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After five years (and counting) of making instrumental music as Boarding School I've returned to the land of lyrics with Lovers of the Arctic Circle and a proper solo debut album Lonely Sometimes
Thirteen Songs about former lovers, former bandmates, former cities, and even former versions of myself. It's an eclectic mix of singer-songwriter indie folk, shoegaze and art noise, occasion lapses into electroclash and lofi industrial pop. It's a collection that worked a s a whole but was recorded in multiple sessions (Carborro/Chapel Hill, Seattle, Portland, Reykjavik, & Honolulu) and mixed recently here in Hawaii. some songs are new born, mere months old and some would be old enough to vote.

Lonely Sometimes is out Friday December 13 from Le Garçon Sale Records. Pre-order now!

The third pre-release single/ep from my Honolulu-based shoegaze project Lovers of the Arctic Circle
Featuring the single "Basic" out NOW from Le Garçon Sale Records

LP "Lonely Sometimes" out 12-13-19

Here's a quick little visualizer to hold you over until the official videos are released
and get the ep pay-what-you here now via Bandcamp and Le Garçon Sale Records .

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Survivor's Guilt the debut single/ep from Lovers of the Arctic Circle will first be available exclusively pay-what-you-will via Bandcamp 
It's a fairly dramatic departure from Boarding School stylistically, sonically dissonant and melodic LOTAC is a mix of lofi folk, shoegaze, bedroom singer-songwriter, and art noise. The debut album Lonely Sometimes will be released on December 13th via Le Garçon Sale Records

Check out the B-sides Nova Vox and a cover of Marianne Faithfull's The Mystery of Love after the jump.

While Boarding School is on a brief hiatus I found myself writing more traditional singer-songwriter fare and exploring new sonic pallets and suddenly I had a whole record. Actually I had a whole record and an ep/single. Lovers of the Arctic Circle's debut ep Survivor's Guilt drops on September 13th followed by the full album Lonely Sometimes on December 13. Celebrating being stuck on an island for a few years with some gloomy emotional shoegaze.


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Will, Portland OR 2019 -15 Model : Will August      Set : Iain Chester ©2019

I'm very excited to be directing Slipping by Daniel Talbott this fall at Defunkt Theatre in Portland, Oregon.  More news to come xoxo

Self described "single Dad, no kids" Michael Wheeler is a wildly popular Instagram model and humorist and since he currently resides in Portland OR where I was spending several weeks directing a play this fall. I decided to meet up with him and shoot a series of surreal, sexy, and slightly somber portraits on my rare off day. 

someone politely said my Boarding School work sounds like classy stoner music so with that "compliment" in mind I give you the album version of Try and it's chill out, hypnotic, kaleidoscopic new video. Enjoy! 🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄   

My work with Defunkt Theatre continues in the 2017-2018 season !This fall I will be directing Insignificance by Terry Johnson at Defunkt in my former home of Portland, Oregon.  and as Artistic Director-at-large I'm proud to announce our commitment to access and inclusiveness has never been stronger :

Beginning with our 2017/18 Season all individual show tickets are pay-what-you-can!  Accessibility is a core value at Defunkt, and we are proud to expand our pay-what-you-can policy to all performances.  We live and breathe for great theater, and we want the work we do to be available to EVERYONE.  Thank you to our generous longtime supporters for making this move possible.  Great things are in store in the year ahead: we will see you at the theater!

Read the full season announcement below!

Try remix ep is out now everywhere so GET IT!  Featuring the single Try (from  A Marbled Swarm, A Hornet's Tongue)  and remixes by DJTX, E. Chuthers, Reykjavík Haze and     Saint Caedmon along with a radically reworked new recording of In The Cities Where Our Lovers Dream recorded this past winter in Iceland.


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Behold! the brand spanking new video for  Wrong by Boarding School !!! 
A surreal slow motion cascade of candy colored animals offer the viewer a hypnotic break from the doldrums of their everyday lives. Wrong is the opening track to A Marbled Swarm, A Hornet's Tongue available now from Le Garçon Sale Records.

with the release of my new album A Marbled Swarm, A Hornet's Tongue I've given in to streaming services and released select records from my back catalog . Enjoy

Domesticated Animals (Amsterdam, Tiger,Tiger 01  © 2017)

 Decided to resurrect the Mythical Beast/Domesticated Animals series from 2012 (now just titled Domesticated Animals (and designated by city) These were shot in a surprisingly cold winter getaway to Amsterdam in February 2017. 

A brand new video debut!  A Marbled Swarm, A Hornet's Tongue is a witchy, grimy, hypnotic throwback to 90's  era music videos you'd obsess over late night on MTV's 120 Minutes program. Shot on location in southern Iceland, it is teh title track from Boarding School's brand new album.

NEW ALBUM OUT NOW !!! Get it HERE

A Marbled Swarm, A Hornet's Nest" is the sophomore album and yet third full length release from Boarding School following Mute Songs Vols 1 & 2. Inspired by the work of controversial author Dennis Cooper as well being the first Boarding School written and recorded domestically in the United States in Klaus-Vineyard's newly adopted home town of Seattle Washington.

ALL PROCEEDS FROM THIS ALBUM WILL GO TO PLANNED PARENTHOOD.

Electric Sheep is the ambient/artnoise composition that will provide the score to a new video installation work later this year.  it was recorded and remixed during the same sessions as the upcoming    "A Marbled Swarm, A Hornet's Tongue" (out 01-13-2017 on Le Garçon Sale Records). The 48 min sound-design piece runs the gamut from anxiety-inducing dissonance to hypnotic late night trip-hop and back again.

It's available to stream now and for download on February 03

  " Klaus-Vineyard and the cast have honored Mac’s play, but kicked it up a notch with their with great attention to making the characters’ internal conflicts seem real. Access is a theme around which much of Taylor Mac’s work revolves. Defunkt lets you in for a while to a version of Mac’s past, through a joy ride of the transformative power of play. " -Oregon Artswatch

 M/JOHN/W  is the latest release from Boarding School on Le Garçon Sale Records . M/JOHN/W originally appeared as part of the score for Defunkt Theatre's multiple award nominated production of Cock by Mike Bartlett . The ambient sound design composition appears here in a slightly reworked form.   You can grab a copy here, it's pay what you will as always!

Bedroom Series (David no. 10)  ©2016

 Actor and writer David for the bedroom series.   David and I have worked together on numerous theatre productions over the last decade and was a pleasure to finally get him in front of my lens wrapping up the bedroom series. 

In Bloom 02 ©2016

A new series taking low-res archival and unused photos from my past work and manipulating and abstracting them with an eye towards graphic design and graffiti.   

Bedroom Series (Clifton no. 35)  ©2016

 After appearing in two back to back critically acclaimed stage productions (Cock by Mike Bartlett & the controversial masterpiece Blasted by Sarah Kane) up and coming actor Clifton  tries out a new role as model for the Bedroom series. A Midwesterner relocated to the Pacific Northwest Clifton is a talented actor on the rise and we look forward to his continued success in the near future.

Passages (Clifton no. 01) ©2016

      Actor Clifton  has had quite the year with the lead roles in Cock by Mike Bartlett and  most recently in the critically acclaimed production of Blasted by Sarah Kane (both staged at Defunkt Theatre).  A gifted and tremendously talented actor ( and first time model) one of the final participants of the Passages and Bedroom series which comes to it's conclusion this month.