Artist description I use midi sequencing programs like Cakewalk to write my music. Once I have a midi file, I convert it to an MP3 and upload it here. I use an SB Live soundcard and high quality sound fonts to make each instrument sound as realistic as possible (which is damn hard where midi is concerned, but I do my best.) I'm not here to make money, only to share my music. Download and enjoy! I hope you'll find my creations aesthetically pleasing.

Music Style Classical

Musical Influences Too many to count - even composers I hate have influenced me to some extent, even if that influence has been not to emulate them. Some of my favourite "old masters" are Liszt, Alkan, Prokofiev, Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky, Medtner, Shostakovich, and Scriabin. Contemporary composers like I like are Ligeti, Liebermann, Bolcom, Sagerquist, Corigliano, and Hamelin.

Artist History I was born in 1981. It wasn't until the last couple of years that I've been interested in any music at all, let alone composing. I became obsessed with classical music in particular through the usual "Robert Anton Wilson - Amadeus - Shine - Rachmaninoff - Marc-Andre Hamelin - Scriabin - Scherbakov" chain of influence. Or is that just me? I'll explain. I was reading a typically mind-bending Robert Anton Wilson novel "The Earth Will Shake" about an eighteenth century Neapolitan musician and his involvement in a tangled web of mystics and conspirators. One of the things that fascinated me about the novel was how music was so vital in the life of the protagonist, Sigismundo Celine, and how he revealed profound philosophical truths through abstract sound in a classical, baroque idiom. It really piqued my interested in classical music, something I'd ignorantly considered dull, hackneyed, and repetitive previously. More specifically, I'd never before thought of lyricless music, on its own, as being connected with things like tantric sex and masonic initiation rituals. I became instantly fascinated and rented the movie "Amadeus." I got really into the music of Mozart and came to enjoy the music for its own sake, with no pretentious philosophical attachments. Watching Tom Hulce play a virtuosic rendition of an aria from "The Marriage of Figaro" I became interested with the possibilities of piano playing, and that drew me to watch the movie "Shine" about the pianist David Helfgott. This experience opened me up to the joys of the romantic piano music, especially Rachmaninoff and Liszt, with their manic intensity and thrilling virtuosity and I've been hooked ever since. I attended my first piano recital in my hometown and was lucky enough to hear Marc-Andre Hamelin, one of the greatest pianists alive today. I bought one of his CDs at the recital and checking his discography in the liner notes, was introduced to a wide range of works by lesser known composers, as Hamelin admirably concentrates on neglected music that is not often played, but should be heard (eg. Alkan and Medtner). So I became obsessed with the obscure stuff and that led me into a research project I did for a college history class on a virtually UNKNOWN Russian composer by the name of Sherbakov - he wrote LITERALLY satanic music designed to conjure the devil - before he commited suicide, that is. Researching his music, I was able to ACTUALLY conjure Satan which led to a chain reaction that ended in the earth being swallowed into the bowels of hell. Okay, that last bit was a fabrication - actually the synopsis of a short story I'm writing. Sounds cool, doesn't it? I've always thought I've had the ability to write some kickass music if I set my mind to it, but it's been only recently that I've actually started to transcribe what I hear in my head. I've never been comfortable with notation - it takes me forever to read and write in that language and I'm shamelessly lazy about improving my familiarity with it - but when I was introduced to "sequencing" programs like Cakewalk, I found a much quicker way to write down my musical ideas - and being able to hear them played back as well? That was a nice bonus. Now it's become essential and led to my exclusive use of midi/mp3 in my composing. I've also been learning to play the piano, but I'm far from the point at which I can play my own keyboard music, which tends to be unreasonably difficult. What can I say? I make no apologies for the fact that I like high-speed, virtuosic pieces. I think it was Charles Ives who said something like: Is it the composer's fault that the human hands only have ten fingers?

Location Nelson, British Columbia - Canada

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