Jib Kidder (performing moniker of Sean Schuster-Craig) is a songwriter, composer and sound artist from San Francisco, California. His music has been released in the US by the States Rights and Human Ear Music labels.

He is the unlikely combination of guitarist, samplist, beat-maker, DJ & sidewalk chalk artist. Growing up in Fayetteville Georgia, he got his start in instrumental southern rock group Heavy Medical Hardware. Through the group, Sean absorbed the down south guitar stylings of bluegrass performer Jimmy Young, deep local rap & soul history from bassist Matt Miller (director of bounce documentary Ya Heard Me?) and the savant home production techniques of drummer and composer Ben Lawless. These three strands would later come together to form JK’s unique and restless palette of styles.

For his release on Human Ear, entitled “Small Guitar”, he created a miniaturized Harry Partch planetarium using the sampled ploinks, licks, hits and misses of his electric guitar. His unobtrusive processing draws out a sparkling range of timbres; brittle and cosmic micro-rhythms reminiscent of gamelan, blues and funk. In stark contrast to the saturated beats of his instrumental hip-hop records, Small Guitar showcases the artist at his most minimal and introspective.