photo by Frank Mullen

Performance
Poster Children: 1987-present. I am a classically trained pianist who read music before text, who has been performing as a professional punk-rock bass player, playing live shows for over 15 years in the US and Europe. I am known for an incredibly active stage performance, knocking myself around back and forth on the stage until I am sometimes bruised. My performance is informed by concepts of energy transference, eastern philosophy, and martial arts.

I step off the stage and into the audience each night, and speak with fans, stay at their houses, teach them computer programming, implore them to stay in school. I have been writing online tour reports (predecessor to blogging) since 1994, podcasting since 1998, and creating new media for audio CDs since it first became possible, all the time taking extra care to teach fans that they can do all these things too. As WIRED puts it, "Call it open source rock 'n' roll. The mission of the band Poster Children is to give their fans the tools and inspiration to become as creative as they wanna be."

Salaryman: 1991-present. "Salaryman™ is a four-person BASEMENT™ music project. We employ the usage of analog and digital keyboards, samplers, and drum machines as well as real drums, guitar, and TV Broadcasts™ to create our music which is a style called BASEMENT™ (i.e. , music you play in your basement). The TV broadcasts ensure not only that each of our performances will be unique but also that each performance will contain an element that someone outside of the performance arena will be able to participate in. Our goal is to create a world where machines and people can live together in perfect understanding and harmony."

I play keyboard, bass, and TV Set in Salaryman and with my partner, co-authored the very irritating Karoshi E-CD. (copy available upon request.) Our third album is due out in mid 2006.

Bi-Weekly Column

For a hobby, I've been writing a bi-weekly column in The Hub, a local Champaign paper. I have been asked to write about anything I want, so I do. My ultimate goal here is to get better at writing.

On Minor Threat, Wikipedia.org, Beauty, Data Visualization, Abortion, and the Dalai Lama - July 21, 2005

lack of protein, wired,tiddlywiki, the critical path, moleskine - aug 11, 2005

The Kennedys, Lightbulbs, and Brownies, or ‘How I learned to stop worrying and love Art’ - aug 25, 2005

My baby, a target audience, an Offensive Word, and the Dead Kennedys - sep 01, 2005

Billy pilgrim, lawrence of arabia, bach and space - sep 15, 2005

Purge Festival and The Buying of More Things - Sep 30, 2005

the newer developments in science - oct13, 2005

my day today - oct 27, 2005

The Toddler, the c-word,the indian consulate and artspeak - nov 10, 2005

filling out the art thesis - nov 24, 2005

Pictures from india - dec 14, 2005

two wounded in babar - jan 05, 2005

Papers

Kaczmarski, Hank, Camille Goudeseune, Benjamin Schaeffer, Lance Chong, Rose Marshack, Lee Hendrickson, Jim Crowell, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, 2005. "Application Framework for CANVAS, The Virtual Reality Environment For Museums." Presented at EVA London 2005.

2000, Orland, B., and R. Marshack. Taj Mahal Cultural development District: Development Plan. CD-ROM. Ministry of Tourism, Government of Uttar Pradesh. Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Illinois, Urbana. Videotape and Information Media.

2003, Orland, B., and R. Marshack, A Walk Beside the Yamuna: Engaged Communication. Architecture+Design, India. (Refereed Journal)