Education
Rhode Island School of Design.
Rhode Island School of Design.
He is best known as the drummer and vocalist for the experimental noise rock band and for his graphic art As a vocalist for and Mindflayer, Chippendale eschews the usual microphone stand and conventional microphone, instead using a contact microphone. This microphone is then run through an effects processor to alter the sound further.
Chippendale often warbles or makes nonsensical sounds into the microphone, so the vocals typically come out extremely distorted and incomprehensible.
More recently, Chippendale has used a Lincolnshire 6 delay pedal to delay and repeat his vocals while drumming. Chippendale participated as drummer 77 in the 77 Boadrum performance which occurred on July 7, 2007, at the Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park in Brooklyn.
Chippendale performed drums on Björk"s 2007 album Volta. He also did a remix for Björk"s single "Declare Independence" under the alias.
Chippendale is also an artist and attended printmaking classes at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in the late 1990s but did not graduate.
He created the album art for all releases. In October 2006, Chippendale released the comic book Ninja, an art book and comic that incorporates simple action comics he drew as a child with more surreal work drawn as an adult. In 2007 he released Maggots, which was drawn ten years previously but had never been released.
Maggots is drawn over a Japanese book catalog, so Japanese characters appear in all the spaces that are not inked in by his pen.
His latest graphic novel is called "If n" Oof". In June 2010 an exhibit Fruiting Bodies of Chippendale"s artwork opened at the Cinders Gallery in Brooklyn.
Since May 2011, Chippendale has published a monthly comic in Mothers News, a monthly newspaper published in Providence, Rhode Island. (1999) 1 (2005) 2 (2006) 3: Metamorpus (2006) 4: All Aboard the Magic Pus (2008) Zero: Ultimate Beat Office (2009) split LP with Oozing Wound (2014).