I’m an artist based in Victoria, BC. Since 2013. I’ve had played well over a hundred shows nationally, explored a plethora of genre-territory including electronic (broadly), free jazz, noise rock, hip-hop, folk, and ambient, made movies, and messed around in a broad variety of methods and mediums. I’ve always been preoccupied with capital-G Genre. My work is thus ‘Genre art’; the same way one talks about ‘Genre film’. Virtuosity is something I admire but do not aspire to. This is simply DIY play. In 2025, I will be releasing an album a month across my many projects.

Regularly, I release music under my own name. My 6th solo studio album, a dub-techno inspired release, Chain of Memories was the 37th most played album across Canadian community radio for the month in March 2022. I occasionally DJ as a way of sharing my electronic dance-floor-appropriate work.

I sometimes perform live doing free-form spoken-word screamo with Math Rock virtuoso drummer supreme i.o aka Maxwell Patterson. We opened for The Body together. Eventually, we will do an album in that style. Additionally, Maxwell and I have started a band called Really Loud Free Jazz wherein I play tenor sax, with a self-titled album produced by Jeremy Ugro released in September of 2024. We are now joined by Liliana Wilson of Coup D’Etat on the bass, and will have a record done as a trio soon enough.

I retired my first musical project, a hip-hop alias called Philip Morris, in 2022; I did 6 solo albums and one collab under this name. However, inspired by doing a silly BBL Drizzy freestyle for my pals, I revived PM and released my seventh album ILL PROBABLY STILL RAP WHEN IM FORTY in September 2024 followed by a collab record with Huddy called Ian in the Winter. In the interim, I started spirtual successor of sorts, a more singer-songwriting-oriented project called Perfect Match (also acroynmed PM) which is now a full-on band with Chris Stander, Yani Sahnoun, and Noah Leverton.

I used to front a improvisational noise-rock band called SCHOOLGIRL with Keenan Mittag-Degala (of Elan Noon & Loving fame) and Liam Crocker. We opened for Deafheaven, Daughters, and Freak Heat Waves, and collaborated with N0V3L, Arrington De Dionyso, Sister Blanche, and Katsura Yamauchi. I used to have a prolific experimental lofi project called Formidable Liquorice, which I estimate involved collaborations with over 50 people, which since evolved into my more-focused-but-still-playful eponymous work. Lastly, I have at least two secret bandcamps.

I host a radio show called Problem Child on CFUV 101.9 playing off-beat music. I occasionally conduct interviews for the radio including the likes of JG Thrilwell, Sudan Archives, Bif Naked, Freak Heat Waves, Jordan Castro, and dozens of others. You can find archives of these conversations on YouTube under the name Talk Talk w/JP. For all intents and purposes, the interviews were a Covid project, and after being ghosted by Spoon’s manager the day-of, I only conduct interviews on desperate request. Instead, I periodically host live experimental acts on my show as “Problem Child Presents…”

I have explored mediums outside of sound. For example, I hosted satirical anime panels, performed stand-up comedy, wrote a one-act play put on by an amateur theatre troupe once in Nanaimo called Yes Chef, directed & edited a cinema-verite film called No Bummer Summer with Sean Rea & Vinnie Crawford, I’ve acted in a number short films by Sean Rea, and continue on a durational project wherein myself and Reed LeBere review all 200 episodes of Sailor Moon. I made another vérité-esque film with John Ledingham called The Promised End that will be four-walled in December 2024 before releasing on YouTube shortly thereafter. John and I’s are currently in post-production on our next film, tentatively titled In the Land of Fish & Honey which is entirely fictional. You can find most of these projects on Reed & I’s YouTube channel More Lesser No Better. I have spotlighted the best of my non-musical work under the Projects & Films section of the site.

Nick Workman and I founded Destroyed Cinema + Music events in December 2024, which aims to bolster Victoria’s thriving DIY scene to include movies by putting on multi-medium and events and screening niche movies in underground locations. Visit our website for more on that.

I have a Google Doc filled with thousands of pages of writing I intend to one day self-publish, some of which you can find on my Wordpress, more is less is more is less. I’ve gotten a lot more active publshing stuff in 2025. I’ve also written a number of album reviews for the UVic student newspaper The Matlet. I will finish a novel one day.

Is variety the spice of life or have I spread myself to thin?