The Disordered Mind
These songs were written, recorded, performed and produced by myself purely for my own entertainment and satisfaction. I have been recording for several years and find it to be a good way to document myself.
I like to think of this music as a type of scrap book.
A conglomeration of my inner thoughts archived and labeled.
Writing music and recording is a great pastime and wonderfully entertaining as an exercise in creativity. I feel that there is something at the very deepest core of my being that propels me in this cycle of writing, recording and self evaluation
Tell me about your history? How did you get where you are now?
I grew up in a little town outside of Boston. I always wanted to be a musician and performer. I started recording and being very interested in music and technology around the age of 15. Now 15 years later after several years of bitterness about my own shortcomings I have come to an understanding with myself that it was a good experience to have music as such a large influence in my life. Even if it never brings me anything tangible I will be entirely grateful.
Have you performed live in front of an audience? Any special memories?
Most of this music has never been played live and probably won’t be. I play live in a separate project to fulfill the need of playing live.
Your musical influences
I like a little bit of everything. I could list my influences for and hour and a half and the idea you come up with will probably not match the sound that you hear. The music is so varied and disjointed that I would probably need a comparison and influence for each piece, but that hardly seems worthwhile currently. I am not so interested in picking up listeners from search engines based on the influences I list.
What equipment do you use?
All of this music was recorded with a Pro-tools 001 system unless specified to be a 4-track recording. Almost all guitar and bass sounds were tracked using real instruments. Most of the voices are mine recorded with a Rode NT1 unless sampled, and the other sounds were designed with various pieces of hardware and software. The synth and drum sounds were created with a Roland Sound Canvas SC-8850 primarily (at least lately) also used a Korg X5, Rebirth, Grainwave (as a simple software sampler), various acoustic rhythm instruments.
Anything else?
I AM NOT INTERESTED IN NEGATIVITY AS A RESPONSE TO THIS MUSIC. IF YOU DON’T LIKE SOMETHING I CAN ONLY SUGGEST YOU LISTEN TO SOMETHING ELSE.
