I began learning to play guitar at 14 - simple open chords, basic strumming patterns, major/minor scales. In 9th grade, my parents moved from East Buttfuck, Nowhere to a small city in upstate NY, where the high school had a 1 year course in electronic music. (Their lab consisted of a couple of Teac A-3440 quad reel-to-reel recorders, and a few EML synthesizers.) They added a second level to the course, introducing video composition the following year. I won a state-sponsored contest for a couple of video compositions I did which got me into the NYS Summer School of the Arts at SUNY Buffalo. The high school was impressed enough to add a third level to the electronic music course. My project that year was to develop a new method of musical notation for electronic music. For my senior year, the high school added a final level in electronic music to allow me to continue my studies. I did some "sound engineering" work for a couple of school theatrical productions and was asked to submit a couple of pieces for the Electronic Body Movement (an interpretive dance group in Albany, NY).
After high school, I lost interest in electronic music (since I no longer had access to the school's studio) so I concentrated on getting better at playing guitar - developing my ability to play by ear, etc. I pretty much did a lot of woodshedding, played in a couple of garage bands doing covers until the early 90s, when I got involved with a band called Blisstree - a cross between shoegazing and jam-band. I honed my skills at programming effects at this time. After the band broke up, I kept in contact with the bassist, occasionally gettting together to jam and try to put together a new band, without success.
About 6 years ago, I started working as a graphic artist for a local newspaper (a job that really, really sucks, but pays almost decently). At the same time I discovered e-Bay and started putting together the studio. As I bought more gear, I began to learn more about the process of recording and started teaching myself to play keyboards as well as re-learning what I had forgotten about programming synths.
(the short version)
I was born...I will die...The hours in between are all that I can truly call mine.
How I spend those hours determines the ultimate worth of my life.Let me not seem to have lived in vain.
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