MY MUSIC
I'm a solo artist composing music for 3 different projects:
Syntropia
Electronica / World
Beautiful Fools (2006)
Green Desire (2007)
Listener comments:
a nice blend of percussive sounds and atmospheres.
beautiful. ethereal. delicious.
abolutely alluring.
http://Syntropia.bebo.com
http://www.last.fm/music/Syntropia
http//www.myspace.com/syntropia
Shadowsound
Electronica / Experimental
cometoseehurryup (2006)
Zero Dissent (2007)
Listener comments:
darkly beautiful.
awesome and scary.
sensual and smart.
http://www.last.fm/music/Shadowsound
http//www.myspace.com/shadowsoundz
The Eudaemons
Classical / Gothic
Listener comments:
speechless. . .it's magnificent.
very very beautiful stuff.
http://Eudaemons.bebo.com
http//www.myspace.com/eudaemons
TRAINING
My only formal training in music was learning to read music and playing in lower/middle and high school bands. My informal training came in the process of creating radio programs and exploring the possiblities of electronic music studios.
RADIO AS A CREATIVE MEDIUM
From 1973 to 1983 I volunteered as a music program host on college and community access radio stations: WGSU-FM (Geneseo NY), KRAB-FM (Seattle WA), KAOS-FM (Olympia WA) and KBCS-FM (Bellevue WA).
I used radio as a creative medium, doing live sound collages with multiple sound sources spontaneously mixed.
For example, a graduate student seminar in Music Composition from the University of WA came by the radio studio in Seattle one night to learn about my techniques of creating new music with pre-existing sound sources. They presented me with a challenge - do something creative with Stairway to Heaven. The result: it sounds great played at 45 rpm and mixed with Yoko Ono's music from Fly.
My radio shows included Frozen Soul (the imagined music of the inhabitants of Antarica), Ritual Hibachi Music (classical Japanese mixed with Space Age Bachelor Pad Music), Bound for Glory (Peul tribe flagellation chants and Woody Guthrie songs) and 90 Minutes an Hour presenting the music of the minimalists (again using the 45 instead of 33 rpm technique - do the math to figure out the show's title).
CLOUDS OF SOUND AND SILENCE
Also during the 70's and 80's, I had access to electronic music studios where I created avant-garde pieces with massive sound-clusters and random silent interludes -- something like Xenakis meets Cage.
EDUCATING THE EARS
During my time doing radio, I auditioned thousands of albums and CDs to find music for my shows. Live and on-air, I experimented with the most unlikely of mixtures of music (yes, you can really blend Elvis Presley with Ravi Shankar) and gained broad experience with the possible purmutations of sound. With the advent of powerful lap-tops and music software, I decided (in 2004) to try putting all that I've learned to work by writing songs.
THE GEAR
The music is composed and produced using an Evolution midi keyboard, the G4 Titanium Powerbook, Propellerhead's Reason music software and 9 DVDs worth of "virtual instruments".
If you like what I'm doing, I love to have your comments. Thanks and enjoy the music
