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News
5/24/09 - Josh Marshall and I have started a group called Modest Machine. We do an all-improv Electro-Jazz-Fusion Miles Davis kind of thing. We play every other Tuesday at Tazza.
12/22/08 - Portfolio of my current work Added
11/11/07 - I've been playing with Metropolis lately - making people in Providence dance! We play Psycho-Electro-Acoustic-Islamo-Judaic-Dance-Surf-FreeJazz-Metal Groove Music. Contact me (email at the bottom of the page) if you want us to play.
We are:
Hannah Lewis - voice
Arvid Tomayko-Peters - trumpets / electronics
Josh Marshal - sax / toy flute / electronics
Nate Sloan - keys
Dave Harrington - bass
Ian Sims - drums
6/8/07 - I was on Living on Earth on NPR and PRI radio stations! Read and listen on the Living On Earth site.
A little About Me
Hello, I'm Arvid (a.k.a. KidVid). I'm a recent graduate of Brown University in computer music and multimedia and geology. I play trumpet, flugelhorn, T.O.O.B. and other unique digital and analog electronic instruments. I try to bring the improvisational free-energy of jazz and other acoustic music styles to electronic/digitally augmented music and instruments. So I build electronic instruments that facilitate spontaneous performance in many contexts and make unflinchingly spasmodic noises. I want a huge range of options to be available to me in an intuitive format when I improvise on stage. I'm also interested in creating music from scientific - specifically geologic - data to tell the Earth's story through music.
I perform with the Modest Machine, work with Brown New Music and perform solo/small group electronic works in and around Providence, such as the Pixilerations festival for FirstWorksProv. 
I make multimedia installations - the most recent of which is Climate Controlled - an interactive octaphonic sonic and visual installation based on 5.3 Million years of geologic data from deep ocean sediment cores. I'm working on a book/CD project with Italian Geologist Sandro Montanari making music from Holocene climate change and have written software to expedite the creation of geophonic music. I've played in the Brown University Jazz Band, the Brown Crossroads Ensemble, the Brown Afro-Latin Jazz Ensemble and the MEME Improv Ensemble. I was part of a cool quintet that played Jazz inspired by Funk, Jobim and Japanese Rock called ROBOTTO TAI [Japanese for 'the robots']. For the exhaustive and mostly useless details you can see my musical resumé!
I also design and implement artist websites and edit video and sound - I'm available to do these things at reasonable rates if you are interested in my services.
About Squish the Squid Productions
Squish the Squid Productions started in 1995 when my friend Jamie Martin and I cut our first tape as "The Screamers" on a Sony single cassette boom box. We screamed, spoke in bad Australian accents and played several instruments badly, creating a terrible cacophony. Thankfully, things have progressed since then. Take a listen. By the way, the squid's name is Squish, I do not want to squish him. I do not condone such cruelty to animals.