He has also conceived and produced on award-winning short film projects, "Pol Pot's Birthday" and "Dimmer," shown at Sundance Film Festival, Cannes Film Festival, and Berlin Film Festival.
2002 saw the release of an EP, Forty Winks with the Zincs, but the full band did not record together until the album dimmer, which was released by Chicago's own Thrill Jockey in 2005.
Low power TRIACs are used in many applications such as light dimmers, speed controls for electric fans and other electric motors, and in the modern computerized control circuits of many household small and major appliances.