I chose the name because it encapsulates my musical life. I have always composed, performed and enjoyed all kinds of different musics. I haven't stuck with one sound or style. So the idea of fluidity, of moving through various sounds, styles, concepts and ideas is something I have always embraced.

Yes I do play live. All of my shows have been in Chicago, Il.

I think what the internet and mp3s have done it to level the distrbution of music. Before the internet the only means of distributing ones' music was through a distributor who would attempt to get your release into various retail outlets. This was a system that worked against the "independent" artist. Often times a retail outlet would refuse to carry an independent release. The "old" way of distributing your music was far from an artist friendly system. Now an artist can record at home and distribute his or her music from "home" as well. All one needs now to distribute music is an internet connection. You still need to effectively promote your work but you no longer need to worry about its' availability. A by-product of mp3s is that CDs no longer have to be manufactured. The results are one less environmentally unsound product needlessly being manufactured!

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I am originally from Los Angeles (Leimert Park), Ca., now living and working in Chicago, Illinois. Formerly the keyboardist/bassist for Impulse, D.O.D., Wardrobe Cathedral, Immaculate Corrosion and Drug Of Choice. I also contributed synths and programming to Los Angeles based industrial/goth rock group Die My Darling. Appearing on their debut CD 'Virulent' (Trisol 2002).. I first discovered music through the clarinet, playing the instrument from the age of six years old. I began studying the piano at age ten, studying both classical and jazz musics and later learned the tenor sax, flute and oboe. I also spent two years studying orchestration in college. I think of myself as an "abstract sound sculptor". Sound sculpting is more about creating a mood. It's about creating music that provokes the imagination. I released my first record with Impulse, a four-song EP of electro-funk. 2000 saw the release of the industrial/acid-house/rap collision titled 'Warhol Machine'12" followed that same year by 'The Dream Is the Drug' 12" featuring Tequila Mockingbird. Since that time I have continued to release a large amount of music both as a solo artist (Re: dux tion, subduxtion and FluiD) and collaborator (with Black Saturn, Selbst-Morder and John 3:16) on various independent labels around the world. Encompassing a multitude of styles and influences - techno, jazz, noise, classical avant-garde, hip-hop, psychedelia, metal, dub, early industrial and ambient. As a remixer I have manipulated and re-constructed songs for Ganymede, Fr/action, Heat From A Deadstar, Blood Into Water, One Dead F***, Worms of the Earth and DisinVectant.

Allen Ravenstine, Aphex Twin, Autechre, Bill Laswell, Brian Eno, Can, Charlie Clouser, Coil, COUM Transmissions, David Bowie, David Cronenberg, David Lynch, Detroit Techno, DJ Spooky, French Philosophy, Fugazi, Georges Bataille, H.R. Giger, Iannis Xenakis, Jah Wobble, John Coltrane, Joy Division, Justin Broadrick, Kodwo Eshun, Lester Bangs, Melvins, Miles Davis, Neurosis, Ornette Coleman, Philip Glass, Philip K. Dick, Public Enemy and The Bomb Squad, Rick Rubin, Richie Hawtin, Samuel R. Delany, Skinny Puppy, Sunn O))), Sun Ra, Swans, The A.A.C.M., The Cure and Trent Reznor

London, never have I felt more at home in a city.

Dell Inspiron 530 desktop, Dell Inspiron laptop, Cubase SL3,
Sonar 7, Ableton Live 5, Native Instruments Battery 2, Audio Kontrol 1 (x2), Dynamo and Reaktor Session, M-Audio Radium 49 controller, Oxygen 8 and M-Tron, Korg Kaoss Pad 3, EA-1, MicroKorg and microX, Behringer BCN44 Controller, FCB 1010 MIDI Foot Controller and Dualfex II, Phonic MM1202 Mixer, MOTU MTP AV MIDI Interface, Kurzweil MicroPiano, DBX 266XL Compressor/Gate, Manytone Manybass VST, EastWest Symphonic Orchestra VST, Independence Basic Sampler Workstation and various vst fx and synths

Compilations:

'V/A - Birth' on Mz'umf Records (UK), contains the FluiD
soundscape - 'Remembrance'.

'V/A - Carrying The Deadly Blast Vol.2' on Deadknife Records
(Can), contains the FluiD metalscape - 'Lie, Cheat and Steal'.

'V/A - Evocation: A collection of dark-electronic music' on
Amduscias Records Net Label (US), contains the FluiD
metalscape - 'Hornblas Lament'.

'V/A - F**k 'Em All Vol. 3 on Death To Music
Productions (UK), contains the FluiD metalscape
'Absinise of Faith'.

'V/A - Darkmass 2008' on Okkulth Records (NL), contains the
FluiD noisescape - 'Frail'.