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My life is a mix of musical and technological backgrounds, having studied both computer science and music (with a focus on combining the two). I'm originally from the Boston area, am a composer and developing Chapman Stick player. The Stick is a unique instrument, developed by Emmett Chapman, that combines elements of guitar, piano and percussion. The strings are tapped onto the frets rather than plucked or strummed, enabling both hands to play different parts as on a keyboard. I use a mirrored 4ths tuning, with the bass strings going from E to F and the melody strings from B to C.

Above are some recordings I did at home:

One Cloud, Conscious Stream and Noodle Soup are solo Chapman Stick compositions.

Mighty Wren is a rock piece with multi-tracked Stick and MIDI triggered drums. All instrument effects processing was done with Guitar Rig, mixing/mastering with Wave Arts plug-ins.

Differential is a rock instrumental with "standard" instruments- Rickenbacker 4001v63 bass, Godin Exit 22 guitar, programmed/MIDI drums (no Stick). All of the instrument and effects processing was done on a computer.

Feel free to visit my website for more music, both originals and arrangements.

I also help develop audio plug-ins and virtual instruments for Wave Arts and Camel Audio.