[3][4] The Golden Arm Trio has released four CDs, including Why the Sea is Salt[5] and The Tick-Tock Club,[6][7] and performed across the United States.
In 2003, he composed a piano score for Richard Linklater's documentary short Live from Shiva's Dance Floor, and subsequently also the score for Linklater's 2006 film A Scanner Darkly, which featured acoustic instruments and electric guitar processed through computer effects, and was named "Best Soundtrack of the Decade" by Cinema Retro magazine.
[12] He has also composed and performed several live scores for silent films, including Battleship Potemkin (1925), Nosferatu (1922), Wings (1927), Metropolis (1927) and Alfred Hitchcock's The Lodger (1927).
[14] He simultaneously developed a relationship with the Salvage Vanguard Theater, working with Ruth Margraff on Cry Pitch Carrolls (1999), the first in a series of collaborations, and The Intergalactic Nemesis (2000), which split off from the company and toured internationally for nearly a decade.
[2] He has also collaborated several times with site-specific choreographer Allison Orr from Forklift Danceworks, starting in 2009 with Trash Dance, which was also the subject of a making-of documentary by Andy Garrison.