? Flash player not working? Try the Spotify…
2001 Art Damage Benefit (Live)-Available on: Spotify iTunes Amazon A long time ago, in a city on the border of the Upland South and the Midwest in the greatest empire the world has ever known, there was a public radio station called 88.3 …Continue reading →
2001 Art Night Out-Filmed by C. Spencer Yeh. Roesing and Spencer hit a couple bars and art parties on a winter’s night in Cincinnati Ohio. Cameos by: Roesing Ape, Holly Price, Scott Hisey, Tim Schwallie, Monkey the cat, Bob the cat, Andrew Hissett, …Continue reading →
2001 Beltane Brahkage-Available on: iTunes Spotify Amazon Napster Deezer Audio recording of a performance piece at the Southgate House in Newport Kentucky, celebrating the Beltane fires by simulating sex with a six foot blow-up penis and a lampshade in front of …Continue reading →
2001 Beltane Brakhage-Wherein Roesing Ape and Burning Star Core (C. Spencer Yeh) perform noise in front of a video montage of computer generated fire and Stan Brakhage’s film of his wife giving birth and Lauren Brown’s improvisational dance leads to a simulated …Continue reading →
2001 Buttons, Smoke & Fire-Performance piece at Sudsy Malone’s laundromat and bar in Cincinnati Ohio for George Washington’s birthday. Cover charge was one dollar per person, which was collected in a bowl and burnt in a funereal pyre at the end the chant at …Continue reading →
2001 Death Beam Practice 2-The Cincinnati noise super-group Death Beam: Roesing Ape, C. Spencer Yeh, and Ron Orovitz. There’s an audio sync issue but f*%k it, it’s Death Beam.
2001 FreeDance Music-Holly Price performing with members of the Wolverton Bros. and Gordy Horn in an interactive self-projection dance piece. Shot, poorly, with a 35mm Minolta film camera. 2001 FreeDance Music
2001 Fucks Me Variations 3 and 4-Available on: iTunes Spotify Napster Deezer The first official Roesing Ape release. Out on Burning Star Core’s Dronedisco label, it was a six CD box set that retailed for $500. Single discs from the collection were $10, but which …Continue reading →
2001 Fucks Me Variations 5 and 6-Available on: iTunes Spotify Napster Deezer The first official Roesing Ape release. Out on Burning Star Core’s Dronedisco label, it was a six CD box set that retailed for $500. Single discs from the collection were $10, but which …Continue reading →
2001 Gordy | Roesing | Price-Available on: iTunes Spotify Amazon Napster Deezer Improvisation test with Tim Schwallie, Holly Price, and Roesing Ape. Its weird. Enjoy. Flash player not working? Try the Spotify…
2001 In The Shoe-The wreck of living in the David Shoe building in the West End of Cincinnati in the fall of 2001. Shot on a 35mm Minolta film camera and age stressed with a Nikon D5100. 2001 In The Shoe
2001 It’s Cute with Beef-It’s cute with beef Let’s come together and be one In saying something stupid Let’s let our hugs outweigh our words The warmth and fuzziness, a protective fur The freedom that agreement lets you feel Feels itself to be real, …Continue reading →
2001 Kentucky Live-Available on: iTunes Spotify Amazon Deezer Early live noise sets at the Southgate House in Newport Kentucky and the Masonic Lodge in Covington Kentucky. Enjoy? Flash player not working? Try the Spotify…
2001 Live at The Comet-Live noise set to Fellini’s Roma played in reverse at the infamous ‘The Comet’ in Cincinnati Ohio. During that neat few months when C. Spencer Yeh (of Burning Star Core) and Lesniak (of Culture Queer) were part of Roesing Ape.
2001 Live on WAIF 88.3-A few minutes of random footage during a roesing ape DJ session for the Art Damage show on WAIF 88.3 in Cincinnati Ohio. Cameo/PSA by Holly Price.
2001 Masonic Lodge Art Show-Live noise at an art opening at the infamous Masonic Lodge in Covington Kentucky by Roesing Ape and Burning Star Core. A fascinating glimpse into the alternative culture of Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky at the turn of the century. You can watch …Continue reading →
2001 Masonic Lodge Art Show (Yes)-Available on: iTunes Spotify Amazon Napster Deezer Live noise set for an art show at the iconic Masonic Lodge in Covington Kentucky. Featuring Lesniak and C. Spencer Yeh when I was cool enough to have them in my band. …Continue reading →
2001 Mob & Numb (opening scene)-Weird keyboard music plays. There are sounds of men yelling and things crashing. Lights come up on two curtains pushed inward meeting at a 120 degree angle center stage, where there is a toilet. On both sides at eye level …Continue reading →
2001 Mob of Numb Excerpt-Mob of Numb Mob was an Employee of Numb Inc. for fifteen years. Numb Inc. was a Dopamine bar down on West Eighth and Spine. Spine went straight to Uptown Needless Dives on Tuesdays, Saturdays and Mondays at nine …Continue reading →
2001 Motion-Motion My motion is strange my money is on the matter my matter is the key the situation is flattered my motion is me my motion is named my master is keen I follow the latter the latter is mean …Continue reading →
2001 Norton’s Anthology-The Norton anthology of American literature states, and I quote, fuck you, go to hell. What’s the matter with you? I will be your shadow and that is the sentimental and romantic truth isn’t it. That is the point wherein …Continue reading →
2001 Nothing Happened-I wake up to the general humming and the world crashes into me as I fall up to it, I am a floater in the philosopher’s drink. I am a drinking fountain next to the pool. I am a chair …Continue reading →
2001 Point Beside It-And then there was this point beside it; And beside the point lying on the ground was this huge thing.. power itself to behold, orange, and the size of a grapefruit. As a matter of fact, it was a grapefruit. …Continue reading →
2001 Riddle & Shoe-Available on: Spotify iTunes Amazon Just in time for Halloween, the best haunted house soundtrack album you’ll hear all year. Decent ambient electronica recorded in home studios on Riddle Road and in the David Shoe building in Cincinnati. Guest …Continue reading →
2001 Roesing Lesniak Ebaugh Yeh-Available on: iTunes Spotify Amazon Napster Deezer Live jam at the Masonic Lodge in Covington Kentucky with Roesing Ape, Jeremy Lesniak, Jesse Ebaugh, and Spencer Yeh. Video here. Enjoy. Flash player not working? Try the Spotify…
2001 Roesing/Lesniak/Yeh/Ebaugh/Brown Masonic Jam-A jam of geniuses echoing through the halls of the Masonic Lodge in Covington Kentucky. Featuring Roesing Ape, C. Spencer Yeh, Lesniak, and Jesse Ebaugh who’s smile at the end is worth watching the whole thing for. Improvisational dance by …Continue reading →
2001 Sanctum to Drones-Available on: iTunes Spotify Amazon Napster Deezer Studio recorded noise sets for anti-social performance pieces at warehouse parties. Featuring Burning Star Core on violin. Enjoy. Flash player not working? Try the Spotify…
2001 Short Not Stories: 1996-2001-Theatrical, thoughtful, and mind bending short stories and essays. Primarily useful for being found 100 years from now and turned into a smash hit on a virtual reality holographic cable channel. Available in digital format and paperback.
2001 The Electric Company Show-Show at a short lived ultra hip venue on Vine Street in Cincinnati Ohio. Involved Chalk, Roesing Ape, S. Durm, Lauren Brown, Julie Roessler and many others. I remember the guy who ran the venue always wore sunglasses in the …Continue reading →
2001 The Sky Giving Birth to the Moon-Live performance and video montage piece performed at SSNOVA-Mockbee in Cincinnati Ohio. Music, words, and video by Roesing Ape. Choreography and movement by Mickey Morgan. Set by Julie Roessler. Video support by Spencer Yeh.
2001 Thighs-Art for fuck’s sake sanctioned as purity. Well what if everything fell apart. Would. There. Be. Tacos. Knock. Nigh. Needle high, and high needles. Needless. Ned and his. Needless needles. Neither. Nigh. Knock. No. Membrane sandwich. Remembering which land we …Continue reading →
2001 Zog & Roe Art Damage Birthday Show-Available on: Apple Music Spotify Tidal Amazon Deezer iHeart Radio Live on WAIF FM Cincinnati in October of 2001, the Art Damage show, featuring all Zog and Roe projects and mashups. The highlight is ‘Atton’ where Zog does a …Continue reading →
2002 Mickey Morgan’s Blue Bottle Rehearsal-Rehearsal for Mickey Morgan’s Blue Bottle at the Contemporary Dance Theatre of Cincinnati. Later presented by the Contemporary Dance Theatre of Cincinnati at the Aronoff Center for the Arts. Choreography, voice and writing by Mickey Morgan, video by C. Spencer …Continue reading →
2002 99-99% of art is a useless lie, a sick leftover side effect of the 17th century notion of the artist as something more than an artisan, as more than a worker, as more than a blue collar fuck, brought about …Continue reading →
2002 American Synth God-Available on: Spotify iTunes The Synth Album. The year of Synth. Recorded while listening to live BBC reports of the second Iraq War. Flash player not working? Try the Spotify…
2002 Belgian Graves Paris Fog-Bad shots of the graves of United States soldiers fallen in world wars buried overseas, and foggy Paris. Shot on a Minolta 35mm film camera and age stressed with a Nikon D5100. 2002 Belgian Graves Paris Fog
2002 Cincinnati Resist-Shots from one of the social justice rallies in Cincinnati circa 2002 after the police murder of Timothy Thomas. Shot on a Minolta 35mm film camera and age stressed with a Nikon D5100. 2002 Cincinnati Resist
2002 Civilization-Civilization is the grime on my teeth. In civilization desires are like grains of sand. Lying about on the floor over there is the want of a new couch. Behind that book hides the wish for a better nose. Floating …Continue reading →
2002 Death Beam-Available on: Spotify Amazon Napster Deezer iHeart The Cincinnati noise super-group Death Beam: Roesing Ape, C. Spencer Yeh, and Ron Orovitz.. Enjoy. Flash player not working? Try the Spotify…
2002 Death Beam Live in the Southgate House Ballroom-The Cincinnati noise super-group Death Beam: Roesing Ape, C. Spencer Yeh, Ron Orovitz, and Jeremy Lesniak. Live in the Historic Southgate House Ballroom in Newport Kentucky. Most metal live performance video ever.
2002 Death Beam Live in the Southgate House Parlor-The Cincinnati noise super-group Death Beam: Roesing Ape, C. Spencer Yeh, Ron Orovitz and Jeremy Lesniak. Live in the Historic Southgate House Parlor in Newport Kentucky. The audio slowly goes out of sync, but I didn’t care and you won’t …Continue reading →
2002 Death Beam Mini Tour Pics-A few snaps of the Original Cincinnati noise super-group Death Beam; Roesing Ape, C. Spencer Yeh, and Ron Orovitz, while they were on a mini-tour in the upper Midwest.
2002 Death Beam Mini-Tour pt. 1-The Cincinnati noise super-group Death Beam: Roesing Ape, C. Spencer Yeh, Ron Orovitz and Jeremy Lesniak. Live at the Empty Bottle in Chicago.
2002 Death Beam Mini-Tour pt. 2-The Cincinnati noise super-group Death Beam: Roesing Ape, C. Spencer Yeh, Ron Orovitz and Jeremy Lesniak. Live at the Comet in Cincinnati.
2002 Death Beam Mini-Tour pt. 3-The Cincinnati noise super-group Death Beam: Roesing Ape, C. Spencer Yeh and Ron Orovitz. Live somewhere near Louisville Kentucky. It’s the best Death Beam show, if you watch all of it you won’t be disappointed.
2002 Death Beam Mini-Tour pt. 4-The Cincinnati noise super-group Death Beam: Roesing Ape, C. Spencer Yeh and Ron Orovitz. Live somewhere in Michigan?
2002 Death Beam Mini-Tour pt. 5-The Cincinnati noise super-group Death Beam: Roesing Ape, C. Spencer Yeh and Ron Orovitz. Live in Ann Arbor Michigan 2002. More info at roesingape.org.
2002 Death Beam Practice-The Cincinnati noise super-group Death Beam: Roesing Ape, C. Spencer Yeh, and Ron Orovitz. Practicing at Ron’s house, where he set up a live analog video distortion thing, which is what you see. It gets pretty gnarly I don’t recommend …Continue reading →
2002 Death Beam Practice 3-The Cincinnati noise super-group Death Beam: Roesing Ape, C. Spencer Yeh, and Ron Orovitz.
2002 Death Beam Southgate-Available on: Spotify Amazon Napster Deezer iHeart The Cincinnati noise super-group Death Beam: Roesing Ape, C. Spencer Yeh, and Ron Orovitz, live at the historic Southgate House in Newport Kentucky. Enjoy. Flash player not working? Try the Spotify…
2002 F. Art-Originally titled Fuck Art, the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center wouldn’t allow that in their marketing. Rambling performance art piece comprised of academic and historic arguments against art as a thing of value. So an anti-art art piece performed at a …Continue reading →
2002 F. Art EP-Available on: iTunes Spotify Amazon Deezer Audio release of a Roesing Ape show presented at the Contemporary Arts Center of Cincinnati. Featuring Lacey Montgomery, C. Spencer Yeh, John Rich, Sarah Mandrake, Lesniak, Julie Roessler, and Ron Orovitz. Here’s the …Continue reading →
2002 Floating Listlessly on the Fat of the Land-The journal of a Citizen of American Empire just after the turn of the 21st century devolving into the prose of madness, disillusionment, hallucinogenic and sexual escapades of poetry, alcohol, drugs, and beauty as he grapples with the absurdity of …Continue reading →
2002 Gordy Horn Southgate Halloween-Live in the ballroom at the Southgate House in Newport Kentucky. Special line-up: Tim Schwallie, Scott Hisey, Mark Perry, Clayton Gunnels, Adam Shelton.
2002 Halloween Interludes-Available on: Apple Music Spotify Tidal Amazon Deezer iHeart Radio Noise interludes for between sets at a Halloween noise show at the Southgate House in Newport Kentucky, 2002. Enjoy. Try the Spotify…
2002 Holly Price Art-Catalogue shots for an art show by Holly Price, and some random stuff. Shot on a Minolta 35mm and age-stressed with a Nikon D5100. 2002 Holly Price Art
2002 Live at Sudsy Malone’s-Live noise set at the infamous Sudsy Malone’s Bar & Laundromat in Cincinnati Ohio. During that neat few months when C. Spencer Yeh (of Burning Star Core) and Lesniak (of Culture Queer) were part of Roesing Ape.
2002 Live at Sudsy Malone’s EP-Available on: iTunes Spotify Amazon Napster Deezer Live noise set at the iconic Sudsy Malone’s on Short Vine in Cincinnati Ohio. Featuring Lesniak and C. Spencer Yeh when I was cool enough to have them in my band. Enjoy. …Continue reading →
2002 Lost Parlour Set-Snapshot of a live noise set in the Southgate House upper parlour. First time integrating banjo into noise. Enjoy.
2002 Ludique-Available on: Amazon iTunes Spotify Mixture of live studio, weird multitracking, and call and response voice tracks. Flash player not working? Try the Spotify…
2002 Mickey Morgan’s Blue Bottle-Presented by the Contemporary Dance Theatre of Cincinnati at the Aronoff Center for the Arts. Choreography, voice and writing by Mickey Morgan, video by C. Spencer Yeh, music by Roesing Ape.
2002 Miscmidsum-Available on: iTunes Spotify Amazon Napster Deezer Early noise. No rules, no beats, no recording standards. Enjoy? Flash player not working? Try the Spotify…
2002 More Poop-There once was a poop. And in this poop everything stood still, as if concrete blooded itself, or rather blood concreted itself. The aqua-ducts flooded with concrete poop to still the very soul of nothing reading bridges of the solid …Continue reading →
2002 No Comet No The Bronze-Available on: Spotify iTunes Amazon Experiments in noise multitracking, live field recording (i.e. an effected dialogue with a Verizon customer service representative) and computer generated beat bashes. Some of it is cool. Flash player not working? Try the Spotify…
2002 Performance & Time Arts-Available on: iTunes Spotify Amazon Napster Deezer Audio release of a Roesing Ape show presented as part of the Contemporary Dance Theatre of Cincinnati’s Performance & Time Arts series at the College Hill Town Hall. Featuring Sarah Mandrake, Keith …Continue reading →
2002 Reminder Art-Remind me of what I want to be. No more illustrative descriptions of what is wrong. I want to be a cricket forever. Remembering that brain chill in those quick moments when you realize death and that you end. …Continue reading →
2002 Resume-I want to be an Actor. I want to be a producer. I want to be a writer. I want to be a costume designer. I want to be a director. I want to be a dancer. I want to …Continue reading →
2002 Roesing-Yeh (Live at Sudsy’s)-Available on: iTunes Spotify Amazon Napster Deezer Live harsh noise by Roesing Ape and C. Spencer Yeh at Sudsy Malone’s on Short Vine in Cincinnati. You’re going to wonder the whole time if that distortion sound was live, or …Continue reading →
2002 Sexualized Boredom-I had my fingers in a girl’s cunt for three minutes today, but other than that all day I was convoluted, distracted, and dreamy. God is in the quick of my nails I keeping biting to get to. I fart …Continue reading →
2002 Southgate House Live 02-Available on: iTunes Spotify Amazon Deezer Live noise at the Southgate House in Newport Kentucky, again. Enjoy? Flash player not working? Try the Spotify…
2002 Stereo Oriented-Available on: iTunes Spotify Synth and computer improv. Intense stoner heavy. Flash player not working? Try the Spotify…
2002 The Leper & the Dragon Excerpt-Leper: This sick fucking expression, the worship of expression. We eat ourselves whole in cleverness for subtlety stretching our emotional scars over conversational bones handed to us by our parents, our dinner plates, our rat-a-tat-tat channel flipping nightmares converted by …Continue reading →
2002 The Painful Miscellany-Available on: Spotify iTunes Amazon The worst Roesing Ape album. For the die-hard. Experiments in harsh computer generated and badly recorded noise, and some pieces I did for some performance art of other people with the goal to make …Continue reading →
2002 The Rape of the Sabine Men-Fair warning, the end can be shocking. It’s a dance/multimedia/performance piece that investigates parallels between the use of feminine sexuality in advertising and rape. Performed at the Contemporary Dance Theatre of Cincinnati ‘s College Hill Town Hall. With Tara Guilfoil, …Continue reading →
2002 Wisdom-Wisdom There is milk in my shoe. The trashcan has not yet moved. A chair with two legs is really a broken ladder. A computer is empty when the power is out. Three monkeys and the Jones boy have pondered …Continue reading →
2002 You Will Repeat Yourself-A Persian/Arabic inspired call-and-response prayer to the gods of American commerce. Performed at the Cincinnati Contemporary Dance Theatre’s College Hill Town Hall as part of the Performance and Time Arts Series. With F. Keith Wahle and Roesing Ape. Some audio …Continue reading →
2003 ‘A Beautiful Woman’ excerpt: Last Dreams-Last Dreams; And what was underneath the beautiful women and the empty worthlessness which vomited itself up to meet her from the heart of the Job who lies dying; a fundamental distrust of life, a fundamental fear of living, a …Continue reading →
2003 A Beautiful Woman (Second Edition)-Novelist Roesing Ape’s first book for Chapultepec Press reveals Kentucky’s most-beloved son, Job, consecrating 400 acres of pine cones and leaves with all that he has. A Beautiful Woman is a true Odysseus tale of one man’s visceral struggle to …Continue reading →
2003 A Beautiful Woman Excerpt – Ancestry/Forest Microwave-I am descended of slave owners and racists. I was born and raised in the sacred hunting grounds of Can-Tuc-Kee, washed clean with the blood of pregnant squaws and forsaken braves, all guilt made to dust with centuries. Legend has …Continue reading →
2003 A Beautiful Woman Excerpt – Bit o’ Bliss-And Job dreamt of bliss, and it was purple and green and blue and fuzzy like a fucking care-bear. And it was always setting, and yet never ending. Achieving always, it was. And the bliss was cream-colored fear, rather than …Continue reading →
2003 A Beautiful Woman Excerpt – Can I?-All was mist and water lapping, and Job dreamt, for what else was there to do? And so Job dreamt of the absence of the beautiful women, and these words rang in his dreaming and dream-lobed ears; Can I vomit …Continue reading →
2003 A Beautiful Woman Excerpt – Corporate Dick-Men spoke to him. About other men. They cursed a lot and all that he could see was their mouths moving. Thin masculine lips each trying to improve upon the size of its naturally allocated cock. Tales of adventure and …Continue reading →
2003 A Beautiful Woman Excerpt – Cup & Slipper-As he drifted off he heard the rain pattering on the roof like baby food. All that money wasted on birth control pills. He dreamt of cold steel rubbing him, and chanting Ohm chakras and executing aerobatic flips and wiggles. …Continue reading →
2003 A Beautiful Woman Excerpt – Dying Sucks-Job was dying, slowly but surely. Job didn’t have any ears. In the place of one ear there was a nicely carved sliver of cartilage sloping up towards the back of his head. There was still some blood caked there, …Continue reading →
2003 A Beautiful Woman Excerpt – Forgot Remember-This would be a dream he wouldn’t remember. He dreamt of yellow teeth, faded that way like the ceiling of a good centenarian bar in the late twentieth century. Yellow like golden sun. Yellow like wildflower stains on a little …Continue reading →
2003 A Beautiful Woman Excerpt – Going Forward-Going Forward; The weight of the foot, pulled gently up by the contraction of thousands upon thousands of minuscule microscopic little round cells of muscle, angled delicately by the concoction of curves and bone and cartilage spherically rotating in mystical …Continue reading →
2003 A Beautiful Woman Excerpt – Hot Chocklet-This time it came in through his nostrils like a burglar through an unlatched window in the dead of night, this hot chocolate demon. On horses of sugar through long tinseled licorice grass it strode and became a ‘they’ of …Continue reading →
2003 A Beautiful Woman Excerpt – Intro-3; Job is walking along the brook on a sunny and feathery brisk fall day. Late afternoon, middle class fucks would pay for the sound the brook makes free for the dirt to hear, chirping along its rocky, green, and …Continue reading →
2003 A Beautiful Woman Excerpt – More Harm Than Good-Oh shit, he had done more harm than good. He was running through a field of ping pong tables cluttered with suburban virginity and noses with little moles on them beckoning cutely at the centers of his eyes. Giggles and …Continue reading →
2003 A Beautiful Woman Excerpt – Pinky Symmetry-He awoke in a dark mixture of pressures, textures and temperatures and light which his mind went on to describe as a cold puddle of water on a clear starry night in a forest. Right quick he felt a pain …Continue reading →
2003 A Beautiful Woman Excerpt – Pounding-I was walking down the street when the pounding started, out of a glistening new car door, with animal shapes and shadows, sizes. It wouldn’t have to poke through, for that was the end of it right there, a brand …Continue reading →
2003 A Beautiful Woman Excerpt – Sky Says-His jaw jutted before him, was his leader and master and hope. He walked among fields of school desk legs sprouting fresh and green out of the rolling grassy hills, he looked for and weeded from among them thin strips …Continue reading →
2003 A Beautiful Woman Excerpt – This Time a Train-This time he was on a train; he had never actually been on a train, so it was completely imaginary. Everybody had their own booth and played video games, but the booths were picture-taking booths, so they would take quarters …Continue reading →
2003 A Beautiful Woman Excerpt – Tongue Scab Dream-And then Job really fell asleep again. He was directing a movie. Or what appeared to be a movie and no one could understand him because he had replaced his missing tongue with a flat wooden stick. The stick tasted …Continue reading →
2003 A Beautiful Woman Excerpt – Against a Tree-All this felt like a bad reputation, this walking back to the stream. It felt like an irreversible fault, a bad dream, a bum deal, a real lemon of suck. It felt like he had no friends as the brook …Continue reading →
2003 A Beautiful Woman Excerpt – Dog’s Leg Night-You see I need to find a way through the cold dark night. You see coffee might not do it, and plus I don’t have any coffee. Pot would make me sleepy. The skin that slides greasily over the knuckles …Continue reading →
2003 A Beautiful Woman Excerpt – Ear Kong Dandruff-He approached softly the fridge’s barbed wire marking line in the next morning’s early light. He touched softly the barbed wire, finding its tightness and its slack. He touched softly a broken-off string of it, tugging motherly it up from …Continue reading →
2003 A Beautiful Woman Excerpt – Emasculation-Job had meant to cut off his penis. He had actually been looking forward to this event for quite some time, and it had required the greatest of efforts to keep from doing it much sooner. He had read in …Continue reading →
2003 A Beautiful Woman Excerpt – Slut and Caramel-That night Job dreamed of rivers of blood tinkling slowly from all parts of his body as if he was the center sea of a red watered domain. His soul the firmament, his body the matter of which all was …Continue reading →
2003 A Beautiful Woman Excerpt – Spinning-Job was floating in the early dawn of the last day of his life. He had been wakened by a snag of drifting dead root which had pinned him to the bank. It had taken fifteen minutes and some of …Continue reading →
2003 A Beautiful Woman Excerpt – Sycophant Moon-The moon is now our sycophant, and the earth our omnipotent sleeping grave. Our shoes the thrones of our feet, our fingers the dreadlocks of our slit wrists. The ashtray our baptismal basin, the smog of cars our aphrodisiac musk. …Continue reading →
2003 A Beautiful Woman Excerpt – The Life of Some Men-Job dreamed of open asshole flaring vagina porn. And he dreamed of it very well. They were all pages but they were living, breathing pages. Sticky crackles of a dim light reflected off their magazine flesh, but they breathed and …Continue reading →
2003 Alteractive – Sarah Mann with Roessler & Soluski-Performance at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park’s Alteractive series, 2003. Created by Sarah Mann, with performance assist by Julie Roessler and Nikol Soluski. They prepared and served drinks to noise.
2003 An Old Man-I’m already an old man or I once was an old man and I’ve just recently remembered. As it is my memory grows more with each passing day about being old and bald and fat and tired and my back …Continue reading →
2003 Anthropology Class-I skip. Into Anthropology class. I haven’t been here in three weeks. I got a D on the test. I’m not fairing too well. S’okay though, everyone in here has green fluorescent ooze dribbling out of their foreheads. Night class …Continue reading →
2003 Cincinnati Hip-Hipstery arty stuff and people in Cincinnati around 2003. Shot on a Minolta 35mm film camera, aged stressed with a Nikon D5100. 2003 Cincinnati Hip
2003 Computer Music-Available on: Spotify iTunes Amazon Experiments in computer generated anti-edm. Enjoy. Flash player not working? Try the Spotify…
2003 Death Beam 1103-Available on: Spotify Amazon Napster Deezer iHeart The Cincinnati noise super-group Death Beam: Roesing Ape, C. Spencer Yeh, and Ron Orovitz. No one remembers where this was recorded. The music blanks the mind. Enjoy. Flash player not working? Try …Continue reading →
2003 Death Beam Prax-Available on: Spotify iTunes Wimp-Tidal Napster Deezer The Cincinnati noise super-group Death Beam: Roesing Ape, C. Spencer Yeh, Ron Orovitz, and sometimes Jeremy Lesniak, in a particularly gnarly practice session. Enjoy. Try the Spotify…
2003 Death Beam What is it Like to be a Bat?-Available on: Spotify iTunes Wimp-Tidal Napster Deezer The Cincinnati noise super-group Death Beam: Roesing Ape, C. Spencer Yeh, Ron Orovitz, and sometimes Jeremy Lesniak, live and in studio. Enjoy. Try the Spotify…
2003 Death Beam WXXX News Time Warp-Available on: Spotify iTunes Wimp-Tidal Napster Deezer The Cincinnati noise super-group Death Beam: Roesing Ape, C. Spencer Yeh, Ron Orovitz, and sometimes Jeremy Lesniak; live sets in front of real live audiences and in a real underground studio. Enjoy. …Continue reading →
2003 Diaboli Ex Machina Excerpt-Diaboli Ex Machina Act 1 Scene 1 [In this play, every character should be of a different ethnicity. Maybe even with thick accents. Scene opens on a jagged wall running the length of the stage (upstage) in front of which …Continue reading →
2003 Eat My Shit-Eat my shit. Fuck you. Suck my cock. Take a flying fuck at a brick wall. Fuck you. You piece of shit fucking cunt son of a bitch. Fucking die you cock sucking mother fucker shit wad dip fuck nut …Continue reading →
2003 FArt-Available on: iTunes Spotify Napster Deezer Words with noise, artsy-like. Enjoy. Flash player not working? Try the Spotify…
2003 Hurtful Stories-Available on: iTunes Spotify Amazon Napster Deezer Attempts at annoyingly uncomfortable noise-story telling. Enjoy? Backing track vocalizations by Nik Soluski. Yeah the flash player doesn’t work… Try the Spotify…
2003 Infinity Balls-Balls: Infinity in every direction: if infinity, then all things that happen or are, happen and repeat an infinite number of times. Else; Infinite variety is the rule. Basic laws and repeated patterns in form on any level of the …Continue reading →
2003 International Noise Conference-Held at Churchill’s Pub in Miami Florida. Shot on a Minolta 35mm film camera, aged stressed with a Nikon D5100. 2003 International Noise Conference
2003 Karst-Photos from the environs of Karst-o-rama in southern Kentucky circa 2003. Shot on a Minolta 35mm film camera and age stressed with a Nikon D5100. 2003 Karst
2003 Limitation-My pointlessness used to be a pleasing part of me. I reveled in the aimless idiocy of all things created. The blind throbbing mass of all squirting its ecclesiastical orgasmic fluid like flame into the all of the universe. Age …Continue reading →
2003 Music for Ms. Morgan-Available on: iTunes Spotify Amazon Tracks created for performances pieces with dancer/choreographer/poet Mickey Morgan. Two of the tracks were performed in front of a live audience, and one of those got the biggest boo on the biggest stage of …Continue reading →
2003 No Really, I’m Not a Robot-No really, I’m not a robot Automation: There forms a natural hierarchy of all possible mates designated by personal and physical qualities and oddities, a flip of the hair, the un-conscience drop of ‘dude’ and ‘like’ and it becomes not …Continue reading →
2003 Piling Water at CAC-Choreography by Holly Price and Rebecca Bedel. Music by Matt Anderson. Special appearance and video by Roesing Ape. Performed at the grand opening preview party of the Contemporary Arts Center of Cincinnati’s new Zaha Hadid building. Mixed early and late …Continue reading →
2003 Piling Water Practice-Choreography by Holly Price and Rebecca Bedel. Music by Matt Anderson. Special appearance and video by Roesing Ape. Practice for the grand opening preview party of the Contemporary Arts Center of Cincinnati’s new Zaha Hadid building. Mixed early and late …Continue reading →
2003 Rando-Available on: iTunes Spotify Some random improvisational noise, live and multitracked. Enjoy! Flash player not working? Try the Spotify…
2003 Repeat Myself Excerpt-Repeat Myself Modeled after Arabic and Persian call and response prayers. Each line should begin just before the previous one has ended – no space between call and response. First performed at the Cincinnati Contemporary Dance Theatre in 2003 with …Continue reading →
2003 REPEAT REPEAT-Plays, one acts, plot elevations, and monologues, some performed live, some not, detailing an anti-traditional study of drama at the turn of the 21st century. Available in digital format and paperback.
2003 Short Plot Elevation Excerpt-Short Plot Elevation Observer enters stage through audience, looking around, hesitantly opens Box (box as character). Subconscious escapes, runs around frantically feeling everything including Observer. Attaches instinctively to Observer. Protective and giddy. Short one-sided conversation. Unfulfilled, Observer opens Box again. …Continue reading →
2003 Sitwell’s Ashtray Rent Pain-It was a black table about four foot high, beside itself in the joy of holding the ashtray. There wasn’t much around it, it might’ve had pockets, one can’t tell with imbalanced contact lenses. Those screwy doctors. Never can hold …Continue reading →
2003 The Enemy of All Good Times (Remastered)-Available on: Spotify iTunes An attempt at ‘studio’ recording noise and spoken word tracks, originally released by DroneDisco. It’s pretty sometimes. Recorded in a 150 year old building in the Betts-Longworth district of Cincinnati Ohio while the projects were …Continue reading →
2003 To Me-Available on: iTunes Spotify Well recorded HQ noise and experimentation during a brief moment in time when everything was going ‘well’. Includes live studio sets, a live set at the Southgate House in Kentucky, and crafted mutltitrack noise. A …Continue reading →
2003 Warm, Comfortable and Dry-I listen to the intermixtured music of turn of the century descendents of African slaves and the indigenous peoples of South America with an intermixture of envy and ancestral discomfort as I tongue the remnants of cheese crackers saturated with …Continue reading →
2003 What the Hell is There to Write About Anyways-What the hell is there to write about anyways? Suit w/blood, axe w/carcass. One laughing all through. One One One Here This Goes File Our Wrath With The Peace Of Race To Be This Won’t Work This Isn’t Free This …Continue reading →
2003 ‘A Beautiful Woman’ excerpt: Sewers & Descent-As he splashed along the visually diminishing line of water and rock, walking unheeding now through abandoned webs what little there were of them, occasionally he would reach up and grab a leaf, dying, just damp enough with a dunk …Continue reading →
2004 “A Beautiful Woman” by Roesing Ape Book Release-Featuring Nik Soluski, Gabriel Molnar (The Black Fives), George Laub (8Fold), Julie Roessler (Three Red Squares and an Orange), Dana Hamblen, Jeremy Lesniak, Joshua Treble, David Garza and more… Held in an old winery on a hill with a creek …Continue reading →
2004 “Eat Herself” Roesing/Soluski-Performance for a book release at the Mockbee Art Gallery, Cincinnati Ohio 2004. Audio and spoken word by Roesing Ape, Jumping around and screaming, costumes, food sculpture and set design by Nik Soluski and Julie Roessler.
2004 3redSquares&anOrange-Culinary Performance by Julie Roessler – Three Red Squares and an Orange – with live noise at the Mockbee/SS Nova in Cincinnati Ohio’s Brighton District for the release party of the novel, A Beautiful Woman, by Roesing Ape.
2004 8Fold Live at the Mockbee-George Laub aka 8 Fold at the roesing ape ‘A Beautiful Woman’ book release show in the historic and dank Mockbee building.
2004 Apegremlin-I was too sick to go on a Death Beam tour in 2004. So I made a weird video of myself playing drums they could project while they played. Don’t think they used it. It’s pretty weird. It zones though.
2004 Art Damage Roesing Ape Birthday Tribute-Available on: Apple/iTunes Spotify WIMP/Tidal Amazon Napster Deezer Broadcast Live on WAIF FM Cincinnati Ohio. Enjoy. Try the Spotify…
2004 Book Noise-A short noise set at the 2004 release of the novel ‘A Beautiful Woman’ at SSNova/The Mockbee in Cincinnati Ohio’s Brighton District. Also my video capture settings were messed up so the audio is totally redlining.
2004 Book Noise-Available on: iTunes Spotify Amazon Napster Epic noise sets, or boring ones, for the book release party of “A Beautiful Woman” at the SSNova/Mockbee in Cincinnati Ohio. There’s video here. Enjoy? Flash player not working? Try the Spotify…
2004 Book Release Egg Pow-From 2004 book release of ‘A Beautiful Woman’, I exploded an egg in a microwave on stage set to music… because it sounded like fun.
2004 BxC All-Available on: Spotify iTunes A collection of live and studio noise at the time for promo purposes when I was going through DroneDisco. A good cross section of what I was up to. I toured Germany with it but …Continue reading →
2004 Cincinnati Fringe Festival-Mixture of sculpture, body and car paint art by Nikol Soluski, Megan Guzzardo and Julie Roessler and my installation of projections of 1980’s cereal commercials and distorted porn in a room plastered floor to ceiling in tin foil. All part …Continue reading →
2004 Cincinnati Laptop Orchestra-Available on: Spotify Amazon Electronic improvisational laptop orchestra. Players: Roesing Ape, Gabriel Molnar, Jim Reynolds, Jeremy Lesniak, George Laub, Tony Boggs, C. Spencer Yeh. It’s a hot mess. Cover art by Allen Michael “Witt” Schmitz. Flash player not working? …Continue reading →
2004 Dana Colors Eggs-For the 2004 book release party of roesing Ape’s ‘A Beautiful Woman’, Dana Hamblen did a colored egg presentation.
2004 David Garza’s Bus Stop by David Garza-Performed live at the Southgate House Ballroom in Newport Kentucky on June 6 of 2004, as part of a Culture Queer CD release event. It was much longer in real life.
2004 Eating Ankle (bluporn)-DVD menu screen produced for a past release mixing b-roll from various installation pieces and a track from a concurrent album.
2004 Fake Art Noise-Available on: Amazon iTunes Spotify Fake Art Noise for various performance pieces 2002-2004 in Cincinnati Ohio. “At first I thought my computer speakers were broken…” – Melissa Terry, Facebook Post Flash player not working? Try the Spotify…
2004 Fake Art Noise Full Album-“At first I thought my computer speakers were broken…” – Melissa Terry, Facebook Post. Fake Art Noise for various performance pieces 2002-2004 in Cincinnati Ohio. Youtube
2004 Food Prep Noise Jam-Julie Noelle Roessler prepares a salad during a noise jam in celebration of a Roesing Ape book release. About four minutes in the most annoying sound I’ve ever heard happens, I think because Zog’s oscillators were too close to the …Continue reading →
2004 Food Prep Noise Jam Part 2-Julie Noelle Roessler prepares a salad during a noise jam in celebration of a Roesing Ape book release. Continued.
2004 Garza Donut Gremlin-If you’ve never seen a grown man in a Gizmo mask holding a sword make powdered donuts from scratch in an old brewery, now’s your chance. Took place at SSNova/Mockbee in Cincinnati, for roesing Ape’s ‘A Beautiful Woman’ book release. …Continue reading →
2004 Hands-Experimental hand dancing of Mickey Morgan set to keyboard and synth nonsense. Part of a larger piece that also involved feet.
2004 Lights-Just some photos of lights. Shot on a 35mm Minolta film camera, age stressed with a Nikon D5100. 2004 Lights
2004 Lost Parlour Set-Available on: Apple Music Spotify Tidal Amazon Napster Deezer iHeart Radio Snapshot of a live noise set in the Southgate House upper parlour. First time integrating banjo into noise. Enjoy. Try the Spotify…
2004 Nalbum-Available on: Spotify iTunes Amazon Experiments in noise multi-tracking, much of which was used for various stage pieces. Some of it is cool or funny, like the song that repeats a Windows XP serial number. Also some spoken word …Continue reading →
2004 Parks & Crap Like That-Cincinnati Ohio and Covington Kentucky. Shot on a Minolta 35mm film camera and age stressed with a Nikon D5100. 2004 Parks & Crap Like That
2004 Pittsburgh Single-Available on: iTunes Spotify Amazon Napster Deezer Live noise sets packaged for an underground noise label in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania in 2004, “ The Year Noise Broke “. Enjoy. Flash player not working? Try the Spotify…
2004 Rat Bastard’s Noise Pile at Sudsy Malone’s-Featuring Rat Bastard, You Can Unlearn Guitar, Iovae, Roesing Ape, Black Fives, Burning Star Core, and more. Footage courtesy of Wy Tapes. Live at Sudsy Malone’s on Short Vine in Cincinnati Ohio.
2004 Republican Dreams/Cincinnati Fringe Festival-Installation piece for the 2004 Cincinnati Fringe Festival. I covered an entire room, floor to ceiling, with tin foil, and used three projectors to mix blurry porn and Saturday morning kid’s cereal commercials onto the silvery walls. The extra pics …Continue reading →
2004 Roesing Ape & Soluski Kitty-Available on: iTunes Spotify Amazon Deezer Live performance of a performance art piece at the Southgate House in Newport Kentucky. Featuring Roesing Ape, Gabriel Molnar, Megan Hill, and Nikol Soluski. It involved duct tape crucifixion and completely wrapping a …Continue reading →
2004 Roesing Ape & Soluski Kitty Part 1-Performance piece for the Culture Queer CD release at the Southgate House in Newport Kentucky. Part 1. Performed and created by Roesing Ape and Nikol Soluski.
2004 Roesing Ape & Soluski Kitty Part 2-Performance piece for the Culture Queer CD release at the Southgate House in Newport Kentucky. Part 2. Performed and created by Roesing Ape and Nikol Soluski.
2004 Roesing Soluski Roessler Sampler-Sample DVD track for the performance art collaboration of Roesing Ape, Nik Soluski, and Julie Roessler (3 Red Squares and an Orange).
2004 Southern France-Nice, Villefranche Sur-Mer, and the Alps. Shot on a Minolta 35mm film camera and age stressed with a Nikon D5100. 2004 Southern France
2004 Tha Blast Honors Grand Master Flash-Introduction video for Grand Master Flash to receive an award from Tha Blast festival in Cincinnati. Not sure how my noise-art style of video went off with the hip-hop crowd, but fun was had by all. Many thanks to Robin …Continue reading →
2004 The Year Noise Broke-Available on: iTunes Spotify Amazon Napster Deezer Some straight up improvised electronic noise from the best year Noise ever had in southern Ohio, 2004. Enjoy. Yeah the flash player doesn’t work… Try the Spotify…
2004 Time Outside My Body Promo-Promo for Tara Michelle Guilfoil’s award winning piece at the 2003 Cincinnati Fringe Festival.
2004 Wahle – Guilfoil Telephone-A performance of F. Keith Wahle’s poetry at the Mockbee/SSNova in Cincinnati Ohio. During his phase where he always got naked while reading his poetry. Possibly for my book release. Evidence of pre-millennial sexting. Enjoy! Also there’s really bad audio …Continue reading →
2004 Year Wasted on Deviant Art-A collection of album covers, 35mm film photos and Myspace cover art that was forgotten on the Deviant Art site for twelve years. 2004 Year Wasted on Deviant Art
2005 30th Party-Photos of the 30th party. Shot on a Minolta 35mm, traditionally developed and scanned in. 2005 30th Party
2005 An Apt Description of the Origin-Can I vomit sorrow into my own face. Can I sodomize my self with loss so that my inner sex demon gland is tickled into an orgasm of self loathing. Can I be alone forever, and avoid all tearing but …Continue reading →
2005 Antaesop Rehearsal-Rehearsal photos from a performance piece at the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park for their alteractive series in 2005/6. Shot on 35mm film, age stressed with a Nikon D5100. 2005 Antaesop Rehearsal
2005 Antaesop’s Fables-Available on: iTunes Spotify Amazon Modern day fairy tales inspired by Aesop’s fables written and read by various Cincinnati area artists including Rachel Cook, Nikol Soluski and Roesing Ape. Performed live at the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park’s alteractive …Continue reading →
2005 Art Damage Event-At the original Art Damage venue on Hamilton Avenue in Northside, Cincinnati Ohio. Not sure who else is performing, but my show evidently included a power point presentation on why people are stupid and you should be too. Shot on …Continue reading →
2005 Art Damage Interview-Short clip from a documentary on the Cincinnati underground music scene. Please inform me of original creator and title and link to full film.
2005 Art Damage Lodge Live-Available on: Spotify Amazon Napster Deezer Live show at the original(?) Art Damage Lodge in Northside Cincinnati Ohio. I don’t remember the address it was across the street and down a ways from the 2nd iteration… Anyway on first …Continue reading →
2005 Art Sucks Interviews-Part of an Installation Art Class piece. I installed a booth in the halls of the art and design building (DAAP) of the University of Cincinnati, created a website, brochure and power point presentation along with a projection of this …Continue reading →
2005 Asks is the American Christ Satan-Available on: iTunes Spotify WIMP/Tidal Amazon Napster Deezer Best attempt at 2000s noise-pop. I never got an answer. Enjoy. Try the Spotify…
2005 Carcassonne et Toulouse-The old fort of Carcassonne outside of Toulouse, and a bit of Toulouse. Shot on a Minolta 35mm film camera and age stressed with a Nikon D5100. 2005 Carcassonne et Toulouse
2005 Cincinnati People-Photos of people in Cincinnati. Shot on a Minolta 35mm, traditionally developed and scanned in. 2005 Cincinnati People
2005 Eats-Available on: iTunes Spotify Napster Deezer Experimental multitracking and live noise in a warehouse from the mid aughts. Enjoy? Try the Spotify…
2005 Happy Holidays-Available on: iTunes Spotify A holiday album in July. Some robots sing on it. Try the Spotify…
2005 Homes-Artsy shots in Cincinnati hipster homes during the era of the second Bush. Shot on a Minolta 35mm film camera and age stressed with a Nikon D5100. 2005 Homes
2005 How Some Came Between Others-A weird story with a weird video for a performance piece at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park’s Alteractive series. Dancing by Sam Womelsdorf, Rachel Cook, Nikol Soluski and Roesing Ape.
2005 Ishtar-Vocals & script by Nik Soluski. Video & audio by Roesing Ape. Graphics by both. For Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park’s Alteractive series.
2005 jUStin!katKO Live at Media Bridges-jUStin!katKO performing live for an Art Damage Noise show at the public cable access channel in Cincinnati, Ohio; Media Bridges.
2005 Land of Zog-Noise and b-roll collage made under the influence of the style of KR Zog aka Ron Orovitz.
2005 Land of Zog- Available on: iTunes Spotify Amazon Napster Deezer Sheer noise inspired by whatever Zog was, Iovae, and the dark swampy underbelly of 2000’s Price Hill Cincinnati culture. Enjoy. Flash player not working? Try the Spotify…
2005 lightbornenewyears (Lightborn Bad Art Series)-Revolution themed computer cheese with gratuitous mad synth arpeggiation made for a new year’s eve party (05/06) at a Midwestern commercial video studio.
2005 Live at Art Damage-Live noise set at the original Art Damage venue on Hamilton in Northside, Cincinnati Ohio. Video shot by Orovitz.
2005 LOVID Live at Media Bridges-Lovid performing live for an Art Damage Noise show at the public cable access channel in Cincinnati, Media Bridges.
2005 Media-Available on: iTunes Spotify Amazon Various noise leftovers from projects and albums, and some spoken word remixed. Enjoy? Flash player not working? Try the Spotify…
2005 Music is Bullshit-Available on: Amazon iTunes Spotify A mixture of banjo pop, live noise and weird studio multitracking. Flash player not working? Try the Spotify… Original CD Cover
2005 O Tree-A weird story with a weird video for a performance piece at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park’s Alteractive series. Story and speech by Rachel Cook. Cheap Bryce 3D tree video by Roesing Ape.
2005 October 16-Halloween theme & street dance photos. Shot on a 35mm Minolta film camera. Moderately photoshopped in certain cases. 2005 October 16
2005 Performance & Time Arts Series-Contemporary Dance Theatre, Cincinnati Ohio. Shot on a Cannon 35mm DLSR. 2005 Performance & Time Arts Series
2005 R Dot Ape-Noise video montage reel developed for projection behind and mixing into live sets in the aughts. Good for playing in the background at acid/mushroom parties.
2005 Sagrada Familia et Environs-What the title says. Shot on a Minolta 35mm film camera and age stressed with a Nikon D5100. 2005 Sagrada Familia et Environs
2005 Still Life-It’s just some fucking photographs. Shot on a Minolta 35mm film camera, stressed with a Nikon D5100. 2005 Still Life
2005 The Canticle-Originally 3 videos projected on different surfaces with synced audio for an art installation at the Southgate House in Newport Kentucky in 2005. Mainly a ham-fisted attempt to equate feelings of powerlessness to the incessant pressure to buy things in …Continue reading →
2005 The NFS Files-Available on: iTunes Spotify Amazon Napster Deezer Audio collaborations with Nikol F. Soluski. One studio, one from a live performance where she cooked and ate herself. Enjoy. Flash player not working? Try the Spotify…
2005 Unloop-Experiment in mixing and effecting looping and broken records in a digital video editor.
2005/2015 Locust-‘Taunts of Decay’. Audio by roesingape. Video is taken from 2005 roesingape performance piece at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park’s alteractive series, featuring: Sam Womelsdorf, Nik Soluski, Rachel Cook & Roesing Ape dancing. Original piece involved live action in front …Continue reading →
2006 ‘2006’-Available on: Spotify Amazon Deezer Stuff from 2006. Obvi. Enjoy? Flash player not working? Try the Spotify…
2006 8-Fold Live at Media Bridges-Live set in Cincinnati’s Media Bridges studio, what one used to call a cable public access station. There’s a vague possibility it was broadcast.
2006 A Nude Ape-My one and only nude photo shoot. Not very graphic. I don’t remember who took the photos, someone please tell me. Shot in the original Art Damage Lodge in Cincinnati Ohio, on a Minolta 35mm film camera. 2006 A Nude …Continue reading →
2006 Disciplicity & Academics Excerpt – Acting III Journal 3-To a large extent, modern methods of acting tend to deal with the internal experience, as it was largely ignored before our era. Communicating in archetypes was de facto in western culture for thousands of years. The further back you …Continue reading →
2006 Disciplicity & Academics Excerpt – Art Hates Democracy-As a historically and by design multicultural nation, cultural policy in the United States has been necessarily enigmatic. One can easily say that in defining the driving policy not only for culture, but for the majority of domestic matters, the …Continue reading →
2006 Disciplicity & Academics Excerpt – Consolidation-The economic recession in the first few years of the millennium had a profound impact on the health of mid-sized NP cultural organizations – smaller and larger ones were more flexible or better funded and able to survive easier. Although …Continue reading →
2006 Disciplicity & Academics Excerpt – Final Acting III-The recorded-acted word, as opposed to the live-acting word, lives in its own defined space of premeditation. This is not taking into account the possible visual aspects of the acted word. In a sense the only differences sensually would be …Continue reading →
2006 Disciplicity & Academics Excerpt – OAC First Impression-I’m always fascinated by arriving at the headquarters of an influential, well known organization that has impacted my daily life indirectly for years and finding an insignificant looking, bland little building from which so much influence flows. It was somehow …Continue reading →
2006 Disciplicity & Academics Excerpt – What is Culture-To begin a discussion of cultural policy in the United States it is unfortunately necessary to first decide not only what culture is, but what it is when placed next to Policy in the context of the state. That brings …Continue reading →
2006 End of 0h Six-Available on: Apple/iTunes Spotify Tidal Amazon Napster Deezer iHeart Peak poppy Roesing. Enjoy. Try the Spotify…
2006 Father Abraham (Actor’s Cut)-A student film I “acted” in. By Selena Reder. Also features David Garza and the infamous Kaldi’s Coffee House in Cincinnati Ohio.
2006 First Songs-Available on: Spotify After years of noise, this was an attempt to translate it into actual songs. Recorded in a flat in the ghetto of Cincinnati. Flash player not working? Try the Spotify…
2006 I Love You Fuck Me-Available on: Spotify iTunes Amazon Mopey electronic noise songs with sad misanthropic lyrics. Enjoy? Flash player not working? Try the Spotify…
2006 IBI Test Final-Available on: Amazon iTunes Spotify First foray into songwriting after ten years of noise. There’s still some noise, and some learning curves in recording. But I believe there’s some alt-country hits in here somewhere. Flash player not working? Try …Continue reading →
2006 IBI Test Final Full Album-Available on: Amazon Google Play iTunes Spotify Microsoft Groove Or just below Multi-track noise interwoven with effect-laden live-take post-folk songs recorded in a converted rectory in the hinterlands of western Massachusetts during a summer apprenticeship in 2006 described in …Continue reading →
2006 Mash Life-Available on: Spotify iTunes Amazon Noise improvisational multitracking songs, with words and sounds. Flash player not working? Try the Spotify…
2006 Mass Rectory-Available on: Apple Music Spotify Tidal Amazon Napster Deezer iHeart Radio More Peak poppy Roesing, this time recorded in an old rectory in eastern Massachusetts. Enjoy. Try the Spotify…
2006 Media Bridges Live-Live set in Cincinnati’s Media Bridge’s studio, what one used to call a cable public access station. There’s vague possibilities it was broadcast. But I totally fried their recording equipment which made for a nice effect.
2006 Media Bridges Live-Available on: iTunes Spotify Amazon Deezer Live set in the studio of Cincinnati’s public access cable channel, Media bridges. Totally red-lined all of their equipment with the volume, so I incorporated the audio signal drops into the set. Because …Continue reading →
2006 Montage Volant Tonnere-Video noise collage made for a Hurricane Katrina benefit, originally projected onto the external wall of the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati Ohio.
2006 Sampler-Available on: iTunes Spotify An album exploring song-like noise mostly recorded in an old nunnery in western Massachusetts. There are some gems. Flash player not working? Try the Spotify…
2006 Southgate Modem Speak-Random shots of the Modem Speak Ensemble (roesing Ape, John Rich) gig at the historic Southgate House in Newport Kentucky. And some other rando Southgate pics. I forget who the other band is/was. You can listen to a bit of …Continue reading →
2006 The Black Fives & C. H. A. Modest Chef-Live show at the Comet in Northside Cincinnati Ohio for a roesingape CD release. One lucky couple won a raffle for a 4 course meal with noise music.
2006 The Wild Gunmen Go Ape Shit-Available on: Spotify Amazon Deezer The premier Cincinnati Appalachian Noise Band records an album with Roesing Ape at a hipster pad in the ghetto. This is back when ghettos could afford hipster pads. The Wild Gunmen was/is a secret …Continue reading →
2006 Vide-Demo video of Holly Price and Rebecca Bedel piece. Nik Soluski does vocals on second half of music track.
2006 Video Noise-Available on: iTunes Spotify Amazon Napster Deezer Noise specifically multi-tracked in video editing software with clips instead of samples. Enjoy. Flash player not working? Try the Spotify…
2007/2005 Ungrateful Heart Porn-Experimental 2007 song about porn put to a video collage of scraps from various installations made in 2005. Available on: iTunes Spotify Lyrics: What an ungrateful heart, tears up these paper towels porn pouring precipitously out, hard cock in …Continue reading →
2012/2006 Lose-The Bull Loses. Video originally from projections for a piece by Michelle Bump-Morano in 2006. From the album: Amazon iTunes Spotify
2014/2004/1998 Death Poem-I read a poem I wrote at 23, at the age of 39, mixed with b-roll from 2004.
2014/2005/1997 Karmann Ghia Girl-Story written in 1997 about an event in 1994 recorded in 2014 mixed with b-roll from 2005. Pile of junk for you.
2016/2004 Winter Bismuth-Live synth/banjo set recorded in a trailer in the redwoods set to some b-roll I had sitting around from 2004.
2016/2005 broke-Synth voice and drum jam set to b-roll from a few dance pieces in 2005. Available on: Amazon iTunes Spotify
2016/2006 Antenna for the Light-Banjo ditty recorded on a porch in a forest. Video is b-roll backdrop from a 2006 performance piece.
2016/2006 Winter Slug Half Inch Journey-Live banjo/sampler/synth set recorded in a trailer in a redwood forest during a winter rainstorm. Video is b-roll from a 2006 dance performance back drop.
2016/2006/2001 Number 35-Live banjo jam from 2016 with lyrics from 2001 over video b-roll from 2006. Secondary vocals by Migle Ka.
2018/2016/2004 Windows 11 Soundtrack-Available on: Spotify Amazon Napster Deezer Soundtrack to the Roesing Ape/Beth Whelan co-op presented by the Regional Arts and Culture Council in Portland Oregon in it’s 2018 Night Lights series. Audio was remixes of Roesing Ape work from 2004 …Continue reading →
2020/2004 Potatoes Mashed Comdey’s Mad Max (Corona Virus)-Written by Oscar Velarde, starring Edna Mira Raia & Jamin Jollo. Features the soundscapes of the Cincinnati Laptop Orchestra, recorded live at the Mockbee in Cincinnati circa 2004.
2022/2006 F. Art Jan. 6-Available on: Apple Music Spotify Tidal Amazon Napster Deezer iHeart Radio Robot dragon speech from a performance piece performed at the Contemporary Arts Center of Cincinnati on January 6, 2006, remixed into some weird shit. Enjoy. Try the Spotify… …Continue reading →
1998/2003 Merlin with Cricket - A 20 minute improvisational guitar solo over a live recording of nighttime June crickets and tree frogs in the Ohio river valley. Put to b-roll hypnotic static TV footage from a performance piece done in 2003. Smoke a bowl and … Continue reading →
2000/2001/2002/2003 Aught Art pt. 1 - Random shots of random artsy crap I did, saw, invented, made up, whatever. Shot on a Minolta 35mm film camera and aged stressed with a Nikon D5100. 2004 Ought Art pt. 1
2001 2002 - Available on: iTunes Spotify Napster Deezer Experimental multitracking and live noise intensified by the end of the 20th century. Enjoy? Flash player not working? Try the Spotify…
2001 Art Damage Benefit (Live) - Available on: Spotify iTunes Amazon A long time ago, in a city on the border of the Upland South and the Midwest in the greatest empire the world has ever known, there was a public radio station called 88.3 … Continue reading →
2001 Art Night Out - Filmed by C. Spencer Yeh. Roesing and Spencer hit a couple bars and art parties on a winter’s night in Cincinnati Ohio. Cameos by: Roesing Ape, Holly Price, Scott Hisey, Tim Schwallie, Monkey the cat, Bob the cat, Andrew Hissett, … Continue reading →
2001 Beltane Brahkage - Available on: iTunes Spotify Amazon Napster Deezer Audio recording of a performance piece at the Southgate House in Newport Kentucky, celebrating the Beltane fires by simulating sex with a six foot blow-up penis and a lampshade in front of … Continue reading →
2001 Beltane Brakhage - Wherein Roesing Ape and Burning Star Core (C. Spencer Yeh) perform noise in front of a video montage of computer generated fire and Stan Brakhage’s film of his wife giving birth and Lauren Brown’s improvisational dance leads to a simulated … Continue reading →
2001 Buttons, Smoke & Fire - Performance piece at Sudsy Malone’s laundromat and bar in Cincinnati Ohio for George Washington’s birthday. Cover charge was one dollar per person, which was collected in a bowl and burnt in a funereal pyre at the end the chant at … Continue reading →
2001 Death Beam Practice 2 - The Cincinnati noise super-group Death Beam: Roesing Ape, C. Spencer Yeh, and Ron Orovitz. There’s an audio sync issue but f*%k it, it’s Death Beam.
2001 Elitism - Elitism Separation Lingo Jargon Separation Pack Tribe Separation Dialect Extension Specialization Aristocracy Separation Angle Click Fashion Elitism Reserve Extension Separation Ethnicity Lineage Heredity Separation Difference Hierarchy Separation Competition Lineage Click Family Separation Elitism Dialect Lingo Separation Individual {there is no … Continue reading →
2001 Fucks Me Variations 3 and 4 - Available on: iTunes Spotify Napster Deezer The first official Roesing Ape release. Out on Burning Star Core’s Dronedisco label, it was a six CD box set that retailed for $500. Single discs from the collection were $10, but which … Continue reading →
2001 Fucks Me Variations 5 and 6 - Available on: iTunes Spotify Napster Deezer The first official Roesing Ape release. Out on Burning Star Core’s Dronedisco label, it was a six CD box set that retailed for $500. Single discs from the collection were $10, but which … Continue reading →
2001 Gordy | Roesing | Price - Available on: iTunes Spotify Amazon Napster Deezer Improvisation test with Tim Schwallie, Holly Price, and Roesing Ape. Its weird. Enjoy. Flash player not working? Try the Spotify… 
2001 In The Shoe - The wreck of living in the David Shoe building in the West End of Cincinnati in the fall of 2001. Shot on a 35mm Minolta film camera and age stressed with a Nikon D5100. 2001 In The Shoe
2001 It’s Cute with Beef - It’s cute with beef Let’s come together and be one In saying something stupid Let’s let our hugs outweigh our words The warmth and fuzziness, a protective fur The freedom that agreement lets you feel Feels itself to be real, … Continue reading →
2001 Kentucky Live - Available on: iTunes Spotify Amazon Deezer Early live noise sets at the Southgate House in Newport Kentucky and the Masonic Lodge in Covington Kentucky. Enjoy? Flash player not working? Try the Spotify… 
2001 Live at The Comet - Live noise set to Fellini’s Roma played in reverse at the infamous ‘The Comet’ in Cincinnati Ohio. During that neat few months when C. Spencer Yeh (of Burning Star Core) and Lesniak (of Culture Queer) were part of Roesing Ape.
2001 Live at the Southgate House - Live noise at the historic no longer extant Newport Kentucky Southgate House. Taped by Wit.
2001 Live on WAIF 88.3 - A few minutes of random footage during a roesing ape DJ session for the Art Damage show on WAIF 88.3 in Cincinnati Ohio. Cameo/PSA by Holly Price.
2001 Masonic Lodge Art Show - Live noise at an art opening at the infamous Masonic Lodge in Covington Kentucky by Roesing Ape and Burning Star Core. A fascinating glimpse into the alternative culture of Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky at the turn of the century. You can watch … Continue reading →
2001 Masonic Lodge Art Show (Yes) - Available on: iTunes Spotify Amazon Napster Deezer Live noise set for an art show at the iconic Masonic Lodge in Covington Kentucky. Featuring Lesniak and C. Spencer Yeh when I was cool enough to have them in my band. … Continue reading →
2001 Mob & Numb (opening scene) - Weird keyboard music plays. There are sounds of men yelling and things crashing. Lights come up on two curtains pushed inward meeting at a 120 degree angle center stage, where there is a toilet. On both sides at eye level … Continue reading →
2001 Motion - Motion My motion is strange my money is on the matter my matter is the key the situation is flattered my motion is me my motion is named my master is keen I follow the latter the latter is mean … Continue reading →
2001 Norton’s Anthology - The Norton anthology of American literature states, and I quote, fuck you, go to hell. What’s the matter with you? I will be your shadow and that is the sentimental and romantic truth isn’t it. That is the point wherein … Continue reading →
2001 Point Beside It - And then there was this point beside it; And beside the point lying on the ground was this huge thing.. power itself to behold, orange, and the size of a grapefruit. As a matter of fact, it was a grapefruit. … Continue reading →
2001 Riddle & Shoe - Available on: Spotify iTunes Amazon Just in time for Halloween, the best haunted house soundtrack album you’ll hear all year. Decent ambient electronica recorded in home studios on Riddle Road and in the David Shoe building in Cincinnati. Guest … Continue reading →
2001 Roesing Lesniak Ebaugh Yeh - Available on: iTunes Spotify Amazon Napster Deezer Live jam at the Masonic Lodge in Covington Kentucky with Roesing Ape, Jeremy Lesniak, Jesse Ebaugh, and Spencer Yeh. Video here. Enjoy. Flash player not working? Try the Spotify…
2001 Sanctum to Drones - Available on: iTunes Spotify Amazon Napster Deezer Studio recorded noise sets for anti-social performance pieces at warehouse parties. Featuring Burning Star Core on violin. Enjoy. Flash player not working? Try the Spotify… 
2001 Short Not Stories: 1996-2001 - Theatrical, thoughtful, and mind bending short stories and essays. Primarily useful for being found 100 years from now and turned into a smash hit on a virtual reality holographic cable channel. Available in digital format and paperback.
2001 The Electric Company Show - Show at a short lived ultra hip venue on Vine Street in Cincinnati Ohio. Involved Chalk, Roesing Ape, S. Durm, Lauren Brown, Julie Roessler and many others. I remember the guy who ran the venue always wore sunglasses in the … Continue reading →
2001 The Sky Giving Birth to the Moon - Live performance and video montage piece performed at SSNOVA-Mockbee in Cincinnati Ohio. Music, words, and video by Roesing Ape. Choreography and movement by Mickey Morgan. Set by Julie Roessler. Video support by Spencer Yeh. 
2001 Thighs - Art for fuck’s sake sanctioned as purity. Well what if everything fell apart. Would. There. Be. Tacos. Knock. Nigh. Needle high, and high needles. Needless. Ned and his. Needless needles. Neither. Nigh. Knock. No. Membrane sandwich. Remembering which land we … Continue reading →
2001 Zog & Roe Art Damage Birthday Show - Available on: Apple Music Spotify Tidal Amazon Deezer iHeart Radio Live on WAIF FM Cincinnati in October of 2001, the Art Damage show, featuring all Zog and Roe projects and mashups. The highlight is ‘Atton’ where Zog does a … Continue reading →
2001/2004/2005/2006 Art Damage Errata pt. 1 - Art Damage Inc. graphics, logos, miscellaneous, and fliers from 2001-2006. 2004/2005/2006 Art Damage Errata pt. 1
2001/2004/2005/2006 Art Damage Errata pt. 3 - Art Damage Inc. graphics, logos, miscellaneous, and fliers from 2001-2006. 2006 Art Damage Errata
2002 Mickey Morgan’s Blue Bottle Rehearsal - Rehearsal for Mickey Morgan’s Blue Bottle at the Contemporary Dance Theatre of Cincinnati. Later presented by the Contemporary Dance Theatre of Cincinnati at the Aronoff Center for the Arts. Choreography, voice and writing by Mickey Morgan, video by C. Spencer … Continue reading →
2002 99 - 99% of art is a useless lie, a sick leftover side effect of the 17th century notion of the artist as something more than an artisan, as more than a worker, as more than a blue collar fuck, brought about … Continue reading →
2002 American Synth God - Available on: Spotify iTunes The Synth Album. The year of Synth. Recorded while listening to live BBC reports of the second Iraq War. Flash player not working? Try the Spotify…
2002 Belgian Graves Paris Fog - Bad shots of the graves of United States soldiers fallen in world wars buried overseas, and foggy Paris. Shot on a Minolta 35mm film camera and age stressed with a Nikon D5100. 2002 Belgian Graves Paris Fog
2002 Burning Star Core Southgate Halloween - Live at the Southgate House Ballroom in Newport Kentucky, Halloween 2002. Enjoy.
2002 Cincinnati Resist - Shots from one of the social justice rallies in Cincinnati circa 2002 after the police murder of Timothy Thomas. Shot on a Minolta 35mm film camera and age stressed with a Nikon D5100. 2002 Cincinnati Resist
2002 Civilization - Civilization is the grime on my teeth. In civilization desires are like grains of sand. Lying about on the floor over there is the want of a new couch. Behind that book hides the wish for a better nose. Floating … Continue reading →
2002 Death Beam - Available on: Spotify Amazon Napster Deezer iHeart The Cincinnati noise super-group Death Beam: Roesing Ape, C. Spencer Yeh, and Ron Orovitz.. Enjoy. Flash player not working? Try the Spotify… 
2002 Death Beam Live in the Southgate House Parlor - The Cincinnati noise super-group Death Beam: Roesing Ape, C. Spencer Yeh, Ron Orovitz and Jeremy Lesniak. Live in the Historic Southgate House Parlor in Newport Kentucky. The audio slowly goes out of sync, but I didn’t care and you won’t … Continue reading →
2002 Death Beam Mini Tour Pics - A few snaps of the Original Cincinnati noise super-group Death Beam; Roesing Ape, C. Spencer Yeh, and Ron Orovitz, while they were on a mini-tour in the upper Midwest.
2002 Death Beam Mini-Tour pt. 1 - The Cincinnati noise super-group Death Beam: Roesing Ape, C. Spencer Yeh, Ron Orovitz and Jeremy Lesniak. Live at the Empty Bottle in Chicago.
2002 Death Beam Mini-Tour pt. 3 - The Cincinnati noise super-group Death Beam: Roesing Ape, C. Spencer Yeh and Ron Orovitz. Live somewhere near Louisville Kentucky. It’s the best Death Beam show, if you watch all of it you won’t be disappointed.
2002 Death Beam Mini-Tour pt. 4 - The Cincinnati noise super-group Death Beam: Roesing Ape, C. Spencer Yeh and Ron Orovitz. Live somewhere in Michigan?
2002 Death Beam Practice 3 - The Cincinnati noise super-group Death Beam: Roesing Ape, C. Spencer Yeh, and Ron Orovitz.
2002 F. Art - Originally titled Fuck Art, the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center wouldn’t allow that in their marketing. Rambling performance art piece comprised of academic and historic arguments against art as a thing of value. So an anti-art art piece performed at a … Continue reading →
2002 F. Art EP - Available on: iTunes Spotify Amazon Deezer Audio release of a Roesing Ape show presented at the Contemporary Arts Center of Cincinnati. Featuring Lacey Montgomery, C. Spencer Yeh, John Rich, Sarah Mandrake, Lesniak, Julie Roessler, and Ron Orovitz. Here’s the … Continue reading →
2002 Floating Listlessly on the Fat of the Land - The journal of a Citizen of American Empire just after the turn of the 21st century devolving into the prose of madness, disillusionment, hallucinogenic and sexual escapades of poetry, alcohol, drugs, and beauty as he grapples with the absurdity of … Continue reading →
2002 Holly Price Art - Catalogue shots for an art show by Holly Price, and some random stuff. Shot on a Minolta 35mm and age-stressed with a Nikon D5100. 2002 Holly Price Art
2002 Live at Sudsy Malone’s - Live noise set at the infamous Sudsy Malone’s Bar & Laundromat in Cincinnati Ohio. During that neat few months when C. Spencer Yeh (of Burning Star Core) and Lesniak (of Culture Queer) were part of Roesing Ape. 
2002 Live at Sudsy Malone’s EP - Available on: iTunes Spotify Amazon Napster Deezer Live noise set at the iconic Sudsy Malone’s on Short Vine in Cincinnati Ohio. Featuring Lesniak and C. Spencer Yeh when I was cool enough to have them in my band. Enjoy. … Continue reading →
2002 Lost Parlour Set - Snapshot of a live noise set in the Southgate House upper parlour. First time integrating banjo into noise. Enjoy.
2002 Ludique - Available on: Amazon iTunes Spotify Mixture of live studio, weird multitracking, and call and response voice tracks. Flash player not working? Try the Spotify…
2002 Mickey Morgan’s Blue Bottle - Presented by the Contemporary Dance Theatre of Cincinnati at the Aronoff Center for the Arts. Choreography, voice and writing by Mickey Morgan, video by C. Spencer Yeh, music by Roesing Ape.
2002 Miscmidsum - Available on: iTunes Spotify Amazon Napster Deezer Early noise. No rules, no beats, no recording standards. Enjoy? Flash player not working? Try the Spotify… 
2002 More Poop - There once was a poop. And in this poop everything stood still, as if concrete blooded itself, or rather blood concreted itself. The aqua-ducts flooded with concrete poop to still the very soul of nothing reading bridges of the solid … Continue reading →
2002 No Comet No The Bronze - Available on: Spotify iTunes Amazon Experiments in noise multitracking, live field recording (i.e. an effected dialogue with a Verizon customer service representative) and computer generated beat bashes. Some of it is cool. Flash player not working? Try the Spotify…
2002 Performance & Time Arts - Available on: iTunes Spotify Amazon Napster Deezer Audio release of a Roesing Ape show presented as part of the Contemporary Dance Theatre of Cincinnati’s Performance & Time Arts series at the College Hill Town Hall. Featuring Sarah Mandrake, Keith … Continue reading →
2002 Resume - I want to be an Actor. I want to be a producer. I want to be a writer. I want to be a costume designer. I want to be a director. I want to be a dancer. I want to … Continue reading →
2002 Roesing-Yeh (Live at Sudsy’s) - Available on: iTunes Spotify Amazon Napster Deezer Live harsh noise by Roesing Ape and C. Spencer Yeh at Sudsy Malone’s on Short Vine in Cincinnati. You’re going to wonder the whole time if that distortion sound was live, or … Continue reading →
2002 Sexualized Boredom - I had my fingers in a girl’s cunt for three minutes today, but other than that all day I was convoluted, distracted, and dreamy. God is in the quick of my nails I keeping biting to get to. I fart … Continue reading →
2002 Southgate House Live 02 - Available on: iTunes Spotify Amazon Deezer Live noise at the Southgate House in Newport Kentucky, again. Enjoy? Flash player not working? Try the Spotify… 
2002 Stereo Oriented - Available on: iTunes Spotify Synth and computer improv. Intense stoner heavy. Flash player not working? Try the Spotify…
2002 The Painful Miscellany - Available on: Spotify iTunes Amazon The worst Roesing Ape album. For the die-hard. Experiments in harsh computer generated and badly recorded noise, and some pieces I did for some performance art of other people with the goal to make … Continue reading →
2003 A Beautiful Woman (Second Edition) - Novelist Roesing Ape’s first book for Chapultepec Press reveals Kentucky’s most-beloved son, Job, consecrating 400 acres of pine cones and leaves with all that he has. A Beautiful Woman is a true Odysseus tale of one man’s visceral struggle to … Continue reading →
2003 A Beautiful Woman Excerpt – Ancestry/Forest Microwave - I am descended of slave owners and racists. I was born and raised in the sacred hunting grounds of Can-Tuc-Kee, washed clean with the blood of pregnant squaws and forsaken braves, all guilt made to dust with centuries. Legend has … Continue reading →
2003 A Beautiful Woman Excerpt – Bit o’ Bliss - And Job dreamt of bliss, and it was purple and green and blue and fuzzy like a fucking care-bear. And it was always setting, and yet never ending. Achieving always, it was. And the bliss was cream-colored fear, rather than … Continue reading →
2003 A Beautiful Woman Excerpt – Can I? - All was mist and water lapping, and Job dreamt, for what else was there to do? And so Job dreamt of the absence of the beautiful women, and these words rang in his dreaming and dream-lobed ears; Can I vomit … Continue reading →
2003 A Beautiful Woman Excerpt – Corporate Dick - Men spoke to him. About other men. They cursed a lot and all that he could see was their mouths moving. Thin masculine lips each trying to improve upon the size of its naturally allocated cock. Tales of adventure and … Continue reading →
2003 A Beautiful Woman Excerpt – Cup & Slipper - As he drifted off he heard the rain pattering on the roof like baby food. All that money wasted on birth control pills. He dreamt of cold steel rubbing him, and chanting Ohm chakras and executing aerobatic flips and wiggles. … Continue reading →
2003 A Beautiful Woman Excerpt – Forgot Remember - This would be a dream he wouldn’t remember. He dreamt of yellow teeth, faded that way like the ceiling of a good centenarian bar in the late twentieth century. Yellow like golden sun. Yellow like wildflower stains on a little … Continue reading →
2003 A Beautiful Woman Excerpt – More Harm Than Good - Oh shit, he had done more harm than good. He was running through a field of ping pong tables cluttered with suburban virginity and noses with little moles on them beckoning cutely at the centers of his eyes. Giggles and … Continue reading →
2003 A Beautiful Woman Excerpt – Pinky Symmetry - He awoke in a dark mixture of pressures, textures and temperatures and light which his mind went on to describe as a cold puddle of water on a clear starry night in a forest. Right quick he felt a pain … Continue reading →
2003 A Beautiful Woman Excerpt – Sky Says - His jaw jutted before him, was his leader and master and hope. He walked among fields of school desk legs sprouting fresh and green out of the rolling grassy hills, he looked for and weeded from among them thin strips … Continue reading →
2003 A Beautiful Woman Excerpt – This Time a Train - This time he was on a train; he had never actually been on a train, so it was completely imaginary. Everybody had their own booth and played video games, but the booths were picture-taking booths, so they would take quarters … Continue reading →
2003 A Beautiful Woman Excerpt – Tongue Scab Dream - And then Job really fell asleep again. He was directing a movie. Or what appeared to be a movie and no one could understand him because he had replaced his missing tongue with a flat wooden stick. The stick tasted … Continue reading →
2003 A Beautiful Woman Excerpt – Against a Tree - All this felt like a bad reputation, this walking back to the stream. It felt like an irreversible fault, a bad dream, a bum deal, a real lemon of suck. It felt like he had no friends as the brook … Continue reading →
2003 A Beautiful Woman Excerpt – Dog’s Leg Night - You see I need to find a way through the cold dark night. You see coffee might not do it, and plus I don’t have any coffee. Pot would make me sleepy. The skin that slides greasily over the knuckles … Continue reading →
2003 A Beautiful Woman Excerpt – Emasculation - Job had meant to cut off his penis. He had actually been looking forward to this event for quite some time, and it had required the greatest of efforts to keep from doing it much sooner. He had read in … Continue reading →
2003 A Beautiful Woman Excerpt – Expressive Table/Angry Woman - He couldn’t wait to just cut it all off. Every inch of flesh was a word, a sentence, and a life. Like popping a hard, swollen zit. He dreamt of tapping his head and the angry woman sitting silently in … Continue reading →
2003 A Beautiful Woman Excerpt – Slut and Caramel - That night Job dreamed of rivers of blood tinkling slowly from all parts of his body as if he was the center sea of a red watered domain. His soul the firmament, his body the matter of which all was … Continue reading →
2003 A Beautiful Woman Excerpt – Sycophant Moon - The moon is now our sycophant, and the earth our omnipotent sleeping grave. Our shoes the thrones of our feet, our fingers the dreadlocks of our slit wrists. The ashtray our baptismal basin, the smog of cars our aphrodisiac musk. … Continue reading →
2003 A Beautiful Woman Excerpt – The Life of Some Men - Job dreamed of open asshole flaring vagina porn. And he dreamed of it very well. They were all pages but they were living, breathing pages. Sticky crackles of a dim light reflected off their magazine flesh, but they breathed and … Continue reading →
2003 A Beautiful Woman Excerpt – Thoughts on Tongue Burial - And of course a guy like Job dreams an awful lot. I mean something had to be going on in the freak’s mind now, right? Something had to be pushing those gears, jumping on those levers, veritably humping those big … Continue reading →
2003 Alteractive – Sarah Mann with Roessler & Soluski - Performance at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park’s Alteractive series, 2003. Created by Sarah Mann, with performance assist by Julie Roessler and Nikol Soluski. They prepared and served drinks to noise.
2003 Cincinnati Hip - Hipstery arty stuff and people in Cincinnati around 2003. Shot on a Minolta 35mm film camera, aged stressed with a Nikon D5100. 2003 Cincinnati Hip
2003 Computer Music - Available on: Spotify iTunes Amazon Experiments in computer generated anti-edm. Enjoy. Flash player not working? Try the Spotify…
2003 Death Beam Prax - Available on: Spotify iTunes Wimp-Tidal Napster Deezer The Cincinnati noise super-group Death Beam: Roesing Ape, C. Spencer Yeh, Ron Orovitz, and sometimes Jeremy Lesniak, in a particularly gnarly practice session. Enjoy. Try the Spotify… 
2003 Death Beam What is it Like to be a Bat? - Available on: Spotify iTunes Wimp-Tidal Napster Deezer The Cincinnati noise super-group Death Beam: Roesing Ape, C. Spencer Yeh, Ron Orovitz, and sometimes Jeremy Lesniak, live and in studio. Enjoy. Try the Spotify… 
2003 Death Beam WXXX News Time Warp - Available on: Spotify iTunes Wimp-Tidal Napster Deezer The Cincinnati noise super-group Death Beam: Roesing Ape, C. Spencer Yeh, Ron Orovitz, and sometimes Jeremy Lesniak; live sets in front of real live audiences and in a real underground studio. Enjoy. … Continue reading →
2003 Diaboli Ex Machina Excerpt - Diaboli Ex Machina Act 1 Scene 1 [In this play, every character should be of a different ethnicity. Maybe even with thick accents. Scene opens on a jagged wall running the length of the stage (upstage) in front of which … Continue reading →
2003 FArt - Available on: iTunes Spotify Napster Deezer Words with noise, artsy-like. Enjoy. Flash player not working? Try the Spotify… 
2003 Infinity Balls - Balls: Infinity in every direction: if infinity, then all things that happen or are, happen and repeat an infinite number of times. Else; Infinite variety is the rule. Basic laws and repeated patterns in form on any level of the … Continue reading →
2003 International Noise Conference - Held at Churchill’s Pub in Miami Florida. Shot on a Minolta 35mm film camera, aged stressed with a Nikon D5100. 2003 International Noise Conference
2003 Karst - Photos from the environs of Karst-o-rama in southern Kentucky circa 2003. Shot on a Minolta 35mm film camera and age stressed with a Nikon D5100. 2003 Karst
2003 Limitation - My pointlessness used to be a pleasing part of me. I reveled in the aimless idiocy of all things created. The blind throbbing mass of all squirting its ecclesiastical orgasmic fluid like flame into the all of the universe. Age … Continue reading →
2003 No Really, I’m Not a Robot - No really, I’m not a robot Automation: There forms a natural hierarchy of all possible mates designated by personal and physical qualities and oddities, a flip of the hair, the un-conscience drop of ‘dude’ and ‘like’ and it becomes not … Continue reading →
2003 Piling Water Practice - Choreography by Holly Price and Rebecca Bedel. Music by Matt Anderson. Special appearance and video by Roesing Ape. Practice for the grand opening preview party of the Contemporary Arts Center of Cincinnati’s new Zaha Hadid building. Mixed early and late … Continue reading →
2003 REPEAT REPEAT - Plays, one acts, plot elevations, and monologues, some performed live, some not, detailing an anti-traditional study of drama at the turn of the 21st century. Available in digital format and paperback.
2003 The Enemy of All Good Times (Remastered) - Available on: Spotify iTunes An attempt at ‘studio’ recording noise and spoken word tracks, originally released by DroneDisco. It’s pretty sometimes. Recorded in a 150 year old building in the Betts-Longworth district of Cincinnati Ohio while the projects were … Continue reading →
2003 To Me - Available on: iTunes Spotify Well recorded HQ noise and experimentation during a brief moment in time when everything was going ‘well’. Includes live studio sets, a live set at the Southgate House in Kentucky, and crafted mutltitrack noise. A … Continue reading →
2003 What the Hell is There to Write About Anyways - What the hell is there to write about anyways? Suit w/blood, axe w/carcass. One laughing all through. One One One Here This Goes File Our Wrath With The Peace Of Race To Be This Won’t Work This Isn’t Free This … Continue reading →
2004 “A Beautiful Woman” by Roesing Ape Book Release - Featuring Nik Soluski, Gabriel Molnar (The Black Fives), George Laub (8Fold), Julie Roessler (Three Red Squares and an Orange), Dana Hamblen, Jeremy Lesniak, Joshua Treble, David Garza and more… Held in an old winery on a hill with a creek … Continue reading →
2004 Art Damage Roesing Ape Birthday Tribute - Available on: Apple/iTunes Spotify WIMP/Tidal Amazon Napster Deezer Broadcast Live on WAIF FM Cincinnati Ohio. Enjoy. Try the Spotify… 
2004 Book Noise - A short noise set at the 2004 release of the novel ‘A Beautiful Woman’ at SSNova/The Mockbee in Cincinnati Ohio’s Brighton District. Also my video capture settings were messed up so the audio is totally redlining. 
2004 Cincinnati Fringe Festival - Shot on a Minolta 35mm film camera. 2004 Cincinnati Fringe Festival
2004 Eating Ankle (bluporn) - DVD menu screen produced for a past release mixing b-roll from various installation pieces and a track from a concurrent album.
2004 Fake Art Noise - Available on: Amazon iTunes Spotify Fake Art Noise for various performance pieces 2002-2004 in Cincinnati Ohio. “At first I thought my computer speakers were broken…” – Melissa Terry, Facebook Post Flash player not working? Try the Spotify…
2004 Fake Art Noise Full Album - “At first I thought my computer speakers were broken…” – Melissa Terry, Facebook Post. Fake Art Noise for various performance pieces 2002-2004 in Cincinnati Ohio. Youtube
2004 Lights - Just some photos of lights. Shot on a 35mm Minolta film camera, age stressed with a Nikon D5100. 2004 Lights
2004 Parks & Crap Like That - Cincinnati Ohio and Covington Kentucky. Shot on a Minolta 35mm film camera and age stressed with a Nikon D5100. 2004 Parks & Crap Like That
2004 Pittsburgh Single - Available on: iTunes Spotify Amazon Napster Deezer Live noise sets packaged for an underground noise label in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania in 2004, “ The Year Noise Broke “. Enjoy. Flash player not working? Try the Spotify… 
2004 Roesing Ape & Soluski Kitty Part 2 - Performance piece for the Culture Queer CD release at the Southgate House in Newport Kentucky. Part 2. Performed and created by Roesing Ape and Nikol Soluski.
2004 Roesing Soluski Roessler Sampler - Sample DVD track for the performance art collaboration of Roesing Ape, Nik Soluski, and Julie Roessler (3 Red Squares and an Orange).
2004 The Year Noise Broke - Available on: iTunes Spotify Amazon Napster Deezer Some straight up improvised electronic noise from the best year Noise ever had in southern Ohio, 2004. Enjoy. Yeah the flash player doesn’t work… Try the Spotify…
2004 Year Wasted on Deviant Art - A collection of album covers, 35mm film photos and Myspace cover art that was forgotten on the Deviant Art site for twelve years. 2004 Year Wasted on Deviant Art
2005 30th Party - Photos of the 30th party. Shot on a Minolta 35mm, traditionally developed and scanned in. 2005 30th Party
2005 Antaesop’s Fables - Available on: iTunes Spotify Amazon Modern day fairy tales inspired by Aesop’s fables written and read by various Cincinnati area artists including Rachel Cook, Nikol Soluski and Roesing Ape. Performed live at the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park’s alteractive … Continue reading →
2005 Art Damage Interview - Short clip from a documentary on the Cincinnati underground music scene. Please inform me of original creator and title and link to full film.
2005 Art Damage Lodge Live - Available on: Spotify Amazon Napster Deezer Live show at the original(?) Art Damage Lodge in Northside Cincinnati Ohio. I don’t remember the address it was across the street and down a ways from the 2nd iteration… Anyway on first … Continue reading →
2005 Asks is the American Christ Satan - Available on: iTunes Spotify WIMP/Tidal Amazon Napster Deezer Best attempt at 2000s noise-pop. I never got an answer. Enjoy. Try the Spotify… 
2005 Carcassonne et Toulouse - The old fort of Carcassonne outside of Toulouse, and a bit of Toulouse. Shot on a Minolta 35mm film camera and age stressed with a Nikon D5100. 2005 Carcassonne et Toulouse
2005 Cincinnati People - Photos of people in Cincinnati. Shot on a Minolta 35mm, traditionally developed and scanned in. 2005 Cincinnati People
2005 Eats - Available on: iTunes Spotify Napster Deezer Experimental multitracking and live noise in a warehouse from the mid aughts. Enjoy? Try the Spotify… 
2005 Happy Holidays - Available on: iTunes Spotify A holiday album in July. Some robots sing on it. Try the Spotify…
2005 Homes - Artsy shots in Cincinnati hipster homes during the era of the second Bush. Shot on a Minolta 35mm film camera and age stressed with a Nikon D5100. 2005 Homes
2005 How Some Came Between Others - A weird story with a weird video for a performance piece at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park’s Alteractive series. Dancing by Sam Womelsdorf, Rachel Cook, Nikol Soluski and Roesing Ape.
2005 jUStin!katKO Live at Media Bridges - jUStin!katKO performing live for an Art Damage Noise show at the public cable access channel in Cincinnati, Ohio; Media Bridges.
2005 Land of Zog - Available on: iTunes Spotify Amazon Napster Deezer Sheer noise inspired by whatever Zog was, Iovae, and the dark swampy underbelly of 2000’s Price Hill Cincinnati culture. Enjoy. Flash player not working? Try the Spotify… 
2005 Media - Available on: iTunes Spotify Amazon Various noise leftovers from projects and albums, and some spoken word remixed. Enjoy? Flash player not working? Try the Spotify…
2005 Music is Bullshit - Available on: Amazon iTunes Spotify A mixture of banjo pop, live noise and weird studio multitracking. Flash player not working? Try the Spotify… Original CD Cover
2005 O Tree - A weird story with a weird video for a performance piece at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park’s Alteractive series. Story and speech by Rachel Cook. Cheap Bryce 3D tree video by Roesing Ape.
2005 Sagrada Familia et Environs - What the title says. Shot on a Minolta 35mm film camera and age stressed with a Nikon D5100. 2005 Sagrada Familia et Environs
2005 Still Life - It’s just some fucking photographs. Shot on a Minolta 35mm film camera, stressed with a Nikon D5100. 2005 Still Life
2005 The Canticle - Originally 3 videos projected on different surfaces with synced audio for an art installation at the Southgate House in Newport Kentucky in 2005. Mainly a ham-fisted attempt to equate feelings of powerlessness to the incessant pressure to buy things in … Continue reading →
2005 The NFS Files - Available on: iTunes Spotify Amazon Napster Deezer Audio collaborations with Nikol F. Soluski. One studio, one from a live performance where she cooked and ate herself. Enjoy. Flash player not working? Try the Spotify… 
2006 8-Fold Live at Media Bridges - Live set in Cincinnati’s Media Bridges studio, what one used to call a cable public access station. There’s a vague possibility it was broadcast.
2006 Disciplicity & Academics Excerpt – A Passion Analyzed - A blue binder lay before me. Naturally, I open it. Therein contained lies A Passion for Brandy, a new play by a New Yorker named Mark Eisman. From the first two lines I devise its purpose as a sadly lighthearted … Continue reading →
2006 Disciplicity & Academics Excerpt – Acting III Dutchman Monologue - In this monologue, I finally break out of character after being subjected to Lula’s insidious and subtle racism for the length of the play. Out of me comes an explosion of the fundamental confusion of a black man accepted into … Continue reading →
2006 Disciplicity & Academics Excerpt – Acting III Journal 3 - To a large extent, modern methods of acting tend to deal with the internal experience, as it was largely ignored before our era. Communicating in archetypes was de facto in western culture for thousands of years. The further back you … Continue reading →
2006 Disciplicity & Academics Excerpt – Art Hates Democracy - As a historically and by design multicultural nation, cultural policy in the United States has been necessarily enigmatic. One can easily say that in defining the driving policy not only for culture, but for the majority of domestic matters, the … Continue reading →
2006 Disciplicity & Academics Excerpt – Final Acting III - The recorded-acted word, as opposed to the live-acting word, lives in its own defined space of premeditation. This is not taking into account the possible visual aspects of the acted word. In a sense the only differences sensually would be … Continue reading →
2006 Disciplicity & Academics Excerpt – OAC First Impression - I’m always fascinated by arriving at the headquarters of an influential, well known organization that has impacted my daily life indirectly for years and finding an insignificant looking, bland little building from which so much influence flows. It was somehow … Continue reading →
2006 DJ Cuddly-D & Abiyah COMMercial NOIse - With Soluski & Quinn Showgirls. Live at The Comet in Northside-Cincinnati Ohio.
2006 End of 0h Six - Available on: Apple/iTunes Spotify Tidal Amazon Napster Deezer iHeart Peak poppy Roesing. Enjoy. Try the Spotify… 
2006 I Love You Fuck Me - Available on: Spotify iTunes Amazon Mopey electronic noise songs with sad misanthropic lyrics. Enjoy? Flash player not working? Try the Spotify…
2006 Mass Rectory - Available on: Apple Music Spotify Tidal Amazon Napster Deezer iHeart Radio More Peak poppy Roesing, this time recorded in an old rectory in eastern Massachusetts. Enjoy. Try the Spotify… 
2006 Montage Volant Tonnere - Video noise collage made for a Hurricane Katrina benefit, originally projected onto the external wall of the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati Ohio.
2006 Sampler - Available on: iTunes Spotify An album exploring song-like noise mostly recorded in an old nunnery in western Massachusetts. There are some gems. Flash player not working? Try the Spotify…
2006 Southgate Modem Speak - Random shots of the Modem Speak Ensemble (roesing Ape, John Rich) gig at the historic Southgate House in Newport Kentucky. And some other rando Southgate pics. I forget who the other band is/was. You can listen to a bit of … Continue reading →
2006 The Wild Gunmen Go Ape Shit - Available on: Spotify Amazon Deezer The premier Cincinnati Appalachian Noise Band records an album with Roesing Ape at a hipster pad in the ghetto. This is back when ghettos could afford hipster pads. The Wild Gunmen was/is a secret … Continue reading →
2013/2006 Sunny Porch w/ Scabs McGee - Porch jam offset on video b-roll from 2006. With Shannon McGavock.
2016/2006 Antenna for the Light - Banjo ditty recorded on a porch in a forest. Video is b-roll backdrop from a 2006 performance piece.
2016/2006/2001 Number 35 - Live banjo jam from 2016 with lyrics from 2001 over video b-roll from 2006. Secondary vocals by Migle Ka.
2018/2016/2004 Windows 11 Soundtrack - Available on: Spotify Amazon Napster Deezer Soundtrack to the Roesing Ape/Beth Whelan co-op presented by the Regional Arts and Culture Council in Portland Oregon in it’s 2018 Night Lights series. Audio was remixes of Roesing Ape work from 2004 … Continue reading →
2020/2004 Potatoes Mashed Comdey’s Mad Max (Corona Virus) - Written by Oscar Velarde, starring Edna Mira Raia & Jamin Jollo. Features the soundscapes of the Cincinnati Laptop Orchestra, recorded live at the Mockbee in Cincinnati circa 2004.
2022/2006 F. Art Jan. 6 - Available on: Apple Music Spotify Tidal Amazon Napster Deezer iHeart Radio Robot dragon speech from a performance piece performed at the Contemporary Arts Center of Cincinnati on January 6, 2006, remixed into some weird shit. Enjoy. Try the Spotify… … Continue reading →