I often found myself rearranging music to fit how I thought it was best heard, or writing short melodies and recording them to cassette, then dubbing vocals over it by singing with the backup-tape in my parents' garage. It became quite a hobby and I spent many afterschool hours putting these songs together on tapes for my friends and family. Although I was quite shy at the time (and still am a bit now, too), I was talked into singing solos in church which went over quite well with the congregation. At 13, I got my first Casiotone keyboard and began experimenting more and more with song structure and sound collage. It was the first time I'd encountered MIDI, and I recall thinking that someone could really go insane with all the gadgets you could get working together.

In junior high and highschool, I was active in the musical theatre groups and enjoyed performing plays and writing short scripts for our annual Vaudeville performances. A few talented friends and I got together and practiced EnVogue covers which we performed at the Vaudeville shows and community centers. My senior year of highschool, I met a group of people that owned professional audio equipment, were highly artistic, and loved to perform. It was then that a siren sounded in my head, and I joined them in an experimental/industrial performance art group called Inter Animi. I spent the next few years on stage with them amongst the plaster and pyrotechnic sheet metal noise in clubs throughout southern Michigan, and it's an experience I'll never forget.

While studying biopsych and molecular genetics in college, I managed to take some courses in photography, holography, and poetry which I excessively used as my creative outlet. I'm still hoping to incorporate a lot of the visual imaging techniques I've learned into my Chiasm project..perhaps in some sort of music/poetry art-film cd-rom type thing...hang on, I"ll get there...

One night/morning in grad school I agreed to appear in a film entitled "Extinguish", directed by Brian Sullivan..which was a very cool grainy b&w gothic art film about suicide. It was shown at an art festival at 1515 Broadway in Detroit in the winter of 1997 and will soon be released on Outsider Filmworks, featuring a Chiasm soundtrack!
Details can be found on the Outsider Filmworks website.

In the fall of 1997, I spent many evenings in a local gothic coffeehouse named Ascension UK. It was a great place for writing poetry, hanging out, meeting people, and listening to music, and there I met Calvin P. Simmons of Dragon Tears Descending. He was looking for a keyboardist to help him in a show that October, there at Ascension, and things went from there. I joined the band and later bought my first professional keyboard, the Korg Trinity. We proceeded to play shows, opening for Lycia, and later for Black Tape for a Blue Girl.

After getting to know the Trinity, my musical interests became more and more electronic, and eventually I left DTD and formed my own project, Electrophoretic Transfer, including sampling by Shane Terpening, currently of Trotski's Block, who stuck around for the release of our first demo, post coitum, before leaving the country.

So I continued with my own work, and my current project, Chiasm emerged. I released the first demo cd, "Embryonic", in October of 1998, and released the song "Bouncing Baby Clones" on the Detroit Electronica compilation cd, "D[elEcTROnIc}T", in the spring of 1999. I've also been privileged to participate in several improvizational performances, including the "Meglomania" performance in the spring of 1998 with members of DTD and Ickytrip. 

My debut album on COP International, entitled "Disorder", was released in March 2001,  and has recently been featured on CBS/Paramount's Navy:NCIS as well as the PC game, VAMPIRE:The Masquerade-"Bloodlines", and is currently in its fourth pressing. A remix album with labelmate Threat Level 5 was also released in 2003. In the meantime, I have been writing new material, and touring the Midwest US, joined by guitarist/bassist B. Johnson, a.k.a. the Rev. Baldknobber.