Hi, I'm Kip Jones, a 27 year-old violinist from Duluth, Minnesota, USA. I started this site in 2002 to keep my friends and family updated while I'm traveling. Since then, it has become primarily an online archive of music that I've written and recorded, both alone and with friends. I encourage you to download and listen to as much of it as you can handle!

I've been a number of different places in the last few years. During these travels, I have blogged a good bit, although maybe not quite as regularly as I should have. The journal at blogspot contains observations from a nine-month motorcycle trip through North America, a six-month stint studying Hindustani raag sangeet in Bombay, as well as from the last two years, spent in South Korea with my wife, Noelle. We both have pages at flickr as well, full of various pictures from various trips.

Noelle and I are preparing for an odyssey of our own, starting this fall; as it stands we're planning to travel overland as much as possible through Central and South America, with a likely jump over to eastern Europe, and an eye on southeast Asia. For the record, I do realize what a lucky guy I am for finding such an adventurous partner.

I hope you enjoy what time you spend digging through the music, words, and images here. Sign the guestbook! Check out the new media player! And try not to get too confused by the wacky logo!

Regards ---

A note on the logo: Nols and I spent a weekend in Gyeongju, the seat of the Shilla dynasty (57 BCE - 935 CE), in Gyeongsangbukdo. During a visit to a museum, I stumbled across a 14-sided die, called the Mokjaenorigu (wood-play-shape), which outlines the rules for a thousand-year-old drinking game. I bought a replica of the die; while my friends and I have joked about it numerous times, we have yet to actually play the game.