Gideon continued to develop this exuberant, inclusive sonic language at Wesleyan University under the mentorship of musical legend Anthony Braxton.  Unquenchable curiosity found the the artist exploring classic country, bluegrass and Americana in Virginia, as well as other art forms back in the city, culminating in the production of an original feature-length movie combining live action, animation, music and experimental video techniques for his senior thesis at Wesleyan.   

After completing his major in musical composition and performance at Wesleyan, Gideon was invited to join Chicago's infamous Texas Ballroom artists' collective.  Populated by notable painters, video artists, musicians, actors, performance artists and curators, The Texas Ballroom presented Gideon with another vibrant intersection of expressive forms. While there, Gideon formed the experimental hip hop-country-rock- performance art band Princess with Michael O'Neil (Men).   

In 2007, Gideon released two solo albums ("Welcome Song" and "Flight of the Liophant") on Sickroom Records. The albums introduced Gideon's inventive new musical form and showed it was possible to join disparate elements and traditions while avoiding the pitfalls of co-option.  

In 2008, Gideon debuted his multimedia opera "Video Musics."  The work combined line drawing, charcoal, collage and claymation animation techniques with recorded music and live performance.  The artist toured the critically-acclaimed piece throughout the United States and Europe, including performances at the Baltimore Museum of Art, HBC Gallery (Berlin), Galerie D21 (Leipzig), Fleche D'Or (Paris).  Video Musics was released as a DVD+CD set in the US (Sickroom) and the EU (Africantape).  

The visual aesthetic of “Video Musics” gave hints of what was to come in later work.  Gideon’s exuberant approach to integrating diverse elements manifests in a visual style that is both highly accessible and strongly psychedelic.   A patchwork of simple techniques combined with bold use of lighting and color led New York Magazine called the music and visuals “operatic” and the Willamette Week to call the work a “visually-explosive double scoop of candied bubble gum ice cream.”    

On the strength of the original piece, The Regional Arts and Culture Council of Oregon funded Gideon's second video opera, "Video Musics II: Sun Wu-Kong."  Video Musics II premiered at Disjecta in Portland, Oregon in 2010, and toured extensively in the US and EU.  The piece has been performed over 100 times in nine countries, at venues including the The Santa Fe Art Institute,  Hendershot Gallery (NYC), Pittsburgh Flimakers, Open Space (Victoria, BC), The Lab (San Francisco), Glazart (Paris), Kawenga (Montpelier), Sudpol (Luzerne), Centre d'Art Bastile (Grenoble).   The Confucius Institutes of Portland State University, SUNY Stony Brook, and University of Oklahoma specially recognized Gideon's work for its unique celebration and modernizing treatment of Chinese culture, and its thoughtful integration of an ancient text with hyper-modern expressive elements.  Video Musics II was released on DVD+vinyl in the US (Slowtrain) and the EU (Africantape).  

Gideon's body of work has been called  "mind-boggling...completely unique...weird and gorgeous" (Portland Mercury), "the ultimate adult cartoon" (Willamette Week),  "adroit" (Flagpole),  and "eccentric like Animal Collective and Beck...a carnival of sound" (SPIN).    Gideon has toured with Dan Deacon and played with Barr, Marnie Stern, tUnE yArDs, Parts and Labor, Zs, Matt and Kim, among others.