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I use a small space ship full of looping devices and effect pedals to create sounds with a variety of acoustic and electronic instruments including guitar, banjo, voice, bass, melodica, toy instruments, theremin, tape recorders, self recorded samples, and more. I combine layer upon layer of sound, constantly reprocessing and chopping up the sounds I've just recorded, building dense soundscapes, while pulling all the sounds together into an abstract song structure.
I mix improvisation with loosely precomposed material, finding joy in “accidents” and “mistakes”. The element of chance is an important component also in my composing process. I don't always want to know what will come out. The process is important to me.
When the opportunity arrises I like to work completely improvised with only the sounds in the space as source material. Then I loop, distort, and chop up the sounds I record out of the space.
After growing up in Brooklyn, New York and moving around to cities like London and Phoenix and to small villages in England or in the Catskill mountains in New York, I ended up in Berlin, Germany. Playing concerts in Berlin's underground (illegal clubs, bars, cinemas and festivals) I met Tobias Vethake, founder of Blankrecords. We immediately started our improv collaboration called Vincent and I eventually released my first solo album, Motherless Brooklyn, on Blankrecords.
In 2004 I moved to Johannesburg, South Africa, where I still find myself.
My second solo album, Hands&Feet, is nearly finished and will be released in 2009. My duo with Tobias Vethake, called Vincent, is seeing it's first release this year on Blankrecords. I'm also playing with a very talented lady named Jane Rademeyer who's just released her debut album I Think A Halo, and there are many more exciting collaborations on the cards for the near future.
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