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Roy Rendahl

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Since the age of 3 when he built his first model airplane, artistic expression has given Roy Al Rendahl great purpose in life. He was, and still is, always creating something. The many talents and accomplishments of this "little mad scientist" or "Mr. Wizard" whose actions and attitudes belie his age consist of the traditional forms of art like drawing, oil painting, photography, and more. Roy's many major triumphs include selling an oil painting to the Ben and Abby Grey Foundation collection at NYU, and having his Mac-computer-pixelated 8'x20' photograph mural featured as part of a highway beautification program in Fresno, California. In Las Vegas, he has had several photographs and oil paintings displayed in the new offices of Cirque du Soleil. Roy's love of color and light and the feeling of being limited by the range of colors available to the artist may have had some bearing on his branching out into other areas of creativity. At his long time "day job" as a mechanical machine design engineer (which is really commercial sculpture) he invented and patented one of the mechanisms used in a machine he designed. Through the years, no matter what else he was doing, music and sound played a part in his life. The music portion of his artistic talents started in the form of playing a little toy percussion set he got in grade school; in junior high he "upgraded" to cardboard drums. He also was interested in the bass, so he taught himself to play bass from a regular guitar book using a "fake" bass made from a piece of plywood for the body, matchsticks for the frets, and kite string for the strings; until he got his first "real" bass by mail order from Allied Radio (which later turned into Radio Shack) and began his music career. He built his first amp by combining two SAMS schematic diagrams, one from a church organ and one from a radio. It went into some really neat distortion and sound effects if you turned it up too far! In another early experiment, Roy also built an analog synthesizer out of a small electronic organ by installing a synthesizer integrated circuit chip and sound shaping controls. He also built a Leslie style rotating speaker system from a lamp shade, an old TV cabinet, and a sewing machine motor. Roy has been designing and building speaker systems ever since, including the DeadLine Array (DLA), which is described in his business plan for Hackerz Niteclub. Roy's professional music performance experience spans the '80s in the Winona, Minnesota area with a wide range of genres including psychedelic-jazz-rock, R&B, country rock, and pop in bands such as Blooze Union, Peppermint Love, Hot to Trot, Take 5, and The Barb Timm Band. The groups played in a variety of clubs and events; perhaps the hardest gig was at the Winona Athletic Club where they had to haul all their equipment and PA system up 3 flights of stairs. The most interesting was definitely when TBTB played Winona's Steamboat Days Parade. The R&B rock band's caravan presented quite a picture, performing throughout the parade route on a hay wagon pulled by an old black Caddy that said "Rascals Bar" on the sides. Behind them, a trailer carried the sound man and PA system, and yet another trailer behind that carried the generator to run it all. They were so loud that the marching bands had to keep the space of a block in between them in order to be heard by the judges. As loud as they were, the band could actually be seen even before they were heard due to Roy's powerful flashing lights directed forwards into the crowd from atop the hay wagon. Roy officially started recording other people during his tenure in the band, Changes, and did more with the band, Sweetwater, but actually began his crusade to "save the good music" on tape much earlier in high school. He has continued using these skills in the '90s through today with his audio recording, video production, and graphic arts / web design business, Trimordial Studio. Being a member of a band these days also puts all Roy's talents to good use. Playing the bass, collaborating on the creation of the songs' foundation, engineering them, and creating the artwork for the band's logo, website, and CD's are only a small part of what he does as the technical director of Poppermost. See www.Poppermost.com and www.Trimordial.com. Write to Roy at trimordial@thefaro.com. Or call his cell at 702-340-6748.