I decided to use my name, without embellishment.

I have not had the opportunity to play live in a number of years. When I did, it was as a classical violist/violinist playing the works of others.

It has revolutionized the music industry. Both myself and my best friend (Steven Davies-Morris of Systems Theory) had walked away from the music business in the early 1980's in order to make a living. When your only avenue for being heard was the Corporate Machine, and your muse was in a different direction, there didn't seem to be a point in continuing. The advent of computer based music tools for composing and recording music coupled with a distribution system which allows one to develop a worldwide fan base is almost magical.

If I could retain the rights to my works, and still be allowed to work with Systems Theory, I would consider it.

Greg started on the piano at the age of five, the violin at the age of seven, and the viola at the ripe old age of fourteen. The usual round of music camps and week-end youth orchestras naturally led to his becoming a member of a progressive rock band in the late 1970s.

In 1980, while Greg was a viola performance major, he studied electronic music at the University of California at Santa Barbara. His time in their EM program consisted of only one class, but it gave him access to one of the original quadrophonic recording studios and resulted in a music-concrete piece which is languishing on reel-to-reeI tape.

Greg has been involved in several different projects over the years. He has been in one rock-band or another with his best friend, Steven Davies-Morris, since they began collaborating in 1978. They wrote progressive, classically influenced rock for themselves, and pop music in hope of paying the bills. In 1979, they even did a commercial for San Diego based Budget Plumbing.

In the mid-1980's Greg branched out to compose and perform two different soundtracks. One was an educational massage video and the other an educational video for people in the video business.

Greg kept his rock and roll chops up playing in a garage band called MANEX, whose band members even wrote some good tunes together. Greg would love to resurrect some of the music of MANEX, but he has lost touch with his former band mates.

Around this time, Greg formed Incidental Music, a flute/violin and flute/viola duo, with his wife Diane E. Amov. Their most interesting gig was the wedding of Greg's then "real job" boss. Unbeknownst to the groom, the bride requested that Incidental Music play the groom's favorite song for the recessional. Undoubtedly this was the first and only time that Iron Butterfly's In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida was adapted and performed for flute and viola. The look on the groom's face was worth all the work it took to transcribe the piece.

After a few fallow years, Greg resumed his musical efforts in the late 1990s. First Greg began documenting the 'ancient history' of the progressive rock compositions which were languishing on pieces of manuscript paper in a file cabinet. Those were moved to the more modern storage of professional music composition programs on the computer. This lead to his reuniting with Steven-Davies Morris, and together they resurrected the band name they gave themselves in the 80s: Systems Theory.

The music creation tools Greg had discovered (from midi composition to raw sound and sample looping/editing) brought him back into the world of composition, and has resulted in (some of) the music available here.

Progressive Rock: Jethro Tull, Genesis, Yes, Banco, ELP, Renaissance.
Rock: The Beatles, The Monkees, Simon and Garfunkel, Carole King, Kate Bush.
Electronic: Brian Eno, Harold Budd, Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream.
Folk: Pete Seeger, The Weavers, Fairport Convention.
Classical: Aaron Copeland, Arvo Paart, Beethoven, Hildegard Von Bingen, Leonard Bernstein.

The Beach at Sunset.

Korg Poly61, Yamaha CS-3, Roland XP-30, MaGa 5 string electric violin, Kay electric mandolin, a generic electric guitar, a Baby Taylor acoustic guitar, a Folk acoustic guitar, E-Mu Drumulator, E-Bow.

Inside the computer: Samples, Acid Loops, virtual synths and effects, Mandelbrot and Genetic Code music generators. Random sound Generators, Virtual B4, Mellotron, and Theramin.