audiodef

I've known on some level my calling would have something to do with music since I was 13, as far as I can remember. Until 2006 or so, however, life had other plans for me. It was around that time that I was fascinated by a small Casio keyboard my uncle got for his birthday. I'm sure I annoyed him quite a bit asking to play with it until I got a couple of keyboards of my own. I made several tapes of mostly improvisational compositions before and during high school, but never tried to take it ...

I've known on some level my calling would have something to do with music since I was 13, as far as I can remember. Until 2006 or so, however, life had other plans for me. It was around that time that I was fascinated by a small Casio keyboard my uncle got for his birthday. I'm sure I annoyed him quite a bit asking to play with it until I got a couple of keyboards of my own. I made several tapes of mostly improvisational compositions before and during high school, but never tried to take it anywhere. I was mostly interested in just being able to play for my own expression. As a young adult, I oscillated between two universities before finally graduating from American University in 1999. Not long before graduating, I got married, and to make a long story short, that didn't work out very well. While in that period of my life, I worked at various types of computing and IT jobs, including IT coordinator for VSA Arts, freelance programming for Aquent/Consumer Electronics Association, senior web developer/webmaster at a DC-area university, and IT specialist for the Library of Congress, where I ended my professional IT days with a great loss of respect toward the system and the US government. Today I work full-time on my music, using equipment I was able to acquire with money I made working at the LOC (at least I got that, and a MINI, from this job, if little else). I've supplemented this equipment gradually over time by scrimping, saving, and being very patient, as hard as that sometimes is. I generally stick to writing lyrics about what I know, which is good advice for all writers, I suppose. I've always been fascinated by synths and except for small, simple guitar parts here and there, and of course vocals, my work consists entirely of synth compositions. I allow anything and everything I think sounds good to influence my work.