Eric "the" Taylor

Age: 33

Residence: Rochester

Jobs: Artist, musician and owner of two
Abbott's Frozen Custards.

Artistic influences: Brian Eno. "He's best known for producing
Talking Heads and U2 records, but he also is very successful in
the visual arts. Specifically, large installations like this. They're
found in airports and so forth around the world."

A popular public installation: The Piano Garden:
Possible Musics Through Environmental Decomposition once
located at Atlantic and University avenues. "I left a piano out
to basically rot in the four seasons." At different points of
decomposition, Taylor says there were "sounds," although not
audible, from the piano. "A lot of my (public) work is deconstructive,
which means it doesn't have a long life." The "sounds" from the
piano were the different stages the instrument
was going through, he says.

Bands/Artists: Performed with, member of, or leader
Armand Schaubroek
Black Olive
Doped The Horse
Empty Grave
Figure
Hit
Alex Kelley
Jen Kerner
Tony Levin
Jerry Marotta
Malcolm Moore
MDG
Nature Waste Nothing
Seen and Not Seen