David Ouimet is an American

United States

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 musician

Musician

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 and artist

Artist

An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...

. He was a band member of Cop Shoot Cop

Cop Shoot Cop

Cop Shoot Cop was a rock music group founded in New York City in 1987. They disbanded in 1996. The band were frequently classified as industrial rock, but were often quite different from many bands so dubbed, with a distinctive instrumental lineup that encompassed twin bass guitars, found metal...

, Motherhead Bug

Motherhead Bug

Motherhead Bug was a rock music group founded in 1989 in New York City by singer and trombone player David Ouimet and bass guitarist Tony Lee.-Band history:...

, Firewater

Firewater

Firewater is a US indie rock group founded by Tod A. in 1995. He describes them as a"wedding band gone wrong".After Tod left his previous group, Cop Shoot Cop, he quickly regrouped and formed Firewater to explore the styles of music Cop Shoot Cop had only hinted at, including klezmer, cabaret, ska,...

, and Sulfur but has since moved on to interests other than music.

He grew up in Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis, Tennessee

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 in a music oriented household. Having been introduced to synthesizers in his teenage years, he developed an interest in editing. He moved to Rhode Island

Rhode Island

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 where he developed a friendship with future band mate Tod Ashley and Jon Spencer.

In the early 1990s, Ouimet cofounded noise rock

Noise rock

Noise rock describes a style of post-punk rock music that became prominent in the 1980s. Noise rock makes use of the traditional instrumentation and iconography of rock, but incorporates atonality and especially dissonance, and also frequently discards usual songwriting conventions.-Style:Noise...

 group Cop Shoot Cop

Cop Shoot Cop

Cop Shoot Cop was a rock music group founded in New York City in 1987. They disbanded in 1996. The band were frequently classified as industrial rock, but were often quite different from many bands so dubbed, with a distinctive instrumental lineup that encompassed twin bass guitars, found metal...

. He played sampler

Sampler (musical instrument)

A sampler is an electronic musical instrument similar in some respects to a synthesizer but, instead of generating sounds, it uses recordings of sounds that are loaded or recorded into it by the user and then played back by means of a keyboard, sequencer or other triggering device to perform or...

 and keyboards, and left after their first album to form Motherhead Bug

Motherhead Bug

Motherhead Bug was a rock music group founded in 1989 in New York City by singer and trombone player David Ouimet and bass guitarist Tony Lee.-Band history:...

, with whom he sang and played trombone

Trombone

The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. Like all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player’s vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate...

. He's also recorded and toured with Foetus

Foetus (band)

Foetus is the primary musical outlet of industrial music pioneer J. G. Thirlwell. Until 1995 the band underwent various name changes, all including the word foetus. Monikers adopted at different times include Foetus Under Glass, You've Got Foetus On Your Breath and Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel...

 and Swans

Swans (band)

Swans are an influential American post-punk band initially active from 1982 to 1997, led by singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Michael Gira. The band was one of the few groups to emerge from the early 1980s New York No Wave scene and stay intact into the next decade. Formed by Gira in...

.

Ouimet's illustrations of creepy, biped

Biped

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al, fez

Fez (clothing)

The fez , or tarboosh is a felt hat either in the shape of a red truncated cone or in the shape of a short cylinder made of kilim fabric. Both usually have tassels...

-capped insect

Insect

Insects are a class of living creatures within the arthropods that have a chitinous exoskeleton, a three-part body , three pairs of jointed legs, compound eyes, and two antennae...

 creatures (usually wielding scimitar

Scimitar

A scimitar is a backsword or sabre with a curved blade, originating in Southwest Asia .The Arabic term saif translates to "sword" in general, but is normally taken to refer to the scimitar type of curved backsword in particular.The curved sword or "scimitar" was widespread throughout the Muslim...

s or smoking hookah

Hookah

A hookah A hookah(Gujarati હૂકાહ) A hookah(Gujarati હૂકાહ) (Hindustani: हुक़्क़ा (Devanagari, (Nastaleeq) huqqah) also known as a waterpipe or narghile, is a single or multi-stemmed (often glass-based) instrument for smoking in which the smoke is cooled by water. The tobacco smoked is referred to...

s) were featured on Motherhead Bug's singles and album, and he has continued his career as an illustrator with Robert D. San Souci

Robert D. San Souci

Robert D. San Souci is a multiple award winning children's book author, residing in the San Francisco Bay Area. He often works with his brother, Daniel San Souci, who is a children's book illustrator. He was a consultant to Disney Studios and was instrumental in the production of the film Mulan,...

's Dare to be Scared

Dare to be Scared

Dare to Be Scared: Thirteen Stories to Chill and Thrill is a 2003 children's horror short story collection by Robert D. San Souci and illustrated by David Ouimet, consisting of thirteen stories.-1. Nighttown:...

series and Nancy Etchmendy's Cat In Glass and other Tales of the Unnatural.

Discography

Cop Shoot Cop

Cop Shoot Cop

Cop Shoot Cop was a rock music group founded in New York City in 1987. They disbanded in 1996. The band were frequently classified as industrial rock, but were often quite different from many bands so dubbed, with a distinctive instrumental lineup that encompassed twin bass guitars, found metal...

Year	Name	Ref
1989	Headkick Facsimile
1989	PieceMan EP PieceMan EP PieceMan EP is a three-song EP released by the Experimental band Cop Shoot Cop in 1989. The record was limited to only 1000 pressings. However, the songs "Disconnected 666" and "Eggs for Rib" would be rerecorded for their debut album while "RBT. Tilton Handjob" would appear on the 1994 re-issue of...
1990	Consumer Revolt Consumer Revolt Consumer Revolt is the full-length debut of the Experimental band Cop Shoot Cop.- Track listing :# "Low.Com.Denom." - 2:21# "She's Like A Shot" - 3:46# "Waiting for the Punchline" - 3:46# "Disconnected 666" - 2:18# "Smash Retro!" - 1:42...
1993	Ask Questions Later Ask Questions Later - Accolades :- Personnel :Cop Shoot Cop* Tod Ashley – vocals, bass guitar, drums* Jim Coleman – sampler, mixing* Jack Natz – bass guitar, drums* Phil Puleo – drums, percussionAdditional musicians and production...
1994	Release Release (Cop Shoot Cop album) -Personnel:Cop Shoot Cop*Tod Ashley – vocals, bass guitar*Jim Coleman – sampler, piano*Steven McMillen – guitar, trumpet*Jack Natz – bass guitar, vocals, harmonica*Phil Puleo – drums, percussionAdditional musicians and production...

Motherhead Bug

Motherhead Bug

Motherhead Bug was a rock music group founded in 1989 in New York City by singer and trombone player David Ouimet and bass guitarist Tony Lee.-Band history:...

Year	Name	Ref
1993	Zambodia Zambodia Zambodia is the only studio album by the American experimental music ensemble Motherhead Bug, released on October 15, 1993 through Pow Wow Records...

Firewater

Year	Name	Ref
1996	Get Off the Cross, We Need the Wood for the Fire Get Off the Cross, We Need the Wood for the Fire -Personnel:Firewater*Tod Ashley – vocals, bass guitar, acoustic guitar, bouzouki, production*Duane Denison – guitar*Yuval Gabay – drums, djembe, tambourine*Kurt Hoffman – saxophone, clarinet, accordion*Jim Kimball – drums...
1998	The Ponzi Scheme The Ponzi Scheme -Personnel:Firewater*Tod Ashley – vocals, bass guitar, production*George Javori – drums*Ori Kaplan – guitar*Tim Otto – saxophone*Hahn Rowe – violin*Paul Wallfisch – piano, organAdditional musicians and production...

Sulfur

Year	Name	Ref
1998	Delirium Tremens Delirium Tremens (album) -Personnel:Sulfur*Michele Amar – vocals, musical saw, sampler, programming, keyboards , production*Tony Corsano – drums, percussion*Fiona Doherty – bass guitar*Nick Heathen – piano, sampler, recording*Dan Joeright – drums...

Other appearances

Year	Name	Artist	Ref
1992	Hunter's Moon	Of Cabbages and Kings Of Cabbages and Kings Of Cabbages and Kings is an American Noise rock band from Chicago, Illinois. Its name is a quote from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass.-Band history:...
1992	Male Male (album) Male is a live album by Foetus in Excelsis Corruptus Deluxe. It records the Foetus live performance of November 3, 1990 in Manhattan's famed CBGB nightclub...	Foetus in Excelsis Corruptus Deluxe Foetus (band) Foetus is the primary musical outlet of industrial music pioneer J. G. Thirlwell. Until 1995 the band underwent various name changes, all including the word foetus. Monikers adopted at different times include Foetus Under Glass, You've Got Foetus On Your Breath and Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel...
1997	York (First Exit to Brooklyn)	The Foetus Symphony Orchestra Foetus (band) Foetus is the primary musical outlet of industrial music pioneer J. G. Thirlwell. Until 1995 the band underwent various name changes, all including the word foetus. Monikers adopted at different times include Foetus Under Glass, You've Got Foetus On Your Breath and Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel...
1998	Brooklyn Bank	Here
1998	Swans Are Dead Swans Are Dead Swans Are Dead is a double live album by Swans. It was released in 1998 and was recorded in 1995 and 1997 on the band's final tours.The setlists of this era in the Swans live show were probably the most varied in terms of chronology...	Swans Swans (band) Swans are an influential American post-punk band initially active from 1982 to 1997, led by singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Michael Gira. The band was one of the few groups to emerge from the early 1980s New York No Wave scene and stay intact into the next decade. Formed by Gira in...