Analog Punk

Analog Punk is a live performance project combining comedy, clown, improv, technology, and the audience to create something that cannot happen the same way twice.

It grew out of years of experimental improv with Dreamwave, the Los Angeles improv project I founded and have developed for nearly two years with coach Craig Cackowski, and my more recent exploration of solo performance with Beck Drysdale. The clown and audience-driven work of Chad Damiani and Zach Zucker have also become major influences as the project has taken shape.

But mostly, it grew out of a question I've been circling for a long time:

What can happen in a room full of people that can't happen anywhere else?

The People in the Room

I've always been most interested in the part of improv that disappears.

A particular group of people gathers in a particular place. Something happens between them. Then it's over.

Analog Punk takes that seriously.

The performances have structure. They have ideas, objects, technology, and things I've prepared.

But they aren't finished until there are people in the room.

The audience isn't there simply to watch something I've made. What they do, say, notice, resist, misunderstand, laugh at, or unexpectedly create becomes part of what happens.

I bring the pursuit.

The room decides what it becomes.

Analog / Punk

I spend much of my life building technology.

I also make photographs on film, produce live comedy, build games, make music, and remain fascinated by experiences that resist being flattened into a screen.

Analog Punk lives inside that contradiction.

It isn't anti-technology. Technology is part of the material.

So are physical objects.

So are strangers.

So is failure.

The interesting part is what happens when all of those things occupy the same room.

An Ongoing Experiment

Analog Punk is still unfolding.

The first pieces are being developed through live performance in Los Angeles, with each performance informing whatever comes next.

I don't know exactly what the project will become.

That's part of the point.

What I do know is the constraint:

It has to be live. The people in the room have to matter. And if it could happen exactly the same way without them, it isn't Analog Punk.

Instagram: @analog.punk