Dan Rathbun

Dan Rathbun is a musician, instrument builder, and sculptor of sound. Having spent 12 years as a core member of the rock circus "Idiot Flesh" and 8 with "Charming Hostess" he now plays with Sleepytime Gorilla Museum. Sleepytime employs several of his self-made musical instruments. Dan co-owns Polymorph Recording and has produced and recorded countless CD's and records in a wide range of styles. Dan has worked with Shinichi Iova-Koga since 1996 and is a founding member of the performance collective known as inkBoat (formerly Uro Teatr Koku).

Dan Rathbun is a musician, instrument builder, and sculptor of sound. Having spent 12 years as a core member of the rock circus "Idiot Flesh" and 8 with "Charming Hostess" he now plays with Sleepytime Gorilla Museum. Sleepytime employs several of his self-made musical instruments. Dan co-owns Polymorph Recording and has produced and recorded countless CD's and records in a wide range of styles.

Dan has worked with Shinichi Iova-Koga since 1996 and is a founding member of the performance collective known as inkBoat (formerly Uro Teatr Koku). His mission with inkBoat is to employ his knowledge of sound reproduction technology to create instruments and sound generation devices, which inspire the imagination visually, sonically, and choreographically. Discography: Idiot flesh: final album; upcoming--- producion, engineering, composition, playing Sleepytime Gorilla Museum:"Of natural science" upcoming---producion, engineering, composition, playing Charming hostess:"Punch" upcoming---producion, engineering, playing Faun Fables:"Transit Rider" upcoming---producion, engineering, playing Faun Fables:"FamilySongs" 2004---producion, engineering, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum:"LIVE" 2003---producion, engineering, composition, playing Jewlia Isenberg's "Trilectic" 2002---producion, engineering, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum:"Grand opening and closing" 2001---producion, engineering, composition, playing Idiot Flesh: Fancy: 1997---producion, engineering, composition, playing Charming Hostess: Eat: 1997 ---producion, engineering, playing Idiot Flesh: "Twitch": 1996---producion, engineering, composition, playing Idiot Flesh: The Nothing Show: 1995---producion, engineering, composition, playing Idiot Flesh:"tales of instant knowledge and sure death" 1991---producion, engineering, composition, playing Acid Rain: "We Were All Very Worried":1986---producion, composition, playing He has composed, sound designed, performed, built set pieces and instruments for the following companies and shows: Faun Fables: Transit Rider inkBoat: Onion inkBoat: Cockroach inkBoat: Falling Dust (performances in Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, and San Francisco): 1999 inkBoat: Rubber Dogs (Yerba Buena Gardens, SF): 1999 inkBoat: Onion Sketch (Theatre of Yugen, SF): 1999 Jo Kreiter: Fly (Theatre Artaud, SF): 1999 Uro Teatr Koku: Dying, Laughing (various SF Bay Area performances): 1997 Uro Teatr Koku: Desert Body (various SF Bay Area performances): 1996 Uro Teatr Koku: Mother's Tongue (site specific performance, SF Street Festival): 1996 Uro Teatr Koku: Mizu (Yerba Buena Gardens): 1996 User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License and may also be available under the GNU FDL..