Thanks for scoping this page out. I am a North Carolina native, born and reared in the small town of Graham, twenty miles or so east of Greensboro. After torturing my family with music I heard in my head from infancy I was allowed to study voice, piano and clarinet. I was a composition major at UNCG under Jack Jarrett, Eddie Bass, Frank McCarty and Art Hunkins until my last semester there, when based on papers analyzing the finale of the Mahler Ninth Symphony and the third movement of Berio’s Sinfonia, I was granted a fellowship in musicology at UNC-Chapel Hill. I was invited back to UNC-G to become a faculty composer and accompanist for the Dance department from 1980 to 1995. Subsequent to budget cuts there I was employed by the physical plant at the university first as a landscaper and horticulturist, then as a custodian/florist/pianist for the Alumni House. When the Notion crew returned from India in 2004, Jack Jarrett invited me to check out the new software. I was so captivated by the intuitive ease and flexibility for entry and editing with sophisticated sampling in playback that I enthusiastically accepted the honor of working here as composer-in-residence. (Jack had also bestowed an honorary degree upon me at the end of my freshman year – a doctorate in taural scatology.) All of the little ditties here are completely realized in Notion and/or Progression. Besides accompanying dance at Greensboro Ballet and silent films at the NCSA film school, I have played free improv under the auspices of Meet the Composer at various venues on the east coast with the F-Art Ensemble, Eugene Chadbourne and in a duo with percussionist Murray Reams. I have composed and performed work for the American Dance Festival, over 150 dance scores and sound designs, student films, church and theatrical events in the Southeast. My specialties as a composer are obfuscation, procrastination, pedantic and obscene arcane references as well as an immoderate and immodest propensity towards self-deprecation & its tea-time (when is it not?!) so it may be best to stop.
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