hot chris 1995 Arizona Hippies - A nostalgic dump. Snap view into the life of several Midwestern potheads tooling around Phoenix and Arizona in 1995. Shot on various 35mm film, aged stressed with an HP scanner. 1995 Arizona Hippies
Karmann 1995 Arizona Skies - Haphazard photos of desert Skies in Arizona near the Superstition Mountains and the Grand Canyon in the mid 1990s. Shot on a Minolta with 35mm film and age-stressed with an HP scanner. 1995 Arizona Skies
Curled Naked Roesing 1995 Early Coffee, Late Coffee - Early Coffee, Late Coffee There was a murder at the coffee house, So they buried him in brown beans, And everyone was screaming for a mouse, To come around passing out caffeine, With all the victims guilty and all the Continue reading →
Hopi Old 1995 Hopi Puppy - This was a dog once, long dead, not forgotten yet. Lab-chow mix. Not that smart, totally loyal, happy, and sweet. Never barked. Shot on various film, age stressed with an HP Deskjet F2120. 1995 Hopi Puppy
New Orleans after Katrina 1995 Hot With Blemishes in May - Hot with Blemishes in May I believe that I misunderstood the question, Reversal. Speak of the devil, Listen of the God, the motion of Mass. I am surrounded by nothing, but the time is now short. Infinity so quick. I Continue reading →
Modem Crete 1995 Nostalgias - A nostalgic dump. Snap view into the life of several Midwestern potheads tooling around Kentucky in 1995. Shot on various 35mm film, aged stressed with an Nikon D5100. 1995 Nostalgias
Banana Slug 1995 Praise - Praise A big, fat, poem With big, fat, adjectives Flew in with buttered turkey wings, And sat on my head. Look at the form! The meter and the prose! It could only be pleasing, To them this and those, Choking Continue reading →
John Quinn 1995 The Lost Recordings of John Quinn - Available on: Apple Music Spotify Tidal Amazon Napster Deezer iHeart Radio   Recorded in a closet in Mesa Arizona in 1994 by teenagers Lesniak and Roesing Ape. Enjoy. Try the Spotify…  
Attack Sky 1995 The Siege - Siege, the Where is the punch line? Where am I? On a ball of dirt? Floating in the sky? WE ARE SURROUNDED. The clouds have us under siege. As of yet, we do not know why, But still, they let Continue reading →
Guilt Pumpkin 1995 Updating My Poop - Updating my poop   I blink when I think of it. It seems that it should have been cold cause I could see so many stars. Not that I ever paid attention to stars, mind you. Anything I see with Continue reading →
Weed Bud 1996 A Typical Sentimental Poem, Written at the International House of Pancakes. - A typical sentimental Poem, written at the International House of Pancakes. Pillows, Clouds, Feathers, Comfortable, Relaxing, To sleep, Sleep inside of me, I will be the womb, Sleep inside of me, I will be mother, I am peace, I am Continue reading →
Shitty beginnings 1996 Choice - Choice We visit the item. We visit the machine. The lackey savant. The mechanical being. Reference and file. The subject and its slot. Our pace and our function. It’s blue, it’s gray, it’s a box. Package personality. (male) Mail order Continue reading →
SERAPHIMS 1996 Guest Check - Guest Check Fliscshell nicks Log, Tumbler freekdom, Knotted frog of twisted, Eye of Doggeral Bastard Names and pumpernickel, pipe dreams and pleasantly, Finished larks, and red, Herring understatements, Feeding off the this’s and that’s, And dexterities weak hold. Hark, yonder Continue reading →
Space Gun Drawing 1996 More Cheap Angst - More cheap angst No great emotions, no great thoughts. A few scattered devotions, lying about with the records I’ve bought. And this generation, to define what it is, And this nation going to the pits, I will follow the generation’s Continue reading →
Coffee Creamer open on picnic blanket 1996 Oliver Cream - Available on: iTunes Spotify   For the die hard who wants to know what I was up to before I lost my mind and found my noise. With Jeremy Lesniak, Travis Jouette, and Kevin Code. Enjoy? Flash player not working? Continue reading →
oliver cream besides 1996 Oliver Cream B-Sides - Available on: Apple Music Spotify Tidal Amazon Deezer iHeart Radio   Excellent example of 1990s poor teenage hippy alt-rocker 4-track syndrome. Enjoy. Try the Spotify…  
cicada psychedelic 1996 On Town and Bar - On Town and Bar sexy stinky the rattle of rubber bones sashay, she’s winking Rembrandt could not improve upon those legs Powerless, the old man is on a boy’s whim. The whiskey drinks the man Under the table, Ah, but Continue reading →
Projectors in tin foil room 1996 SEE! - SEE! Salvation is a one handed creature?! The mystery remains whether ‘tis right or left! It functions easily? It fits into your pocket!? Salvation is cheap? It fits in the palm of your hand! Advertise Salvation?! Laying out our plan. Continue reading →
Separ Ape 1996 Separ Ape Roesing Ated - Available on: Apple Music Spotify Tidal Amazon Deezer iHeart Radio   The first Roesing Ape album, in 2-side tape format as it was meant to be experienced. Improvisational 4-track over-dubs using a guitar, a casio, and a cheap delay pedal. Continue reading →
Cat on Kitsch Couch 1996 The Argument - The Argument Underline your anger De-emphasize the cause Someone is stuttering to glory In this they are cleaning out their mouth Ferocity sizzles as it lingers Stretching your tongue down to the ground It has taken to new heights the Continue reading →
separated 1996 The Wizard & the King Excerpt - One particular time that they took these potions it happened to be the waning time of the year, and the moon had nearly finished taking off her black clothes. The trees had dressed in their most extravagant funeral garb, and Continue reading →
1996 Tic Tac Toe - A college play, absurdist, Artaudian, and Beckettish, informed by the idiocy of relationships. Starring M. Barnes, M. Chamberlain, M. Hayberry, Roesing Ape, and a special performance by Holly Price. Music by Roesing Ape. Presented at Northern Kentucky University’s Theatre Department. Continue reading →
Ape Gremlin 1997 A Below the Conscience Orchestration - A below the conscience orchestration Interested thinger Gongs Goings on around Papery   Gentle folk robber’s buttercup nightmare babe (eat ree nuts) Give me a roadblock Give me a dark chasm of thought And I will untie your shoe I Continue reading →
Abstract Monster with yellow eyes 1997 Birth Tape - Available on: iTunes Spotify Amazon   Compilation of songs I wrote for various bands I was in during the 1990’s including: Geusebox, Oliver Cream, and The Mandelbrot Set, as well as the very first forays into multi-track improvisational noise. Everything Continue reading →
bring it on 1997 Bring it On! - Available on: Apple Music Spotify Tidal Amazon Deezer iHeart Radio   Excellent example of 1990s poor early 20s hippy alt-rocker 4-track syndrome with friends. Enjoy. Try the Spotify…  
Shitty beginnings 1997 Complete Amazement - My god your deodorant is fascinating. I am perplexed by its depth. Its scent makes the most perfect sense (olf.). Its sublime wit puts a bulge in my pants. All women are becoming green. All men are becoming brown. This Continue reading →
Shitty beginnings 1997 Curse - curse I am weak I may not move a muscle For each muscle speaks Nervous, and I am needy I am a freak Can’t see, where am I bleeding There is no punctuation In what I am saying There is Continue reading →
Three Red Squares and an Orange 1997 Footage - Collection of b-roll for a radio-television class project on the campus of Northern Kentucky University in 1997. Turned into a seizure inducing piece of noise video. Features a monologue on summation, a monologue from an Edward Albee play, a review Continue reading →
Relaxing on the Main 1997 LSD in Mesa Arizona - LSD in Mesa, Arizona Eggs across the cement And Legs and feet in proper placement Adds Blatant yolk too toe harassment Nonsense. Ridiculous nonsense. Creatively ridiculous nonsense though. Shuffle and walk Shuffle and walk Tinker in thought Shuffle a lot Continue reading →
Buy 1997 More fucking teen angst, god… - More fucking teen angst, god. I coast into the flaring nostrils of a wild German horse, only to find my mother’s crutch, my sister’s blush, and my brother’s bald spot. Nevermind. Insert: Ode to an uphill struggle; I have nothing Continue reading →
Roesing plays siren with angels 1997 Return of Messiah Excerpt - Chapter dfhgospgjiks45+vgn   And so there was a dead man in the bathroom at the grocery store. Breakfast of whole wheat bread, an entire loaf, a raw potato and an orange. Cleanliness is next to godliness, and not every supermarket Continue reading →
Complacency Brochure 1997 Song - Song Service with a smile Follow the parade Is everybody happy? I’m not afraid To make everybody happy I will clap my hands gently in your ear, To remind you of your tribes And we will all wear crafted medallions Continue reading →
Cat on Kitsch Couch 1997 Talk. - Talk. Consume conversation Eating up the words Licking off your fingers The sticky nouns and verbs Swan dive into conjecture Back flip on the innuendo Dancing with our lectures Making silly putty of the words Put your finger on your Continue reading →
redepressed 1997 The Ape Re-Depressed (58 Minutes of Ohio Torture) - Available on: Apple Music Spotify Tidal Amazon Napster Deezer iHeart Radio   Straight outta the 90s two-track tape recording of a live set. Enjoy. Try the Spotify…  
Neon Vavoom Sign upside down 1997 The Myriad of Symptoms - The Myriad of Symptoms As I attempt to define the lack of purpose and define the function of the human form I come to an understanding of the advertisement, its affection always close and always warm. When do-gooders talk about Continue reading →
Dark Water 1997 This Pissed Her Off - This pissed her off young restless idiots fishing for souls along the unnamed avenues in the unnamed city in the unnamed country with the blinding lights that make you squint. Whether or not to do drugs. And if so, what Continue reading →
Uncanny X-They 1997 Uncanny X-They - Available on: Apple Music Spotify Tidal Amazon Deezer iHeart Radio   Excellent example of 1990s poor early 20s hippy alt-rocker 4-track syndrome with friends – the sequel. Enjoy. Try the Spotify…  
Roesing Ape Fell to His Death 1997 Waxing Pot Poetic - Waxing pot poetic I wanna quit smoking meat. Because everyone should be skinny. And understanding of me. Everybody should do the same thing. So I can use less jokes. Would you like to buy my house. I forgot that I Continue reading →
Laptop in Dark 1997 You… - You….   Here are the directions to get here if you are Superman. You glide over the city at dusk, the incandescent bronze street lamps making love to the hazy polluted blue sky below you. Your sense of direction, as Continue reading →
Junk in Bisby Arizona 1997 Youth Asks - people I’ve had sex with those occasional occupations those half hazard penetrations those that defy explanation I’ve run into some recently They do not seem to see me Exchange half-hearted glances Little emotional dances Apparently things change It seems things Continue reading →
Space Gun Drawing 1998 Albutress - Available on: iTunes Amazon Spotify   One of the first full noise albums. It’s possible that some of it is very cool, some of it might be annoying. Recorded on a two track in a basement in Kentucky. Flash player Continue reading →
Uncensored Bootleg 1998 An Uncensored Bootleg of Funk - Available on: iTunes Spotify Napster Deezer   Early pre-millennium multi-track noise. Enjoy. Flash player not working? Try the Spotify…
Sleeping Cat on Couch with banjo 1998 Another Boring Couch Seshin - Another boring couch seshin Plant dirt yellow meter line window coffee couch ashtray concrete leaf wooden chair imprints garbage magazine division of sanitation paint blue cookie pretzel shutter shudder stain butter kelp kiwi curtains clutter stable stand uptown rental properties Continue reading →
Yellow moon 1998 At This Point - At this point At this point I would like to remind the reader that they too will die. And that I have no room. And that maybe if they die, I might get myself a little more rrrrrrooom. And deeper, Continue reading →
Roesing Ape in Horrible Make Up 1998 Bad at Make Up - Seriously I got a D in that class. Here is my humiliation, shot on a Minolta 35mm film camera, and age stressed with a Nikon D5100. 1998 Bad at Make Up
Roesing Ape Fell to His Death 1998 Death - Death Time is sleeping A worthless rest Keeping awake The hand feels weak The head is heavy The pillow speaks Tells tales of mumble Tells tales of stutter Slipping ideal under Finding solace boring Eat fluff is chewy A tongue Continue reading →
Jameson Neat Coffee Back 1998 Everything is About Me - Everything is about me I’ve got lots of problems see, No big discipline, no big speak, Hollow and weak freak, Which cleans my mouth, scars my face, Up in the attic sub-conscience waits, Free free free freak, I stand for Continue reading →
Misanthropic Power Point Presentation 1998 Filler - Filler Tasteless flick of the paranoid boxer folds in half beside the bed of the hunted dog understanding two hands open fist offer a saltine cracker to the starving glass of water behind behind emotion is anger god is not Continue reading →
Ape Gremlin 1998 Fuck Poetry - I fucking hate poetry Fuck fucking this poetry Absolute crap bullshit whining Vitriol filth mind mining weak reflections on a bland life Of stupidity as if the poet was special, As if this shit was a fucking art like Knives, Continue reading →
fuck you die it's not my fault 1998 Fuck You Die It’s Not My Fault - Available on: iTunes Spotify Amazon Napster   Noise. Electronics breaking. Old synths abused. Typical. Enjoy? Flash player not working? Try the Spotify…
Roesing plays siren with angels 1998 Merlin with Cricket - Available on: iTunes Spotify   A 20 minute improvisational guitar solo over a live recording of nighttime June crickets and tree frogs in the Ohio river valley. Smoke a bowl and enjoy. Flash player not working? Try the Spotify…
Yellow moon 1998 Newtext - New text. February 28th, 1998. New word processor. Brand new, piece of shit right out of the box. Prints in ten different colors all derived from only two shades of shit brown. I will pour into it the little pink Continue reading →
Complacency Brochure 1998 Newtext Excerpt - Newtext New text. February 28th, 1998. New word processor. Brand new, piece of shit right out of the box. Prints in ten different colors all derived from only two shades of shit brown. I will pour into it the little Continue reading →
Neon Vavoom Sign upside down 1998 Noodles & Dog - Available on: iTunes Spotify   The album that represents my time of transition from alternative rock song bands to noise. There’s some songs, some jazz, some noise. Try the Spotify…
Infinite Tree Leaves 1998 NT Pupils - NT Pupils What about the near eloquence of the fugitive behind the figure she asked and then I smacked her pupils with mouth tears and tore off her clothes with words. As if I wanted to fuck her. As if Continue reading →
Lonely Child with Stuffed Animals 1998 Olé Fashioned - Available on: Amazon iTunes Spotify   First forays into multitrack and live improvisational noise electronics… Some of it is cool. Flash player not working? Try the Spotify…
Young Ape with all his Friends 1998 Olé Fashioned Full Album - Available on: Amazon iTunes Spotify Or just watch it on youtube below:   Initial forays into Crap Wave and Noise Music. There’s some real crap in here, there’s also some of the coolest sounds ever – complete lack of knowledge Continue reading →
Sepia Clouds and Moon and Shit 1998 Peace - peace. I love you Fuck you I love you Fuck you I love you Fuck you I love you Fuck you I love you Fuck you I love you Fuck you I love you Fuck you I love you Fuck Continue reading →
Shitty beginnings 1998 Poop Poop - Poop Poop poop in your head poop in your butter poop in your soul poop behind the uptake poop in matrimony to dish soap poop in forward motion poop on the ashtray of godd poop around the corners in synchronization Continue reading →
Projectors in tin foil room 1998 Prester John - Prester John… Here there is giggling,      The expounding of a plot,           Will you make some mistake and point to me?                Open our selves to being blocked? Continue reading →
separated 1998 Separated - Available on: Spotify iTunes Amazon   The first Roesing Ape album. Improvisational 4-track over-dubs using a guitar, a casio, and a cheap delay pedal. Flash player not working? Try the Spotify…
slate first reel 1998 Slate First Reel - Available on: Apple Music Spotify Tidal Amazon Napster Deezer iHeart Radio   Exploratory improvisational two-track tape recording with Holly Price in the late 90s. Cover art is a blurred detail of a Holly Price piece. Enjoy. Try the Spotify…  
Archie the Janitor 1998 Sudsy’s Portraits pt. 1 - Portraits of the people of Sudsy Malone’s Laundromat and Bar in Cincinnati Ohio. Shot on a Minolta 35mm film camera and age stressed with a Nikon D5100. 1998 Sudsy's Portraits pt. 1
Projectors in tin foil room 1998 Tic Tac Toe Excerpt - Game Four X: You give me less than I give you. O: Is it necessary that we give each other the same amount? X: No. But it should be compulsory. O: Maybe you’re just not receiving what I’m giving you. Continue reading →
Neon Vavoom Sign upside down 1998 Tired - Tired, tired, world, go to sleep, you’re just making it harder on yourself. Bouncing fucking bubbles I swear to god. Isolated interpretations of isolated experience. Bouncing up against other isolated interpretations of isolated experience. Sometimes quite rapidly. Experiencing, in isolation, Continue reading →
Roesing Ape Fell to His Death 1998 Write a Poem - Write a Poem Write a poem Write a poem with words Write a poem with words that people can relate to Write a heartfelt poem with lucid, bordering on dubious language Write a poem with an appealing wit and intellect Continue reading →
Roesing plays siren with angels 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 →
Wires and Keyboard 1999 “Girl Guest” - Available on: Amazon iTunes Spotify   Live rock-noise jams with various female musicians from the Cincinnati area in 1999. You probably won’t like it. Flash player not working? Try the Spotify…
Cat on Kitsch Couch 1999 Answer to the Question - Answer to the question Answer to the question of thoroughfare. Click. America loves her sense of growth. And what. Stale tables beneath my typed massages, and I’m looking out the window, no, door, and there presented to me in that Continue reading →
locust 1999 Answer to the Question Excerpt - Answer to the question A & B: Answer to the question of thoroughfare. Click. America loves her sense of growth. And what. Stale tables beneath my typed massages, and I’m looking out the window, no, door, and there presented to Continue reading →
Rebirth 1999 Draws - A long ago foray into manual visual art. Photographed with a Minolta 35mm and scanned in. 1999 Draws
Sad Family 1999 Father’s Day - Father’s Day Where the man beats his child, The child will eventually beat the man. Where the man works hard and long, The child will relax and be at ease. Where the man is ignorant and callous, The child will Continue reading →
Pink weird Mush 1999 Forget Mother - Available on: iTunes Spotify   Early noise experimentation, live tracks and improvised overdub, strangely prophetic lyrics ranted randomly, etc. Enjoy. Flash player not working? Try the Spotify…
Gougert Tour 1999 Gougert Tour - Available on: iTunes Spotify Amazon Napster Deezer   Early pre-millennium multi-track noise, and the gayest picture of me ever taken. Enjoy.   Flash player not working? Try the Spotify…  
His Garbage 1999 His Garbage - Available on: iTunes Spotify Amazon Napster Deezer   Noise explorations of the 1999 kind. Enjoy?   Flash player not working? Try the Spotify…  
I Should Decide 1999 I Should Decide - Available on: iTunes Spotify Amazon Napster   Weird multi-tracked song attempt in the midst of a neuronal noise breakdown in a young mind. Enjoy?   Flash player not working? Try the Spotify…  
Misanthropic Power Point Presentation 1999 Important Tax Information - Important tax Information: My grip it slips like no other, like flowers on an infants lips, my grip it slips, I come to claim my reward. My cigarette seems bothered while on an infants lips, I come I come to Continue reading →
what blurry space monster 1999 Jiminy Crickets - Jiminy Crickets Something comes from my mouth, It seems to have an especial purpose, It’s got a mean look in its eye, Get your ears out of town, Speaking in tongues… My tongue is burning… My tongue has holes in Continue reading →
Strange CGI Blue Face 1999 No Fun Machine - Available on: iTunes Spotify   Beautiful, glorious noise led by a brave 1974 Baldwin Fun Machine. The unofficial sound track for The Last Jedi. Maybe. Lesniak on drums. Flash player not working? Try the Spotify…
Weird Grass Field 1999 Not More Girl Guests - Available on: iTunes Spotify Amazon Napster   Noise jammy jams with men and women in a shotgun apartment in Cincinnati Ohio in 1999 with purple plush and brown shag carpet, an orange fireplace and an angry cat. Enjoy?   Flash Continue reading →
Purpose Pustule 1999 Purpose Pustule - 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…  
Rit Dye Bath 1999 Riddle Visits - Photos of some of the weird shit and people who showed up on Riddle Road in Cincinnati Ohio. Shot on a Minolta 35mm film camera, age stressed with a Nikon D5100. 1999 Riddle Visits
Roesing Ape in Bubble Wrap 1999 Roesing Ape - Available on: Spotify iTunes Amazon   The self-titled album. Because everyone needs one. Ambient electronic, spoken word and noise. Also some stuff that’s really annoying and some stuff that will make you think your speakers are broken. Classic Roesing Ape. Continue reading →
Infinite Tree Leaves 1999 Sergio Haladyna’s Sweet Exile - Film written and directed by Sergio Haladyna (Gonzales), articulating post-utopian anarchic existential dread in the face of global capitalism fed by colonial imperialistic racist roots.
Underground art show band 1999 Smacke! - Smacke! by Roesing Ape Available on: Amazon Spotify Initial forays into Crap Wave and free-form improvisation. Often with the likes of Jeremy Lesniak (now of Culture Queer) and S. Durm (now a reclusive tattoo artist and graphic novelist). Mostly recorded Continue reading →
Underground art show band 1999 Smacke! Full Album - Available on: Amazon Spotify Or just watch it on youtube below   Initial forays into Crap Wave and free-form improvisation. Often with the likes of Jeremy Lesniak (now of Culture Queer) and S. Durm (now a reclusive tattoo artist and Continue reading →
Sub Millennium line art 1999 Submillenium - Available on: iTunes Spotify Amazon Napster   Analog synth jams, obnoxious performance art soundtracks, and random noise recorded in a shotgun apartment in Cincinnati Ohio in 1999 with purple plush and brown shag carpet, an orange fireplace and an angry Continue reading →
Three Red Squares and an Orange 1999 Thank You - Thank You Measurements, the destruction, distinction of my mind, And thank you most of all, Mr. Television, for the gift of an enemy. Thank you Mr. Television for fucking my asshole raw with your limp dick ideologies and warping my Continue reading →
Some Fire 1999 The Exampled Preached - The Exampled Preached I must say nothing with words, Only with movement will I speak, I will be so subtle that you will not notice, I will be ordinary implicit & implied, But with every true movement, day or night, Continue reading →
space_body_holly 1999 The Liminal Zone - Speech from the performance piece, The Liminal Zone, first performed at the Southgate house in Newport Kentucky, New Year’s Eve 1999, with Holly Price and Mike Dimaria Good evening ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to a visual discussion of the Liminal Continue reading →
Roesing Silhouette with Mic 1999 The Rub - Rub All the quiet people, they begin to speak up Release their attention, express their opinion Timing it to reveal, they are the real majority They are the real Mc’Coy, he’s not saying anything He keeps it all in, no Continue reading →
titania 1999 Titania Avenged - Available on: iTunes Spotify Amazon Napster Deezer   Very early Roesing Ape. Its weird. Enjoy.   Flash player not working? Try the Spotify…  
Shitty beginnings 1999 Useless Crap; Poems & Thoughts 1995 to 1999 - Misanthropic fever dreams. Probably won’t change your life. Might make you laugh, smile, or commiserate. Best read out loud on the toilet. Available in digital format and paperback.
Roesing Ape drinking wine and scoffing 1999 Women & Acne - Available on: iTunes Spotify Amazon   More forays into experimental noise. Mostly recorded on 2 track digital and tape, live, on shag carpet, next to an orange fireplace and an angry cat.   Flash player not working? Try the Spotify… Continue reading →
Women and Acne 1999 Women & Acne Full Album - More forays into experimental noise. Mostly recorded on 2 track digital and tape, live, on shag carpet, next to an orange fireplace and an angry cat. 01 Circling You 02 J+C Crunch 03 Buzzzz oh d 04 Beep da 05 Continue reading →
10110111 2000 1011011 - Available on: iTunes Spotify Amazon Napster Deezer   Aggressive noise. No rules, no beats, no recording standards. Enjoy?   Flash player not working? Try the Spotify…  
Art 2000 2000 2000 Art - Available on: iTunes Spotify Amazon Napster Deezer   Live noise for dance and performance from the year 2000. The videos for these tracks are here somewhere. Probably boring. Enjoy. Yeah the flash player doesn’t work… Try the Spotify…
Clouds and Sun and Shit 2000 A.I. - Ai? I kiss the moon, And he says, “Stop kissing me you fucking cock, I’m just a rock”.   So I say, “heh”. “I don’t care what the frag you are a star? A white walled tire? The negative of Continue reading →
Spencer BUZZSHOW 2000 BUZZSHOW - Roesing Ape, Burning Star Core, Tired Glue, Luther the Geek, Dark Audio – it devolved into a universal jam and we took over that kewl little Buzz Coffe shop in Cincinnati Ohio. You can listen to it here. 2000 BUZZSHOW
Light Bulb up close 2000 Confession - Father, it’s been four hundred and fifty seven years since my last confession. I’ve sinned much. I’ve masturbated countless times and on occasion to images so perverted, disgusting, and horrible that they are unmentionable. I’ve been envious, jealous, and mean Continue reading →
Another Guilt Pumpkin 2000 Excerpt 17 FLotFotL - OK so let me thoroughly describe what it’s like to make love to someone whom one detests. They come over and while they’re in transit and you know they’re coming you tell yourself over and over again ‘I will not Continue reading →
SERAPHIMS 2000 First Annual Regional Error Worship Conference - Set up in Old St. George Cathedral in Cincinnati Ohio for the First Annual Regional Error Worship Conference. Shot on a Minolta 35mm film camera. 2000 First Annual Regional Error Worship Conference
SERAPHIMS 2000 First Annual Regional Error Worship Conference - Side view, just set-ups and intermissions of Roesing Ape performing, with bits of Culture Queer, Free Dance Music and Iovae set up. Held at Old St. George in Cincinnati Ohio. See photo gallery here
SERAPHIMS 2000 First Error Worship Conference Live - Available on: Amazon Spotify iTunes   Live sets during the First Annual Regional Error Worship Conference in Cincinnati Ohio at Old St. George’s Cathedral. Minimalist and ambient sets – all reverb you hear is the echo of the cathedral architecture. Continue reading →
Jameson Neat Coffee Back 2000 HDT (Cincinnati) - Cincinnati would be more exciting if it was just a little bit warmer. It has the proper humidity for being a swanky town, it has the right sort of architecture. Red brick row houses in decrepit condition built on hills Continue reading →
Kentucky Live 2000 Holly & Roesing Dance Noise - One of the first Roesing Ape pieces, in a warehouse in Cincinnati, improvisational noise and dance with Roesing Ape & Holly Price.    
Intro to Oregon 2000 Introduction to Oregon - First visit to Oregon in the year 2000, with Lesniak. Shot on a 35mm Minolta film camera, age stressed with a Nikon D5100. 2000 Introduction to Oregon
Sky Fish 2000 Journey to Fatlantis - Erstwhile poorly focused vacation photos from the cheese-ball vomitorium that is the Atlantis resort in the Bahamas circa the year 2000. The Bahamas, jewel crusted crust and seamy poverty oppressed gooey center. Shot on a one use 35mm film camera, Continue reading →
Light Bulb up close 2000 Live - Available on: Spotify iTunes Amazon   Various live noise gigs from the year 2000. Strap in it’s a rough ride. Flash player not working? Try the Spotify…
Underground art show band 2000 Live at Southgate with Dance - Improv noise with guest players Lesniak & John Rich, with interpretive dance by Lauren Brown, who seemed to be able to dance to anything we threw at her. Live on the second floor of the Southgate House in Newport Kentucky, Continue reading →
Neon Vavoom Sign upside down 2000 Masonic Lodge Covington Kentucky - On the 55th anniversary of the first atomic bomb explosion, July 16 2000, I inserted a microphone into a woman’s vagina on stage to sample her heartbeat and play live noise with it in a former Masonic lodge in Covington Continue reading →
Neon Vavoom Sign upside down 2000 Masonic Lodge Full Footage - On the 55th anniversary of the first atomic bomb explosion, July 16 2000, I inserted a microphone into a woman’s vagina on stage to sample her heartbeat and play live noise with it in a former Masonic lodge in Covington Continue reading →
Roesing and Rich on stage Blurry 2000 Modem Speak Ensemble - Live performance of high pitched noise-jazz at the Southgate House in Newport Kentucky, with John Rich. Shot on a Minolta 35mm film camera. 2000 Modem Speak Ensemble
Blurry projected face 2000 Moma - Available on: iTunes Spotify   Early live noise and multitracking fun. You probably won’t like most of it, but there are some gems… Flash player not working? Try the Spotify…
Dancer in Bed 2000 Not My Type - Maybe the thick of the fog will suffuse with our transparent solid knob of narcissism. Maybe our reflection will vomit flies and scraps of meat into our face. Maybe our flatulence will become a turtle, and outlive our outlandish cooking. Continue reading →
Guilt Pumpkin 2000 Pimples - You know pimples are really very powerful signals, signs, and omens. The process by which they operate from mark to swelling to explosion-release and scar is so reminiscent of action movies, orgasms, and pop songs. I get them where they Continue reading →
Video Noise 2000 Roesing/Lesniak/Durm Live at Southgate - Live noise set in the 2nd floor Parlor of the Historic Southgate House in Newport Kentucky. Cameos by Wit, Holly Price, Bevington, Serenity, some others. Video by Wit.
Young Bodies marching 2000 Southgate w/ Holly Price - Audience participation in live improvisational music and dance. Live at the Southgate House in Newport Kentucky. Dancer: Holly Price. Also some VirtualDub glitching at the end for fun.
Roesing plays siren with angels 2000 Southgate w/ Zog - Live at the Southgate House in Newport Kentucky, Roesing Ape & Zog. Intense noise. Also, there was a capture glitch with VirtualDub that causes the video to freak a little bit and speed up dramatically as time goes on. I Continue reading →
Multiple Color Gradients 2000 The Buzz Show - Available on: Spotify iTunes Amazon   The noise show of the millennium at the Buzz Coffee Shop in Cincinnati Ohio. It turned into an hour long free for all with Roesing Ape, Tired Glue, Dark Audio, Luther the Geek and Continue reading →
Roesing Ape Fell to His Death 2000 The Sadness of Eating Grapes - Whatever the fuck you make me to say. I am the insidious figment of your imagination. I am pepsi cola, you are coca cola, everything else is blood. Everything else is blood. You are completely full of shit. Suck my Continue reading →
Oh Look Me Coffee 2000 The Understatements - The Understatements I get into your lisp Forget what you said Understatement of the year Speaking water, hearing bread In the game of the gaze We speak not of defecation We must celebrate We defend so recklessly She is the Continue reading →
Doug Elkins Glam Shot 2000 Trying to Meat a Girl - Trying to meat a girl Brink, boredom from the look The look from the boredom, a wink Inquire, thrown out the words Hit the floor and wait, perspire Sick, embattled belabored Over and over again, slow Failure, has thou eaten Continue reading →
Web Voices 2000 Web Voices - Available on: iTunes Spotify Amazon Napster   Robot voice chattering over midi-generated Tchaikovsky. Enjoy? Flash player not working? Try the Spotify…
Art Damage Tape Cassette 2000 Witt Goes to a Chalk Show - From the Wy Tape Archives: Allen Michael “Witt” Schmitz meanders around the Masonic Lodge in Covington Kentucky during the best rock band no one discovered Chalk’s performance, which immediately preceded a roesing ape performance. Co-starring Serenity B.  
Young Bodies marching 2000 Young Bodies - Available on: iTunes Amazon Spotify   I got banned from the r/WTF subreddit for the title of this album. Noise jams and electronica. You might like a little of it. Flash player not working? Try the Spotify…
Young Bodies marching 2000 Young Bodies Full Album - Some noise jams, some minimalist nature and machine sounds, etc. Recorded on 2 track tape and PC on shag carpet in the year 2000. The title of the link got me banned from reddit/r/wtf for some reason. iTunes Amazon Spotify Continue reading →
Ultraviolet Invisible Ink Butterfly 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 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…
Fire Monster Befriends small Elephant 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 →
Projected Holly Face on Holly 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 →
Beltane Advertisement 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 →
Some Fire 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 →
Complacency Brochure 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 →
Mole Lady Portrait 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.
Misanthropic Power Point Presentation 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 →
Projected Holly Face on Holly 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
Fuck Me Variations 1 & 2 2001 Fucks Me Variations 1 and 2 - Fucks Me Variations 1 & 2 by Roesing Ape Available on: iTunes Spotify Amazon 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 Continue reading →
FM Variations 3 & 4 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 →
FM 5 and 6 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 →
Gordy Roesing Price 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…  
Poo Shoe 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
Cat on Kitsch Couch 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 →
Kentucky Live 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…  
locust 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.
Neon Vavoom Sign upside down 2001 Live at the Southgate House - Live noise at the historic no longer extant Newport Kentucky Southgate House. Taped by Wit.
Ape Gremlin 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.
Underground art show band 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 →
Yes Selfie 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 →
Sad Family 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 →
Projected Holly Face on Holly 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 →
Red Dragonfly 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 →
Roesing Silhouette with Mic 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 →
Projected Holly Face on Holly 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 →
Roesing Ape Fell to His Death 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 →
what blurry space monster 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 →
Nerd Pants 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…
Projected Holly Face on Holly 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 →
Sanctum to Drones 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…  
Laptop in Dark 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.
The Electric Company 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 →
separated 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.  
Jameson Neat Coffee Back 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 →
Zog & Roe Art Damage Birthday Show 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 →
Art Damage Tape Cassette 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
Fire Monster Befriends small Elephant 2001/2004/2005/2006 Art Damage Errata pt. 2 - Art Damage Inc. graphics, logos, miscellaneous, and fliers from 2001-2006. 2001/2004/2005/2006 Art Damage Errata pt. 2
rose goat 2001/2004/2005/2006 Art Damage Errata pt. 3 - Art Damage Inc. graphics, logos, miscellaneous, and fliers from 2001-2006. 2006 Art Damage Errata
Blurry Yoga Dancers 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 →
Dark Water 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 →
Small Dinosaur on USB Charger 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…
locust 2002 Baseball Caps & White T-Shirts with Crap on Them (a Monologue) - Baseball Caps & White T-Shirts with Crap on Them (a Monologue) (A man comes on stage with a guitar, walks to the microphone, and begins to play. Suddenly he stops.) Man: How could you all be so tasteless, so trite? Continue reading →
Belgian Grave Water 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
House Shan Eats 2002 Burning Star Core Southgate Halloween - Live at the Southgate House Ballroom in Newport Kentucky, Halloween 2002. Enjoy.
Cincy Resist 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
Clouds and Sun and Shit 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 →
Death Beam Death Beam 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…  
Mole Lady Portrait 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.
Blurry Coffee Shop 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 →
Death Beam Mini Door 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.
Spencer, Ron and Roesing 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.
Death Beam Death Beam 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.
Intro to Oregon 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.
Rit Dye Bath 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?
Spencer, Ron and Roesing 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 →
2006 2002 Death Beam Practice 3 - The Cincinnati noise super-group Death Beam: Roesing Ape, C. Spencer Yeh, and Ron Orovitz.
Spencer, Ron and Roesing 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…  
Projectors in tin foil room 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 →
fart 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 →
CGI woman floats in sea with tree 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 →
Projected Holly Face on Holly 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.
rose goat 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…  
Holly Price Art 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
Roesing Interviews a Washing Machine 2002 Live @ The Southgate House - Live set noise. Taped by Wit.
Roesing on laptop 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.  
Lesniak & Roesing 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 →
Lost Parlour 2002 Lost Parlour Set - Snapshot of a live noise set in the Southgate House upper parlour. First time integrating banjo into noise. Enjoy.
ludique fuzzy 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…
Music for Ms. Morgan 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.
Miscmidsum 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…  
Shitty beginnings 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 →
Roesing Interviews a Washing Machine 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…
Art On Sale 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 →
locust 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 →
taint of San Francisco Close up 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 →
Roesing Yeh 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 →
Roesing Toe 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 →
Rit Dye Bath 2002 Sick Hour Southgate Halloween - Live in the ballroom at the Southgate House in Newport Kentucky.
Southgate Live 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…  
Stereo oriented Noise 2002 Stereo Oriented - Available on: iTunes Spotify   Synth and computer improv. Intense stoner heavy. Flash player not working? Try the Spotify…
separated 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 →
Cat on Bookshelf 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 →
Projectors in tin foil room 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 →
Some Fire 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 →
Misanthropic Power Point Presentation 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 →
what blurry space monster 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 →
A Beautiful Woman 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 →
Silvia's Hand 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 →
Minh and Tere 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 →
Shopping Cart Puddle 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 →
Weird possibly vagina face 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 →
Snail on Window in France 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 →
Intro to Oregon 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 →
Relaxing on the Main 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 →
Nerd Pants 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 →
Death Beam Mini Door 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 →
A Beautiful Woman 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 →
Nosing a fish 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 →
Banana Slug 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 →
Yes Selfie 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 →
Grand Canyon Sunset 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 →
View from pele 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 →
titania 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 →
Field of Tree trunks 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 →
Snail on Window in France 2003 A Beautiful Woman Excerpt – Coffeeshop Dream Ants - The creek had ended, or rather it began and Job had come to that point, roughly, for there was no start so much as an area of the hill which must have underground springs. He knew little of such things. Continue reading →
Hopi Old 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 →
Dark Water 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 →
Hurtful Stories 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 →
Ping Pong Paddle, cigarette, sunglasses 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 →
Field of Tree trunks 2003 A Beautiful Woman Excerpt – If Thy Tongue Offend Thee - And Job opens his eyes to the sun and it all fades back into a misty dim, something on the tip of his tongue and receding quietly as if it was a tired and satiated vampire at the commencement of Continue reading →
Banana Slug 2003 A Beautiful Woman Excerpt – Shit More than You Eat - Job was moving in the earth, swimming through grimy black dirt and rocks and roots, letting it flow into his mouth and out of his ass in one fluid movement. As if Job himself were earth, mud, and stones. And Continue reading →
Ape & Kitty 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 →
Holly Price Art 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 →
Solar Eclipse with Plane 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 →
3D sludge man 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 →
California Scraps 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 →
Only Roesing Ape brings you 1980s cereal commercials & porn in a tin foil room 2003 Album V - Available on: Spotify iTunes
Rando Bay 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.
Jameson Neat Coffee Back 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 →
Complacency Brochure 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 →
Art Damage Parade 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
Title with cool lines 2003 Computer Music - Available on: Spotify iTunes Amazon   Experiments in computer generated anti-edm. Enjoy. Flash player not working? Try the Spotify…
Death Beam Death Beam 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 →
Prax 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…  
What is it like to be a bat 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…  
WXXX News Time Warp 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 →
Guilt Pumpkin 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 →
Roesing Silhouette with Mic 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 →
Fart Poopy Pants 2003 FArt - Available on: iTunes Spotify Napster Deezer   Words with noise, artsy-like. Enjoy.   Flash player not working? Try the Spotify…  
Hurtful Stories 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…
Wave Particle Duality Debunked 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 →
Gabe presents a toy drum kit 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
Painted Fingers Cigarette Bug Bites 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
Curled Naked Roesing 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 →
Music for Ms. Morgan 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 →
cicada psychedelic 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 →
Projected Holly Face on Holly 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 →
Dancer on Floor with weird fingers 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 →
Projectors in tin foil room 2003 Rando - Available on: iTunes Spotify   Some random improvisational noise, live and multitracked. Enjoy! Flash player not working? Try the Spotify…
Dancer on Floor with weird fingers 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 →
Repeat Repeat 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.
Belgian Grave Water 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 →
Jameson Neat Coffee Back 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 →
Enemy of all good times 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 →
Roesing behind wires 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 →
Misanthropic Power Point Presentation 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 →
Advertisement Template 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 →
Relaxing on the Main 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 →
Three Red Squares and an Orange 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 →
CGI woman floats in sea with tree 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.
Three Red Squares and an Orange 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.
Title with cool lines 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.
Ape Gremlin 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.
Art Damage Birthday 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…  
Video Noise 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.  
Three Red Squares and an Orange 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…  
Three Red Squares and an Orange 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.
Laptop in Dark 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 →
space_body_holly 2004 Cincinnati Fringe Festival - Shot on a Minolta 35mm film camera. 2004 Cincinnati Fringe Festival
Projectors in tin foil room 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 →
Mole Lady Portrait 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 →
Three Red Squares and an Orange 2004 Dana Colors Eggs - For the 2004 book release party of roesing Ape’s ‘A Beautiful Woman’, Dana Hamblen did a colored egg presentation.
Southgate Live 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.
Hey Screen 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.
Gabe is a Mummy 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…
creepy_gabe 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
Three Red Squares and an Orange 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 →
Three Red Squares and an Orange 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.
Roesing plays siren with angels 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 →
Silvia's Hand 2004 Hands - Experimental hand dancing of Mickey Morgan set to keyboard and synth nonsense. Part of a larger piece that also involved feet.
Poo Shoe 2004 Joshua Treble aka Tony Boggs Live at Mockbee - For the Roesing Ape book release – A Beautiful Woman – in Cincinnati’s Mockbee/SSNova gallery.
Giant Cow on Route 66 2004 Lesniak & Hearts of Palm - Live at the Comet in Cincinnati, for a roesing ape CD release.
Light 2004 Lights - Just some photos of lights. Shot on a 35mm Minolta film camera, age stressed with a Nikon D5100. 2004 Lights
Lost Parlour 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…  
Nosing a fish 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 →
Wood Flower 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
Pittsburgh Single 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…  
Roesing behind wires 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.
Projectors in tin foil room 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 →
Ape & Kitty 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 →
Roesing behind wires 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.
Blue Screen Silhouette Dancers 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.
Condescending Projects 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).
Snail on Window in France 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
separated 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 →
The Year Noise Broke 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…
Hurtful Stories 2004 Time Outside My Body Promo - Promo for Tara Michelle Guilfoil’s award winning piece at the 2003 Cincinnati Fringe Festival.
Projected Holly Face on Holly 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 →
Oh Look Me Coffee 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
30th Party 2005 30th Party - Photos of the 30th party. Shot on a Minolta 35mm, traditionally developed and scanned in. 2005 30th Party
Shitty beginnings 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 →
Hey Screen 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
Ladies and Mannequins on Stage 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 →
Misanthropic Power Point Presentation 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 →
Cropped 90s Roesing Ape Logo 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.
Art Damage Lodge Live 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 →
Mole Lady Portrait 2005 Art Damage Presents the Cincinnati Laptop Orchestra - A bunch of noise guys with laptops and a conductor with a 12 channel mixer.
space_body_holly 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 →
Asks is the American Christ Satan 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…  
Carcassonne 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 2005 Cincinnati People - Photos of people in Cincinnati. Shot on a Minolta 35mm, traditionally developed and scanned in. 2005 Cincinnati People
Eats 2005 Eats - Available on: iTunes Spotify Napster Deezer   Experimental multitracking and live noise in a warehouse from the mid aughts. Enjoy?   Try the Spotify…  
Christmas Aliens 2005 Happy Holidays - Available on: iTunes Spotify   A holiday album in July. Some robots sing on it. Try the Spotify…
Cat in Window 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
Attack Sky 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.
what blurry space monster 2005 Ishtar - Vocals & script by Nik Soluski. Video & audio by Roesing Ape. Graphics by both. For Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park’s Alteractive series.
Unknown 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.
Roesing Ape Fell to His Death 2005 Land of Zog - Noise and b-roll collage made under the influence of the style of KR Zog aka Ron Orovitz.
Land of Zog 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…  
Clouds and Sun and Shit 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.
Roesing on laptop 2005 Live at Art Damage - Live noise set at the original Art Damage venue on Hamilton in Northside, Cincinnati Ohio. Video shot by Orovitz.    
rose goat 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.
Violin Player and Amp 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…
Smokestacks in sky closer 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
Infinite Tree Leaves 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.
Guilt Pumpkin 2005 October 16 - Halloween theme & street dance photos. Shot on a 35mm Minolta film camera. Moderately photoshopped in certain cases. 2005 October 16
Relaxing on the Main 2005 offenbach am main feet - relax for once in a month or year or forever
Blurry Yoga Dancers 2005 Performance & Time Arts Series - Contemporary Dance Theatre, Cincinnati Ohio. Shot on a Cannon 35mm DLSR. 2005 Performance & Time Arts Series
Roesing behind wires 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.    
Wood Flower 2005 Raw Water Noise - Noisy water captured for some other thing but I like it.
Sagrada Familia 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
Complacency Brochure 2005 Sam Nation ‘why art sucks’ Series Excerpt - Sam “Nation” Shipman’s last known interview, created for an anti-art art installation for an installation art class.
Sour Mash 2005 Still Life - It’s just some fucking photographs. Shot on a Minolta 35mm film camera, stressed with a Nikon D5100. 2005 Still Life
Buy 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 →
NFS Files 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…  
Gabe is a Mummy 2005 Unloop - Experiment in mixing and effecting looping and broken records in a digital video editor.
Blue Screen Silhouette Dancers 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 ‘2006’ - Available on: Spotify Amazon Deezer   Stuff from 2006. Obvi. Enjoy? Flash player not working? Try the Spotify…  
Media bridges Live 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.
Curled Naked Roesing 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 →
Banana Slug 2006 banjoe - I play the banjoe.
Gabe presents a toy drum kit 2006 BigKno - A creepy video made from Bryce 3D and After Effects scraps.
Roesing on laptop 2006 Comet CD Release - Live show at the Comet Bar in Cincinnati Ohio. Testament to their burritos that I didn’t chase everyone out of the place.
Blurry in Sewer under Bisby 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 →
Archie the Janitor 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 →
Web Voices 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 →
Standard Burning Man Photo 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 →
Hurtful Stories 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 →
Compañía Nacional de Danza 2 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 →
Ruins in Bisby 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 →
Curled Naked Roesing 2006 Disciplicity & Academics Excerpt – Scene Analysis 1 Bent - I am whatever. I am a man doomed to die. I have no escape. I am a homosexual. I am a prisoner of the Nazis during world war two. I am very tired, usually hungry, and mostly weak. I don’t Continue reading →
Intro to Oregon 2006 Disciplicity & Academics Excerpt – The Cambridge Illustrated History of France; Review - The Cambridge Illustrated History of France is a fairly comprehensive journey through French history stretching from early prehistoric art through the Gaullish and Roman times and up to the early nineteen-nineties and the fifth republic. Despite the wide parameters of Continue reading →
Sagrada Familia 2006 Disciplicity & Academics Excerpt – The Psychological Constructs of Shakespearean Villainy - Holy shit yet another college paper on Shakespeare. How many millions, nay, billions of term papers on this god forsaken never dying eternal genius bard? We might as well start a religious cult. You could probably make a case that Continue reading →
Hurtful Stories 2006 Disciplicity & Academics Excerpt – Voice II Human Condition - First of all no presentation could actually be about the ‘human condition’ (speaking semantically), as the phrase or concept in and of itself is a complete myth as pertains to any unique individual. I can talk all day about my Continue reading →
Roesing Yeh 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 →
Unknown 2006 Disciplicity & Analytics: Academic Writing 2002 – 2006 - Academic writing concerning the state of non-profit arts and cultural policy in the United States.   Available in digital format and paperback.
Chunk Move 2006 DJ Cuddly-D & Abiyah COMMercial NOIse - With Soluski & Quinn Showgirls. Live at The Comet in Northside-Cincinnati Ohio.
End of 0h Six 2006 End of 0h Six - Available on: Apple/iTunes Spotify Tidal Amazon Napster Deezer iHeart   Peak poppy Roesing. Enjoy. Try the Spotify…  
Curled Naked Roesing 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.
Roesing Ape Fell to His Death 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…
niks fleurs 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…
Cat on Kitsch Couch 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 →
Cat on Kitsch Couch 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 →
Gabe is a Mummy 2006 Mash Life - Available on: Spotify iTunes Amazon   Noise improvisational multitracking songs, with words and sounds. Flash player not working? Try the Spotify…
Mass Rectory 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…  
Roesing on laptop 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.
Media bridges Live 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 →
New Orleans after Katrina 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.
Roesing Toe 2006 n… - I n…
Abstract Monster with yellow eyes 2006 NOISE - noisey tv samples messed with.
Roesing selfie with hat 2006 Reflections - Only Interesting to me.
Sampler in Void 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…
Modem Crete 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 →
Sour Mash 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.
Wild Gunmen Ape Shit 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 →
Blurry Yoga Dancers 2006 Vide - Demo video of Holly Price and Rebecca Bedel piece. Nik Soluski does vocals on second half of music track.
Video Noise 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…  
Roesing on laptop 2007 Ambient Multimedia at the Library - Part of a Cincinnati Public Library Series. I’m still not sure of the value of photographing people playing noise music on a laptop. Photos by Nebula Girl bless her heart. 2007 Ambient Multimedia at the Library
Lite Bright Festival Stage 2007 Cincinnati Lite Brite Film Festival - Video projections for live performance in Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky during the 2007 Lite Brite Indie Pop Film Festival. Shot on Minolta 35mm film. 2007 Cincinnati Lite Brite Festival
Condescending Projects 2007 Condescending Projects - Available on: iTunes Spotify Amazon Deezer   Soundtracks for video installations for parties and shows and fundraisers mainly geared towards annoying the artistic elite of a sad Midwestern city.. Enjoy?    Flash player not working? Try the Spotify…  
Relaxing on the Main 2007 Germany Tour Snaps - Shot on Minolta 35mm film. 2007 Germany Tour Snaps
Dirty Fire Hydrant 2007 Germany Tour Snaps pt. 2 - Shot on Minolta 35mm film. 2007 Germany Tour Snaps pt. 2
Strange Pink Noise 2007 ibi - Available on: iTunes Spotify Amazon   Part of the Infinity Blip Infinity series, around a dozen albums where I tried to mash together songwriting and experimental noise. It varies from touching, to garbage. Flash player not working? Try the Spotify…
Holly's Foot 2007 ibi 2 - Available on: iTunes Spotify Amazon   Part of the Infinity Blip Infinity series, around a dozen albums where I tried to mash together songwriting and experimental noise. It varies from touching, to garbage. That’s Holly Price’s foot. Flash player not Continue reading →
Jameson Neat Coffee Back 2007 Kaldi’s Drunks - Drunk people and me at Kaldi’s Coffee in Cincinnati Ohio. Shot on a cheap Samsung flip phone. 2007 Kaldi's Drunks
Leftovers 2007 Leftovers - Available on: iTunes Spotify Amazon Napster Deezer   Leftover versions of multitracked banjo songs that were just sitting around so I reheated them. Enjoy. Flash player not working? Try the Spotify…
Pink weird Mush 2007 love - wherein I trick you into listening to my song and seeing glimpses of blurred out bukkake by the cute as hell puppet method.   From the album: Amazon iTunes Spotify
Roesing selfie with hat 2007 Mash V - Available on: iTunes Spotify   The half noise, half song-ish type thing album that launched the Infinity Blip Infinity series of albums. It’s like watching a pile of metallic trash roll down a hill and somehow randomly turn into a Continue reading →
TV Static with Title 2007 Modem Speak Ensemble (feat. John Rich) - Available on: iTunes Spotify   Ear piercing pipe, recorder, oboe, flute and feedback among other things. What the robots in the future listen to. We were millennia ahead of our time. Enjoy? Flash player not working? Try the Spotify…
N Roesing 2007 N Roesing - Available on: iTunes Spotify Amazon Napster Deezer   The recordings that made the basis for the short lived but legendary, Guns N Roesing. Those recordings are still held by an evil wizard in the Ohio river valley. Enjoy.   Flash Continue reading →
Guitar Players Blurry 2007 Rhys Chatham @ Skull Lab - Evidence of my participation in a Rhys Chatham performance at Skull Lab, Cincinnati Ohio. Photos by Nebula Girl. 2007 Rhys Chatham @ Skull Lab
The Wild Gunmen 2007 Roesing Ape Meets The Wild Gunmen - Available on: iTunes 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 Continue reading →
Weird Cartoon Instrument 2007 Sappy - Available on: iTunes Spotify   Noise artist turned song writer, the official transition. Some great tracks. Some absolutely horrid tracks that should not be listened to. Cover by Nina Wright. Flash player not working? Try the Spotify…
CGI woman floats in sea with tree 2007 smallKno - Short noise video song.
New Orleans after Katrina 2007 Thematic Maneuver Live @ Skull Lab - Modern call and response prayer. Second speaker: Lacey Montgomery Casanova. Drummer: Julie Roessler. 2007 at the Skull Lab in the West End of Over the Rhine in Cincinnati Ohio. Footage provided by Wounded Slug. Mastered by Roesing Ape.
Thematic Maneuver Face 2007 Thematic Maneuver Live at Skull lab - Available on: iTunes Spotify Amazon Napster Deezer   Call and response performance poetry accomplished with Lacey Montgomery and Julie Roessler at the infamous ghetto punk venue Skull Lab in the slums of Cincinnati’s Over-the-Rhine. Enjoy. Try the Spotify…  
Roesing Ape Fell to His Death 2007 Tsunami Original - Live noise set over a live video of the top of my aquarium dedicated to the Tsunami victims way back when.
Sad old man drunk 2007 Ungrateful Heart Porn - Available on: iTunes Spotify   A song about porn. Flash player not working? Try the Spotify…
Unknown 2007 Unknown EP - Available on: Apple Music Spotify Tidal Amazon Napster Deezer iHeart Radio   Unknown. Enjoy. Try the Spotify…  
Projectors in tin foil room 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 →
alonzo shaolin 24 2008 Alonzo King Lines Ballet w/ Shaolin Monks - Live performance presented by White Bird, Portland Oregon, 2008, shot on Nikon D3 w/ 400mm lens. 2008 Alonzo King Lines Ballet w/ Shaolin Monks
Three Red Squares and an Orange 2008 I.B.I. C.R.A.P. - Available on: iTunes Spotify Amazon   Part of the Infinity Blip Infinity series, around a dozen albums where I tried to mash together songwriting and experimental noise. It varies from touching, to garbage. Try the Spotify…
Roesing Ape Fell to His Death 2008 I.B.I. Live - Available on: iTunes Spotify Amazon   Part of the Infinity Blip Infinity series, around a dozen albums where I tried to mash together songwriting and experimental noise. It varies from touching, to garbage. Try the Spotify…
Silver computer face 2008 ibi finals - Available on: iTunes Spotify Amazon   Part of the Infinity Blip Infinity series, around a dozen albums where I tried to mash together songwriting and experimental noise. It varies from touching, to garbage. Try the Spotify…
inbal pinto 04 2008 Inbal Pinto - Live in Portland Oregon. Shot on Nikon D3, 400mm lens.   2008 Inball Pinto
Words on a toilet in the void 2008 Infinity (blip) Infinity - Available on: iTunes Spotify Amazon   Part of the Infinity Blip Infinity series, around a dozen albums where I tried to mash together songwriting and experimental noise. It varies from touching, to garbage. Try the Spotify…
Kidd Pivot Long Exposure 2008 Kidd Pivot - Portland Oregon, Nikon D3 2008 Kidd Pivot
KJ Wed 2008 KJ Wed - K and J’s marriage in Portland Oregon. Shot on a Minolta 35mm and age-stressed with a Nikon D5100. 2008 KJ Wed
PDX 1 2008 PDX 1 - Scenes from my first two years in Portland – plus a couple bits of packing up in Cincinnati. Shot with a 35mm Minolta film camera and stressed with a Nikon D5100. 2008 PDX 1
CGI woman floats in sea with tree 2008 Profile Theatre Posters - Mock ups of posters made for Profile Theatre in Portland Oregon. 2008 Profile Theatre Posters
Portland Dance Mafia 2008 Skinner/Kirk/Bielemeier - Live performance presented by White Bird, Portland Oregon, 2008, shot on Nikon D3 w/ 400mm lens. 2008 Skinner/Kirk/Bielemeier
Tero Dancing 2008 Tero Saarinen Dance - Live performance presented by White Bird, Portland Oregon, 2008, shot on Nikon D3 w/ 400mm lens. 2008 Tero Saarinen Dance
Some Fire 2008 The Plan - The Plan.  This is how I came up with my plan to kill every man, woman and child on this planet. This is how I found a way to destroy all life on earth. And this is how my plan Continue reading →
Weird possibly vagina face 2009 .5% ibi - Available on: iTunes Spotify Amazon   Part of the Infinity Blip Infinity series, around a dozen albums where I tried to mash together songwriting and experimental noise. It varies from touching, to garbage. The album cover might be a close Continue reading →
Birgit Anoukvandijk 2009 Anoukvandijk dc “Stau” - Live rehearsals and performance of Anoukvandijk dc’s piece “Stau”. Performed at Oaks Park in Portland Oregon, presented by White Bird. Shot on a Nikon D3 with a 35mm lens. 2009 Anoukvandijk dc "Stau"
Aspen dancing 2009 Aspen Santa Fe Ballet - Live in Portland Oregon. Presented by White Bird. Shot on A Nikon D3 with a 400mm lens, no flash. 2009 Aspen Santa Fe Ballet
Dancers with blow up dolls 2009 Bad Boys of Dance - Live in Portland Oregon, shot on Nikon D3 with a 400mm lens. 2009 Bad Boys of Dance
barney 09 2009 Barney the White Bird - Close-up photo-shoot of Barney the White Bird, CEO of White Bird Dance in Portland Oregon. Shot on a Nikon D3 with a 35mm lens. See best contemporary dance in the world at whitebird.org.
Dance Brazil 2009 Dance Brazil - Presented by White Bird Dance in Portland Oregon. Shot on a Nikon D3 with a 400mm lens. 2009 Dance Brazil
Weird Bow Dancer 2009 Daniel Léveillé Danse - Live in Portland Oregon, presented by White Bird. Shot on a Nikon D3 with a 400mm lens. 2009 Daniel Léveillé Danse
Hofesh standing 2009 Hofesh Shechter Company - Live in Portland Oregon. Presented By White Bird. Shot on a Nikon D3 with a 400mm Lens. 2009 Hofesh Shechter Company
Fairly Standard Dance Photo 2009 Lars Lubovitch - Live in Portland Oregon, 2009. Shot on a Nikon D3 with a 400mm lens. 2009 Lars Lubovitch
Meeting San Francisco 2009 Meeting San Francisco - First time in San Francisco et environs. One shot is of the first solo woman solar and human powered boat trip attempt from SF to Hawaii or something I stumbled upon. Shot on a 35mm film Minolta and stressed with Continue reading →
Minh and Tere 2009 Minh Tran/Tere Mathern Promo - Promotional shots for a White Bird commission in Portland Oregon. Shot on a Nikon D3 with a 35mm lens. 2009 Minh Tran/Tere Mathern Promo
Tomato Plants in an Orange Fiberglass Shower Tub 2009 Rando PDX - Random observations of Portland Oregon and environs. Kinda bleh? Shot on some random digital camera from the aughts. 2009 Rando PDX
Shen Wei Snow 2009 Shen Wei Dance Arts - Live in Portland Oregon. Presented by White Bird. Shot on a Nikon D3 with a 400mm lens with no flash. 2009 Shen Wei Dance Arts
Trey McIntyre 2009 Trey McIntyre Project - Shot live on a Nikon D3 with a 400mm lens. Presented by White Bird in Portland Oregon. 2009 Trey McIntyre Project
Hipster Married Couple 2010 A Portland Wedding - Your standard hipster wedding. Shot on a Nikon D3 with a 35mm lens. 2010 A Portland Wedding
Cat on Bookshelf 2010 baby - dumb video.   From the album: Amazon iTunes Spotify
Bruno Blurry 2010 Bruno Beltrão Grupo de Rua - Live in Portland Oregon. Presented by White Bird. Shot on a Nikon D3 with a 400mm Lens. 2010 Bruno Beltrão Grupo de Rua
Chunk Move 2010 Chunky Move - Presented by White Bird Dance in Portland Oregon at the YWCA gym. Shot on a Nikon D3 with a 200mm lens. The tree was just outside and I liked it.
Compañía Nacional de Danza 2 2010 Compañía Nacional de Danza 2 - Presented by White Bird Dance in Portland Oregon. Shot on a Nikon D3 with a 400mm lens.
Complexions Pose 2010 Complexions Dance - Live in Portland Oregon. Presented by White Bird. Shot on a Nikon D3 with a 400mm lens and no flash. 2010 Complexions Dance
Hubbard Street 2010 Hubbard Street Dance - Presented by White Bird in Portland Oregon. Shot on a Nikon D3 with a 400mm lens. 2010 Hubbard Street Dance
Upside down chair 2010 ibi 0 - Available on: iTunes Spotify Amazon   Part of the Infinity Blip Infinity series, around a dozen albums where I tried to mash together songwriting and experimental noise. It varies from touching, to garbage. Try the Spotify…
3D sludge man 2010 ibi With Balls - Available on: iTunes Spotify Amazon   Part of the Infinity Blip Infinity series, around a dozen albums where I tried to mash together songwriting and experimental noise. It varies from touching, to garbage. Try the Spotify…
Small Dinosaur on USB Charger 2010 le bel homme excerpt: The Infinite File Tree - C: No Yes Maybe C: Maybe: I You They We C: Maybe: We: Can Cannot Will Will not C: Maybe: We: Can: Better Worsen Live Die C: Maybe: We: Can: Live: And Or But A An C: Maybe: We: Can: Continue reading →
Attack Sky 2010 le bel homme excerpt: The Northwest v. Mid-West v. KY v. HI - THE green of the Pacific Northwest is like a dagger. Yet it has no point, and no edge. It is gigantic, and you can walk right up to it. So you do. You walk right up to the deadly sharp Continue reading →
Ping Pong Paddle, cigarette, sunglasses 2010 Pewbacle - The pew, the proud.   From the album: Amazon iTunes Spotify
Random Dance Shot 2010 Random Dance Co. - Live performance in Portland Oregon, 2010, shot on Nikon D3 w/ 400mm lens. 2010 Random Dance Co.
Rob Johnson on White Drugs 2010 rob johnson’s white drug river medley - banjo and arrangement by rob johnson. video and audio recording and production by roesing ape. songs by various.
U-theatre Jump 2010 U-Theatre - Live performance in Portland Oregon presented by White Bird. Shot on a Nikon D3 with a 400mm lens. 2010 U-Theatre
Portland Craftsman Bungalow 2011 13 Post-Medium Appalachian Folk Noise Songs - Available on: Amazon iTunes Spotify   Post-Medium Appalachian Folk Noise Songs. All recorded in one take with minimal effects and overdubbing. Flash player not working? Try the Spotify…
buck of rain 2011 Buckets of Rain - Available on: Spotify Deezer   Cover of a Bob Dylan Classic. Guitar, vocals, and harmonica by Catherine Rehm. Production and all the other weird noises by Roesing Ape. Enjoy.   Thanks to technocratic overlord mechanical licensing, try the Spotify…  
Fraulein Maria Dance Troupe 2011 Doug Elkins’ Fraulein Maria - Live performance in Portland Oregon, 2011, shot on Nikon D3 w/ 400mm lens. 2011 Doug Elkins' Fraulein Maria
Doug Elkins Glam Shot 2011 Doug Elkins’ photoshoot - Shot on a Nikon D3 with a 400mm lens. 2011 Doug Elkins’ photoshoot
Fiesta Wedding 2011 Fiesta Wedding - I was once hired as a wedding photographer on the cheap in the Portland Latino community. Working class family, statistics and the suspicious stares at my lily white face, among other things, gave me the impression there were a number Continue reading →
Dinner Pigs 2011 Gratuitous Food - From that year everyone was compulsively posting food pics on Facebook. Shot  on a cell phone. 2011 Gratuitous Food
Guitar in Beach on Hawaii 2011 Hawaii Wedding Hitchhike - I went to a wedding on the big island and hitchhiked around the perimeter. Shot on a Minolta 35mm film camera. 2010 Hawaii Wedding Hitchhike
Jo Kreiter Tree Dance 2011 Jo Kreiter Tree Dance - Aerial dancer Jo Kreiter of San Francisco/Flyaway Productions did some fancy swinging from a tree for a former employer’s birthday. The rich get what they want. Shot on a Nikon D3 with a 75mm lens.
2011 Le Bel Homme (The Plan) - Scattered autobiographical rants twisted into fictionalized futures and scathing commentary on the baselines of American life in the early twenty-teens. From this, a gentle plan to destroy all humankind is developed and implemented.   Available in digital format and paperback.
intro 2011 Le Bel Homme (The Plan) Excerpt – Intro - (intro) IT began when your nails started rotting and your hair fell out. Your belly distended, and your lungs collapsed into wooden splinters. This is how you discover the secret to destroying human civilization. This is how you find out Continue reading →
Guitar in Beach on Hawaii 2011 le bel homme excerpt: (information parasite) - (information parasite) TALKING to people is stupid. Unless they already know what you’re going to say, and then it’s just frustrating. The only time it works is when they know what they’d like you to say, and you say it. Continue reading →
Wave Particle Duality Debunked 2011 le bel homme excerpt: (piece of shit pizza) - (piece of shit pizza) YOU and the world were totally fucked, but it had come on slow and all-of-the-sudden hadn’t happened just yet. One day you went to an Italian restaurant on your way to a friend’s house and had Continue reading →
Giant Cow on Route 66 2011 le bel homme excerpt: The Infinite File Tree part ii - C: Maybe/We/Can/Live/But/What/If/That/Isn’t/Enough/To/Not/   Eat Drink High Five Suck Die Be Hurt   C: Maybe/We/Can/Live/But/What/If/That/Isn’t/Enough/To/Not/Die/   And But If So Now Here   C: Maybe/We/Can/Live/But/What/If/That/Isn’t/Enough/To/Not/Die/And/   They We He It   C: Maybe/We/Can/Live/But/What/If/That/Isn’t/Enough/To/Not/Die/And/We/   Can Will Won’t Know Have   C: Continue reading →
Yard with grass and trash can 2011 NoPo Homes - Things at homes in North Portland Oregon. Shot on a 35mm Minolta film camera, transcribed and age stressed with a Nikon D5100. 2011 NoPo Homes
Anya Dancer 2011 PDX Bike Warehouse - Custom welded bikes, jumping women. 2011 PDX Bike Warehouse
Pilobolus Bodyvox 2011 Pilobolus Class at BodyVox - Pilobolus masterclass at Bodyvox in Portland. Shot on a Nikon D3 with a 35mm lens. 2011 Pilobolus Class at BodyVox
Portland Taiko Drum Hit 2011 Portland Taiko - Shot on a Nikon D3 with a 400mm lens. 2011 Portland Taiko
Future Fluorescent 2011 POV Dance - Live performance in Portland Oregon. Shot on a Nikon D3 with a 35mm lens. 2011 POV Dance
House Shan Eats 2011 Quick Portraits of House Shan - Shots from a photoshoot for a roommate who was trying to break into comedy. Seemed cool. Shot on a Nikon D3.
Ping Pong Paddle, cigarette, sunglasses 2011 Shots at the Nest pt. 1 - Randos at the original Nest Bar & Lounge on Alberta St. in Portland Oregon. Shot on a 35mm Minolta film camera, transcribed and age stressed with a Nikon D5100. 2011 Shots at the Nest pt. 1
Silvia's Hand 2011 St. Johns Pirate Cove - A summer walk through St. Johns in Portland Oregon, through Cathedral Park and Pirate Cove. Shot on a Nikon D3 with a 75mm lens. 2011 St. Johns Pirate Cove
teeth shoving microphones in mouths 2011 tEEth Dance - Live performance in Portland Oregon, 2011, shot on Nikon D3 w/ 400mm lens. 2011 tEEth Dance
Roesing Silhouette with Mic 2011 White Bird Birthday Speech - Wherein I did something weird behind a curtain. Featuring a bird and a booty. Shot on a Nikon D3 with a 35mm lens. 2011 White Bird Birthday Speech
Standard Burning Man Photo 2012 Burning Man - Yadda yadda. Shot on a Nikon D5100 with a 35mm lens. 2012 Burning Man
Ultraviolet Invisible Ink Butterfly 2012 Go On (Goon) - I complain and moan and bitch but I go on because the sun tastes yummy.   From the album: Amazon iTunes Spotify
Lady with flowing mauve shaw 2012 Jitterbug Junebug - Alleyway dance in San Francisco. Shot on a Nikon D5100 with a 35mm lens. 2012 Jitterbug Junebug
Cat on Kitsch Couch 2012 Kitty - an ode to my kitty, sappy.   From the album: Amazon iTunes Spotify
Roesing Toe 2012 Motion Theatre Errata - Improvisational autobiographical dance in a San Francisco studio and the legendary (weirdly authoritarian) spiritual retreat of the Esalen Institute. Shot on a Nikon D5100 with a 35mm lens. 2012 Motion Theatre Errata
Dancer in Bed 2012 San Francisco Dance Class - Photos of an end-of-course dance class performance somewhere in San Francisco. Shot on a Nikon D5100 with a 35mm lens. 2012 San Francisco Dance Class
Oddly Dressed Dancers 2012 SF Flamenco - Shot in the Mission on a Nikon D5100 with a 35mm lens. 2012 SF Flamenco
Red Dragonfly 2012 SF.Week.01.debrief - View post on imgur.com You Move to San Francisco: SAN FRANCISCO fucks you. It fucks you hard and you don’t know if you’re being raped or about to come. Actually San Francisco lands you like a sunny soft pillow of Continue reading →
Shitty beginnings 2012 Shit - Artful shit of dog. The dog’s name was Sky. So, this shit fell from the sky. Shot on a Nikon D5100 with a 35mm lens. 2012 Shit
Blurry Coffee Shop 2012 Shoved (video by notthisbody) - I know baby she is the one, drives me crazy pushing and shoving. But she saved me I was down in the dumps. She walked by and then I could run. I know baby she was the one. She was Continue reading →
Ping Pong Paddle, cigarette, sunglasses 2012 The tv - girls I know flicking me off in places I go.   From the album: Amazon iTunes Spotify
Portland Craftsman Bungalow 2012 with - drunk S. kills gingerbread house and family.   From the album: Amazon iTunes Spotify
Jameson Neat Coffee Back 2012 wouldn’t mind dying but.. .(traditional) - This video was uploaded from an Android phone.
Ping Pong Paddle, cigarette, sunglasses 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
Portland Craftsman Bungalow 2012/2007 Get On - get on get off. Video recycled from a stage lighting projection made for a live show by Jeremy Milsaps.   From the album: Amazon iTunes Spotify
Banana Slug 2013 Bay Area Nature - Trees and stuff from around the San Francisco Bay Area. Shot on a Nikon D5100 with a 35mm lens. 2013 Bay Area Nature
Blurry Coffee Shop 2013 Day of the Dead San Francisco - Day of the dead in the Mission District of San Francisco. Shot on a Nikon D5100 with a 35mm lens. 2013 Day of Dead San Francisco
Sleeping Cat on Couch with banjo 2013 Monkey Sleep - Monkey Sleeps.
View from pele 2013 seaspray… - splat  
Lady with flowing mauve shaw 2013/2006 Sunny Porch w/ Scabs McGee - Porch jam offset on video b-roll from 2006. With Shannon McGavock.
San Francisco from the Oakland Hills 2014 Bay, Girl & Dog - Photo journey in the San Francisco Bay area with a girl and a dog. Shot on a Nikon D5100 with a 75 and 35mm lens. 2014 Bay, Girl & Dog
Dying in Bernal 2014 Dying in Bernal - Available on: iTunes Spotify Amazon Napster Deezer   Samplings of sad poems and sentimental strumming during the San Francisco Terror of 2014. Enjoy?   Flash player not working? Try the Spotify…  
Random Grand Canyon 2014 Lowlands (traditional) - Cover of a traditional sea shanty on the Assassin’s Creed 4 soundtrack.
Bud with Penny 2014 Rosebud’s Harvest - Medical Marijuana photo shoot in San Francisco, California. Organic and indoor. Shot on a Nikon D5100 with a 35mm lens. 2014 Rosebud's Harvest
Infinite Tree Leaves 2014 This is Important - No one knows. If anyone knew, they’d say. And if they said, everyone would know. It wouldn’t be hard, it would be easy, if it was it. It wouldn’t be complicated. It would make sense. It would be easy, if Continue reading →
Roesing Ape Fell to His Death 2014/2004/1998 Death Poem - I read a poem I wrote at 23, at the age of 39, mixed with b-roll from 2004.
Projectors in tin foil room 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.
Blue Roesing Banjo Sexy 2015 August 5 - banjo explorateur
Anya Dancer 2015 Equality - Equality   There is no equality. Ask an electron. Apparently they’re all the same, yet we can never know the position and momentum of any one of them. The Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics is Bullshit. I stand by that. Continue reading →
taint of San Francisco Close Wide 2015 Frailing in Grows - Available on: iTunes Spotify Napster Deezer   Field recording style audio mess of banjo, guitar, and bass in various marijuana grow warehouses in San Francisco. Some versions of old traditionals. Sounds like crap in the good way… sometimes.. Enjoy? Flash Continue reading →
Buy 2015 Insurance - Insurance   They (who are they?) call it the ‘equitable transfer of risk loss,’ but we (who am I speaking for?) all know it cannot, as a rule, be equitable, for we are told everything should stand on it’s own Continue reading →
Banjo Closeup 2015 No - Available on: iTunes Spotify   A collection of songs and noise inspired by traditional gospels tunes, sea shanties and lofi noise. Mostly banjo oriented and multi-tracked, mostly written but a little improvised. Some of it is pretty good. Enjoy! Flash Continue reading →
Sepia Clouds and Moon and Shit 2015 On the Battle for - Feynman & Susskind batter me forthwith. Letting it all fall off to see what’s left; base desires seeking ever lower energies, insatiable desire for distraction in television, movies and games, which when left to simmer for eons of wasted satiation, Continue reading →
Weed Bud 2015 Pot Gingerbread Man - His story through the Wasteland. Shot on a Nikon D5100 with a 35mm lens. 2015 Pot Gingerbread Man
Starry San Francisco Sky 2015 Random Girl - I met a random girl at a party. Shot on a Nikon D5100 with a 35mm lens. 2016 Random Girl
Cropped Taint 2015 San Francisco, Views from the Taint - San Francisco – Views from the Taint       Who needs anything but the constant bombardment of images of other people better than you, licking their skinny manicured model’s fingers of the latest technological gadgetry about to be fucked Continue reading →
shine lord draft 2015 Uncopy of Lord Draft - lord don’t like what the lord cant hear, better quit drinking shine by the time he’s done we wont be here. better quit drinking shine Lord shoots first then drinks lite beer, better quit drinking shine They call it fat but Continue reading →
Inverted Sexy Roesing 2015 Wrong Way Blue - blue anger
Dancer on Floor with weird fingers 2015 Zaccho Rehearsal - Random photo shoot of a San Francisco company rehearsing at Zaccho Dance Theatre. Shot on a Nikon D5100 with a 35mm lens. 2015 Zaccho Rehearsal
Lit Globe 2016 Antenna For the Light - Available on: Amazon iTunes Spotify   Porch banjo rag. Flash player not working? Try the Spotify…
Junk in Bisby Arizona 2016 Black Girl (Cover of Lead Belly) - Black girl, black girl Don’t you lie to me Tell me where did you sleep last night ‘Neath the pines, ‘neath the pines Where the sun never shines And I shivered in the cold, deadly cold* Her husband was a Continue reading →
broke hydrant 2016 Broke - Available on: Amazon iTunes Spotify   Weird song recorded in an RV in a redwood forest. Enjoy. Try the Spotify…
Clouds and Sun and Shit 2016 Dark thoughts Pretty Pictures (Cascade Siskiyou N.M.) - Hyatt Lake Reservoir Oregon There is Power in Punishment. This Creates a Shape in Time. There is nothing to live for in this Punishment, but it does not Kill you.   So you Celebrate.   And so the Free are Continue reading →
Solar Eclipse with Plane 2016 Deej Ape - Available on: iTunes Spotify   Experiments with tablet DJ noise crafting. It makes you want to dance, and then it messes with your rhythm and you have to stop. And then it makes you want to dance again, or turn Continue reading →
Strange Lamp Shade 2016 Glitch the Keyboard - Available on: iTunes Amazon Spotify   Live cheap keyboard glitch performance. Try the Spotify…
locust 2016 Locust - Available on: iTunes Spotify   Epic banjo heavy cosmic morbid positivity. Try the Spotify…
Dog Poop on Concrete 2016 Micro Dirty Man w/ Scabs McHavoc - Available on: iTunes Spotify     Bluesy explorations not meant to please anyone but Scabs and Roesing recorded in a marijuana grow house in San Francisco. Dedicated to Sky Dog. Enjoy? Try the Spotify…
Rando Bay 2016 SF Bay Area Scraps - Android phone dump of times around the San Francisco Bay in 2016. Enjoy. 2016 SF Bay Area Scraps
Lighthouse in Desert 2016 Snippets of a Black Rock Lighthouse Service Dream - No idea. Oh god I’m out of words. 2016 Black Rock Lighthouse Service. I helped a tiny bit. It was Amaze Balls Awesome Sauce. Thanks!
Blurry Coffee Shop 2016 Superhero Street Fair - Trolling Youtube’s content ID system to shove fair use down the throats of our algorithmic overlords. Mashup by Roesing Ape, music by DJ Laird & Friends. Saturday, October 22, 2016, Napoleon @ Jerrold Streets, San Francisco California. superherosf.com.
New Orleans after Katrina 2016 Trumpty-Drumpfty - Trumpty-Drumfpty fell off the wall, minorities and women punted his balls, all the king’s bigots, all the white men, could not put them together again. #trumptydumptyfelloffthewall
Dancers floor to ceiling climbing 2016 Zaccho Dance Theatre @ Strand - Live performance at A.C.T. Strand Theater in San Francisco, California. Shot on a Nikon D3 with a 35mm lens. 2016 Zaccho Dance Theatre at the Strand
Red Dragonfly 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.
Small Dinosaur on USB Charger 2016/2005 broke - Synth voice and drum jam set to b-roll from a few dance pieces in 2005.   Available on: Amazon iTunes Spotify
Yellow moon 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.
Roesing Ape Fell to His Death 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.
Future Fluorescent 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.
California Scraps 2017 California Scraps - Available on: iTunes Spotify Amazon Napster   Banjo and synth experimentation in a trailer in a redwood forest in the mountains. Enjoy.   Try the Spotify…  
Three Red Squares and an Orange 2017 Cooking with Chicken Lays an Egg Shirt - Doesn’t make any sense to you. Makes sense to someone else. Available in several colors. Photo from a performance piece you didn’t go to by an artist you don’t know in a place you’ve never been. Available on Amazon. Photo/design by Continue reading →
R2D2 Kite 2017 Earth Day San Francisco - At the Civic Center in Downtown San Francisco. Featuring the March for Science. Shot on a Nikon D5100 with a 35mm lens. 2017 Earth Day San Francisco
Clouds and Sun and Shit 2017 Earth Day San Francisco Appeal - Please visit earthdaysf.org or climatetheatre.com for more information, to volunteer, to give, or to plan your day. Donate through IndieGoGo’s Generosity Donate with Paypal:  
New Orleans after Katrina 2017 Earth Day San Francisco Appeal 2 - Please visit earthdaysf.org or climatetheatre.com for more information, to volunteer, to give, or to plan your day. Donate through IndieGoGo’s Generosity Donate with Paypal:  
Ice Mountains 2017 Earth Day San Francisco Appeal 2 - Please visit earthdaysf.org or climatetheatre.com for more information, to volunteer, to give, or to plan your day. Donate through IndieGoGo’s Generosity, or through Paypal:    
Solar Eclipse with Plane 2017 Eclipse to New York - Random Shots from the eclipse in Salem Oregon and meandering around New York City. Shot on a Nikon D5100 with a 35mm Lens. 2017 Eclipse to New York
taint of San Francisco Close up 2017 Feral Rat King Shirt - It’s a real thing. It’s a great Wikipedia article. Available in several colors. A feral rat king is when several dead and living rats… uh just google it. It’s terrifying and real, just like Roesing Ape. Available on Amazon. Photo/design Continue reading →
Hummingbird Face 2017 Flying Things pt. 1 - Details of things that fly. Shot on a Nikon D3 with a 75mm lens. 2017 Flying Things pt. 1
Weed Bud 2017 Half to Fight - Or the lackey savant. An experiment in crapwave. Using old footage from phones, VHS, early 2000’s cheap home computer animation, digital cameras and the dumb orange monkey.
Shen Wei Snow 2017 In Ball Snow Shirt - Hard to explain. Shoddy craftsmanship. Available in several colors. Part of a series of shirts displaying great moments in contemporary dance using the photography of Roesing Ape. Collect them all! Available on Amazon. Photo/design by Roesing Ape. Full Gallery: 2008 Inbal Continue reading →
Military Training Complex 2017 Joshua Shine - Version of Reverend I.B. Ware’s “Better Quit Drinking Shine” with different lyrics. Shot live in Joshua Tree California, then overdubbed.   Available on: iTunes Amazon Spotify
Blurry in Sewer under Bisby 2017 Joshua Shine (single) - Available on: iTunes Amazon Spotify   Reworking of a traditional song originated by the Reverend I.B. Ware. Flash player not working? Try the Spotify…
Ice Mountains 2017 Journey to Lady Soothsayer Mountain pt. 1 - Iceland landscapes. Shot on a Nikon D5100 with a 35mm lens. 2017 Journey to Lady Soothsayer Mountain
Icelandic Horses 2017 Journey to Lady Soothsayer Mountain pt. 2 - Icelandic horses. Shot on a Nikon D5100 with a 35mm lens. 2017 Journey to Lady Soothsayer Mountain pt. 2
Waves attacking rocks 2017 Journey to Lady Soothsayer Mountain pt. 3 - Icelandic waterscapes. Shot on a Nikon D5100 with a 35mm lens. 2017 Journey to Lady Soothsayer Mountain pt. 3
Northern Lights from Plane 2017 Journey to Lady Soothsayer Mountain pt. 4 - Icelandic lights. Shot on a Nikon D5100 with a 35mm lens. 2017 Journey to Lady Soothsayer Mountain pt. 4
Glass architecture nonsense 2017 Journey to Lady Soothsayer Mountain pt. 5 - Harpa. Shot on a Nikon D5100 with a 35mm lens. 2017 Journey to Lady Soothsayer Mountain pt. 5
Ruins in Bisby 2017 Journey to the Lavender Pit pt. 1 - Bisbee, Arizona. Shot on a Nikon D5100 with a 35 & 75mm lens. 2017 Journey to the Lavender Pit pt. 1
Junk in Bisby Arizona 2017 Journey to the Lavender Pit pt. 2 - Greater Bisbee, Arizona & Naco, Mexico. Shot on a Nikon D5100 with a 35 & 75mm lens. 2017 Journey to the Lavender Pit pt. 2
Military Training Complex 2017 Journey to the Lavender Pit pt. 3 - Joshua Tree & environs, California. Shot on a Nikon D5100 with a 35 & 75mm lens. 2017 Journey to the Lavender Pit pt. 3
Kidd Pivot Long Exposure 2017 Kid P. Shirt - Demonstrates falling while being flexible. May describe how you feel. Available in several colors. From a series of shirts showing dramatic moments in contemporary dance captured by the photography of Roesing Ape. Available on Amazon. Photo/design by Roesing Ape. Full Continue reading →
Shitty beginnings 2017 MAGFTFT - Realistic. It’s a good idea.. Available in several colors. Someone famous said it. It co-opts a dumb message. Great for causing double-takes on the street. Available on Amazon. Design by Roesing Ape. More shirts here  
Nature Lonely 2017 Nature Lonely - Available on: iTunes Spotify Amazon Napster Deezer   Audio experiments with field recordings of environmental sounds. Probably boring. Enjoy. Yeah the flash player doesn’t work… Try the Spotify…
Random Grand Canyon 2017 NYC Grand Canyon Shirt - Confusing. Misleading. Available in several colors. Confuse foreigners and the lightly traveled by suggesting with this shirt that New York City has a Grand Canyon street. Available on Amazon. Photo/design by Roesing Ape. Full gallery: 2012 SF.Week.01.debrief. More shirts here.
Field of Tree trunks 2017 Pele’s Dress pt. 1 - Vegetative views of the Big Island. Shot on a Nikon D5100 with a 75mm lens. 2017 Pele's Dress pt. 1
View from pele 2017 Pele’s Dress pt. 2 - Rocky views of the Big Island. Shot on a Nikon D5100 with a 75mm lens. 2017 Pele's Dress pt. 2
Roesing Ape Fell to His Death 2017 Roesing Ape F*cks Me Shirt - Hard to wear to school. Hard to wear to church. Available in several colors. Available on Amazon. Design by Roesing Ape. More shirts here  
Anya Dancer 2017 Scarcity is a Lie Shirt - Hard to explain. Hard to do anything about. Available in several colors. Let everyone know that Roesing Ape has messed with your head and/or body with weird music, art, or written words. Available on Amazon. Photo/design by Roesing Ape. Full Continue reading →
Field of Tree trunks 2017 The Dump - Available on: iTunes Spotify Amazon   Experiments in post-Trump recording methods and multi-takes on the same song. Hear the same lyrics and melody recorded within 3 different musical frameworks, book-ended by same strange noises! Very exciting. Enjoy. Flash player not Continue reading →
Infinite Tree Leaves 2017 The Last Tree - This was made using trees. This may not be the actual last tree. A gentle reminder to enjoy your South American beef and Burning Man and all the trees that die for them. Photo by Roesing Ape. Available on Amazon. Continue reading →
Future Fluorescent 2017 The Others (#meToo) - The Others   It happened when I was 17. I lived in my parents’ basement. My mother was wheelchaired by the ravages of twenty odd years of rheumatoid arthritis during a time when the drugs and methods to treat it Continue reading →
Military Training Complex 2017 The Winter of ’17 - Available on: Spotify iTunes   Noise banjo mostly recorded in a trailer on a farm in a redwood forest in the Santa Cruz Mountains during the winter of 2016/17. Flash player not working? Try the Spotify…
Guitar in Beach on Hawaii 2017 Venice Beach Jaded Review - Venice Beach, Los Angeles, California, 2017. Land of douche crowned by the last barnacle tendons of a beachfront madhouse strip, where humans are still to be found among the tourists. The old man playing furiously-expertly on the grand piano on Continue reading →
Woman in White Dress 2017 White Bird Fashion Fundraiser - A fashion show to raise funds for White Bird Dance featuring the clothing designs of Michelle Lesniak. 2017 White Bird Fashion Fundraiser
Cincinnati Streets 2018 Cincinnati Streets - Boring photos of Cincinnati in 2018. Shot on a Nikon D5100 with a 35mm lens. 2018 Cincinnati Streets
Reverse Copyright Infringement 2018 Golden Gate/Smuggler’s Cove Rando - Random snaps of a party at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco and Smuggler’s Cove in Oregon. Pretty boring. Don’t even look at them. Shot on a Nikon D5100.
Hawaii Chicken 2018 Hawaiian Homes & Gardens - Lovely shots of a cozy jungle hut in the Puna district of the big island. Shot on a Nikon D5100 with a 35mm lens and mosquito bites. 2018 Hawaiian Homes & Gardens
Jessica Lang Dance 2018 Jessica Lang Dance - Jessica Lang Dance performing live on stage at the Newmark Theatre in Portland Oregon. Presented by White Bird. Shot on a Nikon D3 with a 200mm lens. More at roesingape.org.   2018 Jessica Lang Dance
kittyright 2018 Kittyright - Available on: Spotify Amazon Napster Deezer   Second album in response to draconian algorithms used by digital distributors to monitor copyright, which have the effect of nearly banishing the right of fair use by independent artists. This work is made Continue reading →
Rennie Harris Pure Movement 2018 Rennie Harris Puremovement - Rennie Harris Puremovement’s production of LIFTED! presented by White Bird Dance in Portland Oregon. Shot on a Nikon D3 with a 200mm lens. 2018 Rennie Harris Puremovement
Reverse Copyright Infringement 2018 Rev Cop Inf - Available on: Spotify Amazon Napster Deezer   In response to draconian algorithms used by digital distributors to monitor copyright, which has the effect of nearly banishing the right of fair use by independent artists, I decided to create work which Continue reading →
Sour Mash 2018 Sour Mash - Available on: Apple Music Spotify Tidal Napster Deezer iHeart   Broadcast and mixed Live on KFFP FM in Portland Oregon. A good lesson in copyright subversion in the digital rights management algorithm landscape. Enjoy. Try the Spotify…  
Urban Bush Women 2018 Urban Bush Women - Live at the Newmark in Portland Oregon. Presented by White Bird. Shot on a Nikon D3 with a 200mm lens.   2018 Urban Bush Women
Wave Nausée 2018 Wave Nausée - Available on: iTunes Spotify Amazon Napster Deezer   Live mixed sampling from a radio show in Portland Oregon, created using a DJ app on an Android. It was a giant pain to get it past the copyright police. Enjoy. Flash Continue reading →
Windows 11 2018 Windows 11 – EscJape Vogue Live - Live performance of the first section of Windows 11, EscJape Vogue, as presented by the Regional Arts and Culture Council in Portland Oregon. Choreography & Direction: Beth Whelan Videography, Projection, Music: Roesing Ape Dancers: Alicia Cutaia, Emily Running, Willow Swanson, Continue reading →
Windows 11 2018 Windows 11 – Linear Gog Live - Live performance of the second section of Windows 11, Linear Gog, as presented by the Regional Arts and Culture Council in Portland Oregon. Choreography & Direction: Beth Whelan Videography, Projection, Music: Roesing Ape Dancers: Alicia Cutaia, Emily Running, Willow Swanson, Continue reading →
Windows 11 2018 Windows 11 – Weedies Live - Live performance of the third section of Windows 11, Weedies, as presented by the Regional Arts and Culture Council in Portland Oregon. Choreography & Direction: Beth Whelan Videography, Projection, Music: Roesing Ape Dancers: Alicia Cutaia, Emily Running, Willow Swanson, Beth Continue reading →
Windows 11 2018 Windows 11 Test Reel - Test and working reel for Roesing Ape and Beth Whelan’s Windows 11 performance piece presented by the Regional Arts and Culture Council in Portland Oregon for its Night Lights series. Audio is a live noise set circa 2004. Dancer is Continue reading →
Shopping Cart Puddle 2018 Winter in White Drug’s Cove - Explorations of the hidden cove near St. John’s in Portland Oregon, where white people go to do drugs and the homeless live on boats. Shot on a Nikon D5100 with a 35mm lens.   2018 Winter in White Drug’s Cove
Windows 11 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 →
Shopping Cart Puddle 2019 With the World - I feel like I’m being buried by weeks and time, each day is a shovel of dirt. The perspective taken – that place people go, who’ve had sustained trauma, is a place where nothing matters because we’re all dead eventually Continue reading →
Yellow Mud 2019 Big Teats Pee Stone - Grand Tetons in Yellowstone. Trying to capture impressionistic stills of abstracted natural textures. Blah. Shot on a Nikon D5100 with a 75mm lens. 2019 Big Teats Pee Stone
Blurry in Sewer under Bisby 2019 Bisbee Bodies - Available on: iTunes Spotify Napster Deezer   Live jams on the Mexican border drawing in the monsoons. Featuring Rob, Candice, Rain, Nila, Mitch, Brett, and Mawdawna. Try the Spotify…
bisbee 2019 Bisbee Scraps - Few photos left over from Bisbee Arizona and the little Mexican town across the way. Shot on a cheap Android. 2019 Bisbee Scraps
Fire Monster Befriends small Elephant 2019 Orange Monkey Skat - The Orange Monkey mumbles some stuff.
Cwrth 2020 Crwth - Available on: Apple Music Spotify Tidal Amazon Napster Deezer iHeart Radio   Leftovers from a Welsh documentary soundtrack. All sounds sourced from a banjo in traditional CWRTH four-string tuning. Enjoy. Try the Spotify…  
Mendo House 2020 Mendo House - A house and environs in Mendocino. Shot on a Nikon D5100. 2020 Mendo House
Mystic Chords of Memory 2020 Mystic Chords of Memory (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) - Available on: Apple Music Spotify Tidal Amazon Napster Deezer   Soundtrack for Lauren Everett’s feature length film, Mystic Chords of Memory. All sounds sourced from a banjo in traditional CRWTH tuning. Enjoy. Try the Spotify…  
Thundaar Lives! (Official Motion Picture Soundtrack) 2020 Thundaar Lives! (Official Motion Picture Soundtrack) - Available on: Apple Music Spotify Tidal Amazon Napster Deezer iHeart Radio   Soundtrack for Lauren Everett’s short film, Thundarr Lives! Rare piano work. Enjoy. Try the Spotify…  
ollie dog 2020-2023 Ollie Dog - Photos documenting the short and exciting life of Ollie, before he was taken from us by a rare auto-immune disease. 2020-2023 Ollie Dog
St. Johns 2020-2023 St. Johns & NoPo - Shot on Android. St. Johns and some North Portland shots between 2020 and 2023. It’s a phone dump. Let’s not get carried away. 2020 – 2023 St. Johns & NoPo
Military Training Complex 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.
La Honda Walk 2021 La Honda Mendo Volcano Scraps - Scraps from friendship with a Neo-pagan witch family through the northern California coast and the big island of Hawaii. Shot on a Nikon D5100. 2021 La Honda Mendo Volcano Scraps
Oregon Scrap 2021 Oregon Scraps - Random Scraps from hikes in Oregon. Shot on a Nikon D5100. 2021 Oregon Scraps
VOX NFS 2021 VOX NFS - Available on: Apple Music Spotify Tidal Amazon Napster Deezer iHeart Radio   Twenty years ago a vocalist gave me a CD with 78 short tracks on it. I finally put it through a blender. At best it works as crowd Continue reading →
Oak Burl Forest 2022 Oakridge Oregon Burlesque Forest - Blurry photos of a burlesque and sharp photos of a forest and river in the environs of Oakridge, Oregon. Shot on a Nikon D5100. 2022 Oakridge Ore
F. Art Jan. 6 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 →
Mudding Man 2023 Hey Grill (Here’s Some Radical Dick) - Live noise-grill-wagon-podracer set at Mudding Man 2023 on D Street. Special thanks to camp Andas #andas #roesingape.
No Face 2023 Now This (Is God Chasing) - Part 2 of a 3 part series – Live noise-grill-wagon-podracer set at Mudding Man 2023 on D Street. Special thanks to camp Andas, Dr. Suze & Muddy Squirrel #andas #roesingape.
Turtle Shadow 2023 Procession of Invitational Regret - Part 3 of a 6 part series – Live noise-grill-wagon-podracer set at Mudding Man 2023 on the streets of the playa. Special thanks to camp Andas, Dr. Suze & Muddy Squirrel #andas
Turtle Shadow 2023 The Long White March - Part 4 of a 6 part series. The long march to the desert turtle (andas) continues as our hapless heroes endure the consequences of inviting an old agro-noise anti-social burnout performance artist with Marxist undertones to a bourgeois dance festival Continue reading →