Originally from California, Bing Futch ("Mr. Dark") has been producing multimedia entertainment for over twenty years, starting in 1986 as a founding member of Christian techno-punk band Crazed Bunnyz and morphing through to the release of his documentary "On The Front Line: The Quantum Leap Weekend" (1992), shot in cooperation with the show's producers.

Moving to Florida in 1993, he began writing a portion of the attraction score for The Castle Of Miracles at Give Kids The World Village in Kissimmee, Florida. and also recorded an instrumental album entitled 70mm that received airplay on WMFE 90.7 FM and National Public Radio. On the video front, the eight-episode series "Toastin'" became one of cable's first reality shows in 1994 with its depiction of three friends and the changes they encounter over a four year span. In 1997, he served as composer and music director for the Stage Left Theater production "The Jungle Book: A Musical Adaptation" which ran for 66 shows. Later that year, he produced a multimedia art installation for The Orlando Museum Of Art called Teknodawn.


About this time, Bing began writing for a number of local and national magazines in support of independent original music. The thousands of CDs he received became part of the programming for his M4 Radio show "The 7th Day." It was during one such show that he met his future wife, Jae, when she requested some blues music. It was not long after this that the pair produced their first project, a five-minute dark comedy entitled "Meds" (2002), which was selected as one of 16 semi-finalists in a festival competition sponsored by the Entertainment Industry Incubator in Miami. His indie music column "Starvin'" is featured monthly in Connections Magazine and he also serves as a writer for the EPpy-award winning OrlandoCityBeat.com. In June of 2005, Bing began producing the first (and still the only) weekly podcast dedicated to Florida-state unsigned bands, AFI Radio-All Florida Indies.


Back in 1999, while on a cross-country promotional tour, the vision for Mohave, a dulcimer-driven Americana band, came to light. Today, the group plays regular shows at festivals, county fairs and venues throughout the state of Florida. Bing also tours solo and performs at events around the country. Bing and Jae Futch live in the heart of Orlando where they own and operate J.O.B. Entertainment Inc., continuing a life-long practice of creating music, words and images.

--Dean Rezzen


 

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