It's my real name.

I played bass and sang vocals in a metal band covering Metallica and Slayer songs. We played at some private parties and a couple Halloween shows. It was some of the most fun times I've ever had in my life.

The internet gives everyone a chance to be heard. It gives people annonymity and provides opportunities to practice being creative and expressive. The music industry, as a business, has no doubt suffered monetarily. But as far as creativity is concerned, it gives talented (and still unknown) artists the chance to create innovative music that would never make it to the radio. The internet has given listeners an opportunity to hear that music. You just never know what kind of music you'll hear and end up really enjoying.

If offered large sums of money to write music--something that I love doing for free--I would be a fool not to accept. I'm not sure about my ability to deal with the pressure of producing music under a deadline, but that would be a nice problem to have.

I primarily compose cinematic/new age/film score/electronic music. My top 5 favorite score/classical composers are: Danny Elfman, Vangelis, Chip Davis, Howard Shore, and Claude Debussy. I am probably influenced the most from those five. Besides film scores and instrumental music, I am huge fan of classic rock, metal, alternative, hip-hop, old school rap, techno/trance/house, and electronica. Some of my favorite bands/artists include: Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Marley and The Wailers, Tool, Metallica (Cliff Burton years only), Slayer, GWAR, Doctor Steel, Fear Factory, The Mars Volta, Rob Zombie, Korn, Black Sabbath, Sepultura, Primus, Buckethead (especially his albums Colma and Electric Tears), Radiohead, The Art of Noise, Gouryella, System F, Moon 5150, Dream Techno, Juno Reactor, The Prodigy, Motorcycle, Tupac, Snoop Dogg, Scarface, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Lupe Fiasco

Seattle, WA

Ibanez Bass, Kurzweil SP-88 keyboard, Creative E-MU 1212m sound card, Cakewalk Home Studio 4 software