Although my personal tastes in music are extremely varied including everything from dub reggae to Stravinsky I found that jazz and jazz-fusion was generally the most suitable during my live street paintings. This was because the music never repeats itself which allowed me to get lost in the solos with free and endlessly innovative brush strokes. In addition to this creative inspiration I also discovered that this music, although not particularly mainstream, really affected people. I noticed that a lot of different people were really interested in these funky instrumentals. Many people, of all sorts of subcultures including hip-hop, rave, and rock stopped to ask me what was on the stereo.

One of my favorite things (hah-hah) was to blast the experimental John Coltrane or the vicious Frank Zappa “Plastic People” in the middle of a busy crowd of commercial shoppers. I also remember cranking some heavy tunes at Toronto’s City Hall during the annual art fair…Oh those were some good times. At any rate the music was a really important part in my little attempt to recreate reality and it was nice to be included in a magazine dedicated that art form rather than the visual medium.