Music, Media, Bio links
My bandcamp page collects most of my discography.
My YouTube channel has lots of videos.
My instagram page has way too many photos.
(The captions have become a de facto blog of sorts.)
This Wikipedia entry provides an overview of my "career."
My podcast "Travel Stationary" explores my life and creative process. Available from Apple podcasts, Spotify, and as an iOS app.
My weekly radio show, Mild Bill's Radio Hour, every Thursday at 11pm. Schedule and current show.
Archive of past shows (just a list, with audio where possible)

Writing Portfolio
"Bill, you have it. You have the gift." -- Chris Strachwitz
My muckrack archive can be found here.
Cover story for latest Journal of TX Music History: here. (PDF)
I have written many cover stories for the San Antonio Current alt-weekly covering music, nature, and history.

Some of my favorite SA Current features:
History of SA Country Music , Butthole Surfers , Bongo Joe , White Shaman Preserve, Circumnavigation of SA, SA Garage Rock, Chulas Fronteras.

Also:
Impose Magazine, Impose Magazine #2, Impose Magazine #3
NPR/KQED, and NPR/KQED #2.
Silica Magazine multi-media feature.

Morton Critical Editions compendium book:
Mirror Maps - Vol. 1 - a complete collection of song lyrics (as of 2019), articles, and general hoo haw.

Studio
My studio is called Medium Green. Also known as Mild Bill's Place. It is small but special.
I specialize in recording live to 2" tape but can accomodate digital as well.
Have modular system to use, drum samples, piano, 1950s wurlitzer 140B, 1968 vox jaguar, neve mic pres, some nice guitars -- everything you need to make a great record.
Currently accepting bookings -- get in touch.
Look at photos here, here, and here.
My old studios, Big Orange and Baby Blue, were somewhat legendary DIY spots in recent-ancient history Austin.
Ask me about them -- I have a few stories.


Quick bio:
Former resident of Oakland, Portland, LA, Austin. Currently in my native San Antonio TX.
Eagle Scout, NOLS graduate, Nat'l merit scholar, BA - UT Plan II, MFA - Mills College, yadda yadda.
2001 - 2007 Founded and played in Sound Team, actually a very good band but, alas, also a major label cautionary tale
2006 Delivered a pizza to Michael Bolton.
2007 - 2012 Played in {{{SUNSET}}} (later just Sunset), toured the US endless. Worked as a teaching assistant and medical aide at the TX School for the Blind.
2010 Starred in Echotone, a film about Austin music. Some folks liked it.
2011 August 4th named Bill Baird day, city of Austin. (video)
2012 Moved to Oakland to become TA and master's candidate at the wonderful Mills College Center for Contemporary Music (RIP).
2012 Best New Musician, East Bay Express.
2013 Recipient of Frog Peak Collective Experimental Music Prize
2012 - 2016 "Hair Forest" - my own show at Berkeley Public Access TV.
2014 - 2021 Undertook numerous creative tech installations with friend and partner Taurin Barrera, including exhibits at Luminaria, Hopscotch, CA Academy of Sciences, Fort Mason, and more.
2015 Dresher Ensemble Artist-in-residence, culminating in 2nd public access opera, "Mundus Novus," debuted at the Switchboard Fest, Brava Theaeter in San Francisco.
2015 Released Earth into Aether in UK, which was named Rough Trade record of the month. Played some wonderful BBC shows, etc.
2015 - 2020 Drove internet taxi cab in San Francisco -- gave over 15,000 rides. Got projectile vomited on, assaulted, etc.
2018 Released only album produced by Super Deluxe, a pretty wonderful and sadly short lived media company. Got my own tv special. Still got the shirt.
2020 Moved to San Antonio and began writing for SA Current newspaper.
2021 Recipient Wittliff research grant through Texas State University
2021 Circumnavigated San Antonio on foot (nothing to sneeze at... city is very sprawl-y).
2022 TX Master Naturalist candidate
Along the way, released records through Parlophone, Capitol, Talkshow (Sony Red), Moon Glyph, Dangerbird, Pau Wau, St. Ives/Secretly Canadian, Curly Cassettes.

Quotes:
"In the sphere of psychedelic music, Bill Baird is without a doubt one of the top 2 or 3 songwriters in the world" - le Village Pop
"Psych-pop master craftsman" -- Spin Magazine
"A testament to the failure of the American educational system" - Roscoe Mitchell
"One of the last of the living rock n roll geniuses" - Tiny Mix Tapes (RIP)

Links (labels/friends/collaborators)
Moon Glyph
Dangerbird Records
Taurin Barrera
Gorilla VS Bear
Night Bloom Records
Jana Horn
Mills College CCM / Tape Music Center
Berkeley Public Access
Austin Leonard Jones
Curly Cassettes
Andrew Paul Davis
Gardener (dash lewis)
Jesse Woods
Joel Jerome
Jasper Leach

Links (other internet places worth exploring)
UBU web
Half Earth Project
Moog
The Face
PART
Kraftwerk
Smithsonian Archive of Folk Music
Light in the Attic
Handmade Electronic Music