I'm Atlanta's Creative Loafing Best of 2007 "Best Local Electronic Act" (also for 2005). My solo project called Sensitive Chaos is an Instrumental, Ambient, Down-To-Mid-Tempo, Drums'N'Bass'Loops vibe with a touch of soprano saxophone supplied by my friend Brian Good. You can hear samples and buy songs or buy the CD below on CD Baby or on iTunes.
The CD was selected as one of KKUP 91.5 FM's "Best Visionary Music of 2007," a "Top 12 Best Ambient CD of 2006" by New Age Reporter, and got lots of airplay on places like Public Radio International's Echoes syndicated radio show (145 stations across the US), WDBX, WTUL, SomaFM, KTUH, WDIY, KKUP, StillStream.com, Aural Innovations Radio, Ambient Ping Radio, and Finnish Broadcasting's Space Junk program. And positive reviews have appeared in New Age Reporter, Guts Of Darkness, Sonic Curiosity, Ping Things, Cool Streams Ambient Caverns, Melliflua,and Stomp and Stammer Magazine. Check out my blog for more details.
I play regular solo ambient looping gigs under my own name, perform in the duo Bribing The Buddha, and host the regular Atlanta Songwriters Series on Saturday nights at Kavarna in the Oakhurst area of Decatur (see ATL Songwriters in my friends list below).
I also produced, promoted, and performed at the first annual
City Skies 08 Electronic Music Festival on May 2 & 3, 2008
at Kavarna in Decatur, GA. I'm also continuing this series on October 4, 2008, and in Feb. 2009, and a repeat of the Festival weekend in May 2009.
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Also, I used to be half of Atlanta-based TouchXtone (or here on MySpace ) (or here on CD Baby ), TouchXtone was formed in November of 2003, released 12 CDs, and was named Best Local Electronic Act in the Atlanta Creative Loafing Best Of Atlanta 2005 issue. We performed in Georgia (Eleven 50, Java Monkey, Agnes Scott College's Delafield Planetarium, Miro's Garden, Brandyhouse, EyeDrum), Chapel Hill (Nightlight), and Philadelphia (electro-music 2005 Festival).
I also collaborated at The Happenstance 2006 at The Earl and both the 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007 Different Skies electronic music festivals, both as an ensemble player and as a member of Phosphene Grid . My contributions to Different Skies 2004 can be heard on the various artists compilation DVD "Arcs And Angles" on the Atomic City label available at Filmbaby.com . Recordings from the 2007 Different Skies jams are soon to be released on the Earth Mantra label (creative commons).
My most recent writings are magazine articles including reviews of MOTU's Digital Performer 5 appearing in two 2007 issues of Recording Magazine and "Why Is My DAW My DAW?" published in the December 2005 issue of Recording Magazine.
I'm an Oklahoma-born (Poteau) and Texas-raised (Dallas) keyboardist/composer, recording producer/engineer, multimedia artist, and writer who began my musical forays both playing piano and manipulating tape machines while recording feedback. Synthesizers entered my life when I built a PAIA synthesizer kit and heard Rick Wakeman for the first time on a quadraphonic 8-track copy of The Six Wives Of Henry VIII. I've been making noise and music with synthesizers and recording gear ever since.
I produced my first independent record with the post-punk/neo-reggae/power pop Dallas band New Jetz, also playing synthesizers and organ. This led to a "Best Unsigned Band" nod from the Dallas Observer.
I lived in NYC for 12 years, producing rock recordings, mixing live sound at places like Studio 54/CBGBs/Kat Klub, and playing out in bands of my own.
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