Sound designer, percussionist, composer, archivist, and record label operator living in NYC. His gesturalistic drumming style reaches for the pause in music through textural possibilities, as well as pointillist punctuations. He has performed solo and group works in Japan and in the U.S. with such visionaries as Jim O'Rourke, Ikue Mori, Toshimaru Nakamura, Nagisa Nite, John Zorn, Okkyung Lee, and Neil Michael Hagerty (to name a few). Since 1998, Tim's record label, Quakebasket, has released records by Angus MacLise, Minamo, On Fillmore, Michael Schumacher, and Glenn Kotche. His sound design work has been heard around the world in television commercials, and in the film Hearts In Atlantis. Other recent projects include drumming for Tzadik recording artist Raz Mesinai, releasing a duo cd of percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani and the late bassist Peter Kowald, releasing a trio cd of Marina Rosenfeld, Toshio Kajiwara, and Barnes himself, recording music for both the Avant and Erstwhile record labels, and editing/mastering archival recordings of Henry Flynt and the "American Avant-Garde's best kept secret", Christopher Tree. "the missing piece of the New York avant-garde puzzle." - Time Out, NYC Discography: * ALL ACOUSTICS (quakebasket) | 2001 with Glenn Kotche duo- THE FERN EMERGES (cubic music) | 2002 * with Glenn Kotche duo- DOMO-DOMO vinyl only (quakebasket) | 2000