Music
Live Performance With Sanae Buck and Mieko Mitachi
Playing acoustic guitar and piano in a simple improvisation to accompany a dance performance.
Learning Guitar
My big news for 2017 is that I got a Telecaster. It was love at first sight and I've been practicing and finally picking up the study of chords and harmony that I left off when I was a teenager. more
Fist of Kindness
(L to R) David Gould (drums), Orin Buck (bass), Gary Heidt (guitar, vocals), Steven Dworkin (cello, accordion, vocals), Cassandra V Chopourian (trumpet, tenor guitar, vocals), Matt Metzgar (percussion, vocals), Richard Gross (banjo, vocals)
"literate Tom Waits-ish alt-country rockers" - New York Music Daily
"an art rock ensemble masquerading as a country western band" - East End Beacon
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Albums
The Beast Within (2016)
Electric Objects (2015)
Tender Buttons: OBJECTS by Gertrude Stein (2015)
The Thirteen Repentances of the Pistis Sophia (2012)
Ponderin' (2011)
The Dead and the Powerless (2009)
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"Objects"
A film by Gary Heidt of an opera by Fist of Kindness composed on a text by Gertrude Stein, performed by Van Reipen Collective - directed by Gary Heidt. From an (almost) all-acoustic instrumental production at Theater for the New City, New York NY, Oct. 2 - 5, 2014. Orin Buck on guitarrón.
