Mind Over Mirrors was founded by Jaime Fennelly in 2010 after living for three years on a remote island in the Salish Sea of Washington State and moved to Chicago. There he made & released albums with a number of labels, including Paradise of Bachelors, Immune,
Hands in the Dark,
Aguirre, Gift Tapes and Digitalis. Beginning as an Indian harmonium & synthesizer solo, it evolved over the years to include Haley Fohr as a duo, then as an ensemble with Janet Bean, Jim Becker & Jon Mueller for the MCA Chicago commissioned Bellowing Sun. All along the way, Fennelly forged an onging visual conversation with artist Timothy Breen.
In the early 2000's, Fennelly co-founded the iconoclastic group Peeesseye (with guitarist Chris Forsyth and drummer/visual artist Fritz Welch) in Brooklyn and fostered a close collaborative relationship with celebrated dance artist Miguel Gutierrez. Fennelly received his MFA from Bard College in 2006, where he studied music and sound with
Maryanne Amacher,
Richard Teitelbaum, David Berhman, and
Pauline Oliveros, among other sonic and visual luminaries. After living in Chicago for 10 years, Fennelly relocated to the Blue Hill Peninsula of Maine in late-2019 to rebuild a 1970s passive solar house and repair marine electrical systems. In 2022, he moved again to the Piedmont of North Carolina, where he is a founding member of Setting, with Nathan Bowles and Joe Westerlund, and has been establishing and operating a small ecologically-focused farm called Riparia Gardens.
