i used to be known as "chisel," but since there was already a band with that name i decided to change it. i came up with "noetic echoes" because i was working on the song "noetic" and the name just came to me. as far as i know, no one else has claimed this phrase for any purpose.

never done a live show; since all my music is done via programming and i don't even own a keyboard, i imagine a live show would be rather boring at the moment. i toyed around with a korg kp3 kaoss pad but decided that i should start out with something more humble, like a keyboard, sequencer, and maybe some drum pads before going headlong into dynamic effects processing. it was wicked fun, though, and i plan on purchasing one again sometime in the future.

mp3s are certainly a double-edged sword. it allows smaller acts to release music for free, but when you try to sell them, there's always the risk of easy redistribution. i think that the model used by sites like bandcamp is probably the wave of the future, just because it lets people pay what they think is a reasonable price, and gives product immediately, which is important for some people who don't want to wait for a CD to arrive in the mail.

i started working on music as a hobby in late 2004/early 2005, and back then i was just screwing around with random stuff--i wanted to make something that was a cross between front 242 and a very noisy croc shop, with some noisex thrown in for good measure. sometime in 2007, though, i began to synthesize my philosophical pursuits with my musical pursuits, as i became very interested in the interdisciplinary possibilities that awaited. to this day, there is still not a very vocal field in the philosophy of music, as it is still vastly incomplete as compared to other philosophical disciplines, and as far as i know, there are no bands making philosophy as music.

earlier last year (2008) i started a shift away from philosophy and i am now exploring explicitly fantastical ideas that are rich in philosophical themes, as a direct result of a series of lucid dreams that i experienced. in 2009 i have been working at reworking older songs that i think are worth my time to retrofit.

as of now i am moving away from my older material wholly in order to rework my approach. i think my dedication to older, less refined tracks have clouded my musical judgment and i am scrapping all of my old tracks to make way for the new.

gridlock, autechre, mentallo & the fixer, and haujobb are probably the biggest bands that have directly influenced my music. of course, ideas are the latent phenomenal baggage in most of my work, most notably determinism, modularity, phenomenology, and possible worlds theory. ryuichi sakamoto is one of my favorite living composers, and his work "discord" is inarguably one of my miscellaneous touchstones. there's a lot of random music -- "adagio for strings," for instance -- that just stirs deep within me, and i usually have to turn them off if there's anyone around because i'll probably start crying like a little girl. although i'm not a huge fan of anime, yoichiro yoshikawa's work on the "iria" soundtrack has some real gems, among others. it's a fairly eclectic mix, all told.

just the pc. nothing fancy.