Artist description "I'm going to tell you a story about Me Understanding Subconscious Intellectual Communication: I don't care if you stay, I don't care if you go away; Iv'e got to say this anyway. I consider myself as a crusader, someone who is looking for something new, who's turning over the unturned stone, who's stoned turning over the unturned stone. Looking for something that hasn't been found yet, trying for new heights, looking below the lowest thing. You might consider the things, which make music what it is, the things that make music. The science of music is rhythm and tones, that's all it is, that's all it will ever be! Rhythm, tone: Think about the old man speaking slowly and drably, he speaks without any tone he speaks so slow, or think about the angry person that shouts and wants something done: It's the music! Music is a language that's why we speak in different tones, our voice dances with melodies, we've got rhythm in our bones. It's up to us what we look for, it's up to us what we hear and see, We paint the picture with music, The images are clearly there, it's up to you, what you want them to be. Think about the picture and sing the song, in this laboratory we can make whatever happens, happen, we can make whatever we picture appear. Are you still there? Are you still listening? Why are you listening? Why are you out there listening to a piece of paper being moved by a magnet? Isn't it amazing? The power of MUSIC is in us all, as a listener or simply an observer. A Man, A Musician or a Music Magician: We all have the power to make anyone else believe what they hear,we have anyone in our spell, to make them picture what we play :- What we see in our minds will appear in their minds: Communication beyond all barriers. It's up to us, the musician, the man, the music magician to paint the picture from our palette. Without prejudice, I'm not qualified musically in any way. I have no intention or need to learn more about it, I simply want to experience the creation of it. Music is a communication medium. I believe it is an acronym for Me Understanding Subconscious Intellectual Communication.

Artist History MY MUSICAL HISTORY I was born on the kitchen table in 1964 at Alloa, Scotland. Music was not a feature of my family. I do have some early memories of pianos and guitars at my parents friends houses and how I was always compelled (but suppressed) to make a noise. I have been involved with music since the age of ten (photo 1974). It would be more accurate to say I was simply fascinated by sounds and the things that produced sounds. Usually I would build something by breaking up my two older brothers toys/gadgets : I was not very popular at times. I loved visiting my grandparents (as did my brothers), they had loads of old clocks, bits off car dashboards, motors etc. I would sit for hours building 'things' that would spin, whistle , rasp and generally make noises from the bits they gave me to take home. I expanded my interest in electronics in 1975 when my brother Barty bought me a breadboard (solderless circuits) allowing me to build little buzzers and tone generators. I was severely bullied (1978-79). My memories of secondary school is a blur, as being a nerd seemed to attract the bullies! I met people with similar interests and shared circuits, programs and ideas in-between running and hiding. I progressed through the ZX (1980) series of home computers and built myself a sampler with D/A and A/D chips. I even bought the drum machine thing for it (can't remember what it was called). At about 1982 I bought my first acoustic guitar and was exploring multi-tracking with two tape recorders. This was really good fun! I worked for a music shop (1983) and once worked overtime and received a synthesizer kit (Maplin) for payment. It wasn't very good sounding, but it did allow me to fully understand about sound synthesis. I got a fender telecaster for Christmas 1985 and started to meet other musicians who were cordially invited to my house, for a jam or recording session on my Sony 2-track reel to reel. Not being proficient at any instrument, we would generally just record what happened, then overdub something else along with it. I bought a Yamaha portasound 100 which at the time was a great little keyboard. As you can imagine, with all the above, my music was getting strange. Eventually the pull of the 'band scene' was growing within me. My first gig was at some guys stag night and I was playing bass (since then I have been a bass-player when working in bands). More gigs were offered for charity events etc., but they were all very rough and I have conveniently forgot about them. My first real gigging band (1989) was called 'The Connection', a 70's covers band. We were keen to play all the juke-box classics like The rolling stones, cream, the who, the doors etc.It was all good fun. Then came 'blind' (1991) a powerpop/indi band who played and wrote their own stuff (very few covers) and generated lot's of local hype and following. In 1990 I moved house and bought an AMIGA 500 (whoo! a whole half meg of ram!) and began to write multitrack music with Octalizer: This was my first venture into making music with samples and sequencing with a computer. Finally there was 'Elemental' (1993) a really good soul-funk-jazz band who, as a team, didn't try hard enough to take the last steps to the big time. A real shame, sigh! During all this time I had been doing my 'own thing' with a Fostex 8-track, loaned to me by my friend Colin. I found this produced more inner-happiness than the live scene. Several other things made me decide that the live scene was all too much, so in 1995, left Elemental, sold all my equipment (not the bass) and bought my current studio equipment. Music to me is much more than bands and the stuff that comes from speakers. I'm not wanting to be 'rich and famous' with my music, I simply enjoy making it!. I work best when I'm alone or interacting with people who inspire me mentally, spiritually and musically. With a no-holds-barred approach to recording music, even I don't know what I'm going to come up with next. I hold hundreds of hours of my musical ideas and experiments as recorded material: I regard it as 'brains on tape'. Now, thanks to technology, I own the musical playground only dreamt of in my youth. I was very concious of spending, what I regarded as a lot of money, on musical equipment. Now as I reflect, it was really a small price to pay for playground with infinite boundaries on my approach to music.

Location Glenochil, Clacks - United Kingdom

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