Artist Statment

I am a media technologist, leveraging the power of technology to catalyze new aesthetics for the creation, performance, and presentation of forward looking artistic works.

I am also an electronic musician. My work is centered on trying to draw emotion out of our digital lives. To this end, I create music, design sounds, and develop software and interfaces, all for the purpose of creating artwork that frames our coexistence with technology. This relatively new and steadily growing relationship has great impact on our intellectual, physical, and spiritual selves, and my music attempts to utilize and understand it.

My work is focused at the junction of the organic and the mechanical. We adapt technology to our lives, and adapt our lives to technology. We move toward convergence with our creations. As our lives become more digital, exploring the soul of the machine becomes increasingly an introspection of ourselves. My music is about maintaining our resolution, searching for the realities in abstractions, and in uncovering the common threads that transcend all mediums.

The design of my sounds plays a large roll in my music. I believe that source material has as much relevance to a composition as its organization. In my music, I seek a balance of form and content, a harmony that makes the music sound whole. My sounds, although artificial, echo their spirit from natural sources. This tie to the organic allows me to create textures that have depth, clarity, and vibrancy.

Much of my music deals with ambience and artificial spaces. By enabling listeners to enter into different soundscapes, emotion and perspective can be conveyed. My music presents these alternate realities that can allow people to escape their current environment and exist in a separate state of being. It is my hope that by immersing listeners in these environments, I can communicate to them in ways that are not possible with traditional means.

I am also interested in the interface between humans and machines. By fully integrating the possibilities of the present technology with the traditions of the past, I believe I can create new music that speaks very clearly of the transitional time in which we live, our culture, and where we are going.