Industry	Sports or Recreation
Occupation	Bicycle Mechanic
Location	Portland, ORegon, United States
Introduction	Offset Needle Radius became a primary focus in February of 2008 as a vehicle for solo improvised experimental performance from a lifetime of underground punk rock and metal influences. To present a language of sound, influenced by current events and the instant, personally and globally. To sonically describe the emotions of the human experience, hopefully a shared experience between performer and audience; a moment of transcendence. The name derived from a condition found in some Chinese fabricated basic electronics where a dial is surrounded by a circular array of numbers or ticks, a name with far less mileage than that of the creator, Joshua Baker. To contact, email: offsetneedlesound(at)yahoo(dot)com
Interests	Improvised sound collage, improvised performance, home recording, experimental arts, sound installations, eccentric personalities, small old family cemeteries, experimental film and video, conceptual arts, bicycles, birds, community bread baking, alternative medicine, Montreal, Portland, Oregon, Pacific Northwest, Douglass Firs (trees), hot springs, natural beauty, pure, still, outside silence, home hacked electronics, survival, war ending, justice, true universal freedom, overcoming right wing fanaticism.
Favorite music	Fear, Gun Club, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Sonic Youth, Koji Asano, Oren Ambarchi, Sleep, Scratch Acid, Black Sabbath, Metallica (Cliff era), The Hidden Hand, At The Gates, Hawkwind, Sam Gopal, Motorhead, Feeders, Ramones, Flesheaters, Sacrilege UK. Lucifer's Friend, Uriah Heep, Muddy Waters, Howlin Woolf, The Wipers, Dead Moon, Poison Idea, Poison 13, Steel Pole Bathtub, Thrones, Melvins, Sunn0))), Popol Vuh, Amon Duul II, Kryzstov Pedereki, Bardo Pond, Harry Partch, Ken Nordine, Janice Mackeachern, Junior Wells, Some punk rock, experimental improvised sound organization, contemporary classical, doom metal, classic metal, 70's hard rock, psychedellic, kraut rock, strange, bizarre, unintentionally interesting sound, old traditional blues, Crank Sturgeon, Id M THeft Able, Walter WRight, Duck That! Skinny Vinny, birdorgan, Andrea Pensado,
Favorite books	Richard Brautigan, Charles Bukowsky, biographies, instructional books, political subjects,

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