Venetian Snares

His 2005 release Rossz Csillag Alatt Született combined breakbeats with orchestral samples, and was released to critical acclaim, helping bring the artist and genre into popularity within the experimental electronic music community. Funk has been a very prolific musician, often releasing several records each year, sometimes on several different record labels, including Planet Mu, Hymen, Sublight, and his own imprint Timesig, and also under different aliases, including Last Step, Snares Man!, Snares, and Speed Dealer Moms, although there have been fewer releases in recent years. He has also explored other electronic genres such as glitch, IDM, modern classical and acid techno.

Funk began producing music at least as early as 1992, when he was experimenting with several 'ghetto blasters': I'd use a bunch of ghetto blasters playing all at once to play different sounds I'd recorded with some shitty ghetto blaster. Most of my sources I'd get riding around on my bicycle and just listening for interesting sounds. I'd use garbage bins and streetlights and anything else I could find that was hollow or metallic to bang out rhythms on. Then I'd set up all the ghettos and record them all playing into that same ghetto blaster. Then I'd play a bunch of those tapes all at the same time and record that and so on. Then I would do cut-ups or pause-ups of those tapes to create a more startling rhythmic effect. A strange ritual in retrospect. I somehow came across this looping delay pedal that would hold a 2-second sample. This pedal coupled with the ghetto blaster experiments really changed my life.Funk then got an Amiga 500 computer, where he initially produced music through a music tracker, OctaMED. He formed the name 'Venetian Snares' after '...writing a track with really fast snare rolls that sounded like scraping a stick across a grate or running a pencil down venetian blinds in a distracted classroom'. He would self-release several cassettes during the 1990s, releasing his first three studio albums Spells, Subvert! and Rorschach Stuffocate all on cassette. He released the 1999 12-inch EP, Greg Hates Car Culture, followed by a split album with Stunt Rock, Fuck Canada Fuck America, and more EPs in the next year 2000, including Salt, 7 sevens.med, Shitfuckers!, and his fourth studio album, printf("shiver in eternal darkness/n");. Funk then moved to using a PC sometime before 2000, producing music in MED Soundstudio, a Windows port of OctaMED.

After hearing Greg Hates Car Culture while browsing a Minneapolis record store, Mike Paradinas (also known as μ-Ziq) immediately signed Funk on to his record label Planet Mu, leading to three releases for the label in 2001, a collaboration album with Speedranch, Making Orange Things, a 7-inch EP, Defluxion, and a full-length album, Songs About My Cats. In addition, he also released Doll Doll Doll, as well as split 12-inch with Cex and a raggacore 7-inch as Snares Man!, all in the same year. The Snares Man! 7-inch has been cited as influential in the development of raggacore. The following year, 2002, Funk released three full-length albums, Higgins Ultra Low Track Glue Funk Hits 1972–2006, 2370894 (under Vsnares), and Winter in the Belly of a Snake, plus a 15-minute limited edition EP, A Giant Alien Force More Violent & Sick Than Anything You Can Imagine. 2003 saw the release of The Chocolate Wheelchair Album, Find Candace, a 7-inch EP Badminton, two split 7-inch EPs, one with Fanny under BeeSnares, and the other with Phantomsmasher, and an experimental collaboration album with Hecate, Nymphomatriarch. Following 2004, Funk released Huge Chrome Cylinder Box Unfolding; three EPs, Horse And Goat, Infolepsy, and Moonglow/This Bitter Earth; and a remix of Doormouse's Skelechairs. During this time period, Funk started using Cubase next to MED.

Funk reached out to fans in 2015 for financial assistance in light of undisclosed circumstances. After an outpouring of support, he released a "thank you" album in appreciation. Funk released a new album on February 19, 2016, called Traditional Synthesizer Music. This album was the product of Funk's experimentations with modular synthesizers, and was created exclusively on modular synthesizer hardware. In 2017, Funk announced a collaboration with Daniel Lanois. This was recorded in Toronto and released in 2018 as Venetian Snares x Daniel Lanois. In 2025, Funk released his first new solo material since 2018, the single Drums, as part of a Planet Mu 30 year anniversary compilation album. Later in that year, he contributed drum programming to Spanish singer Rosalía's song "Reliquia", the second track off her third studio album Lux.

Funk is well known for using odd time signatures, especially 74. For instance, the track "Szamár Madár" from Rossz Csillag Alatt Született uses a sample from Edward Elgar's Cello Concerto, edited into a 74 time signature. The album Thank You for Your Consideration also employs unusual meters instead of the 44 time used in most electronic music.

Fake, Impossible. (1997, self-release) Spells (1998, self-release) Subvert! (1998, self-release) Rorschach Stuffocate (1999, self-release) printf("shiver in eternal darkness/n"); (2000, Isolate Records; 2013 re-issue, self-release) Songs About My Cats (2001, Planet Mu) Doll Doll Doll (2001, Hymen Records) Higgins Ultra Low Track Glue Funk Hits 1972–2006 (2002, Planet Mu) Winter in the Belly of a Snake (2002, Planet Mu) The Chocolate Wheelchair Album (2003, Planet Mu) Huge Chrome Cylinder Box Unfolding (2004, Planet Mu) Winnipeg Is a Frozen Shithole (2005, Sublight Records) Rossz Csillag Alatt Született (2005, Planet Mu) Meathole (2005, Planet Mu) Cavalcade of Glee and Dadaist Happy Hardcore Pom Poms (2006, Planet Mu) My Downfall (Original Soundtrack) (2007, Planet Mu) Detrimentalist (2008, Planet Mu) Filth (2009, Planet Mu) My So-Called Life (2010, Timesig) Live at WTW 07 (AKA Return of the Snare) – June 15, 2001 (2013, Addict Records) My Love Is a Bulldozer (2014, Planet Mu) Thank You for Your Consideration (2015, self-released) Traditional Synthesizer Music (2016, Planet Mu) She Began to Cry Tears of Blood Which Became Little Brick Houses When They Hit the Ground (2018, self-released) Greg Hates Car Culture (2019, Timesig)1 ^Note 1This album was originally released as a 1999 EP, but was reissued in 2019 as an album