Bio: Inspired and encouraged by a friend (whose family owned a baby grand piano two doors up), I started piano lessons at age 7. My early attempts at writing short pieces were a distraction to learning classic piano literature. The distraction eventually won the battle resulting in my inability to sight read with any desired speed. I was introduced to multi-track recording by age 12 and purchased my first electric keyboard by age 13 (RMI electric piano - just like the one that Rick Wakeman played on "Fragile" and "Close to the Edge"). I bought an A.R.P. axxe synthesizer by age 15 and realized that my already questionable pursuit as a classical piano student was completely doomed. Choice: practice Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor ... or learn a blistering synthesizer solo by Keith Emerson. Sadly, Beethoven could NOT win that contest. I was heavily influenced by British prog rockers such as ELP, Yes, Genesis, and other groups like them. Their ability to weave so many different musical elements together was an inspiration for me to explore other genres of music. The jazz fusion movement that was rooted in the early 1960s confirmed that breaking boundaries could create a whole new spectrum of musical colors and rhythms. I have continued to write and record music that expresses an idea, an unusual sensation or mood. Members: Unfortunately, there are no other members - - so everything you hear is played by me on a keyboard and recorded into M.O.T.U. Digital Performer 7. It would be awesome to have a "real" guitar player replace all of the guitar parts that I play on the keyboard, although I do enjoy designing guitar sounds, amp settings, distortion and using the pitch wheel for note bending. It would be equally freaking awesome to have a real drummer and a real bass player (uh, anyone interested?) perform the parts that I write for those instruments but time and schedule just don’t allow for that right now. As it is, the drum parts are all played by my callused finger tips pounding notes on the keyboard in real time with some quantization once in a while. I never use drum loops for anything other than backgrounds in the mix because they’re too restrictive. I actually enjoy building my drum tracks from the ground up with individual tracks for high hat or ride, kick & snare, toms, percussion, misc. fills and of course several tracks for cymbals. My bass parts are always played in real time using bass sounds from a variety of modules and virtual instruments.