Electronic Music and Why
I first discovered electronic music when I was about 6. My parents used to hang out with the guy who sold most of the homes on Dillon Beach on the central coast of California. He was a musician and had a big beautiful room devoted to recording. One of his toys was a Roland Jupiter 8 and he would let me play it with his state-of-the-art monitoring headphones. The possibilities were endless. The wall it sat against hung a huge print of "The Garden of Earthly Delights" a triptych by Hieronymus Bosch. So I would stare at the painting for hours and design unearthly sounds with the synthesizer.
When I was 16 I bought a Roland Juno-6, a basic but vast analog synth. I recorded it on a Tascam 4-track where I learned how to bounce tracks and create compositions with 8-10 tracks of audio.
I dabbled.
I played guitar for awhile, traveled South East Asia, came home, opened a little cafe for a little coffee company and discovered that during my break from technology, it had became possible to sequence large pieces of music on a laptop. Within 2 weeks of that discovery, I had a laptop and spent most of my free time writing music. Not much has changed on that front.
My music is composed honestly, without focus on genre. I write what I feel and hope to tell little stories in people's imaginations. I also like it when people feel compelled to dance to my music. I will compose music for the rest of my life and I have abandoned all other artistic pursuits.
I live in Northern California and play shows every once and awhile. Reference this site for dates and places. I hope to see you out there.