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When I was 6 years old my uncle gave me a snare drum and a set of sticks. At that age everything around you is already a drum, so I incorporated everyday objects to complete my "drum set". I still like the sound of "found objects" driving the rhythm of a song and try to add them whenever I can. At age 8, I got a trumpet, learned to read music and was forced to study the basics of music theory. At 13 I rebuilt, refinished and rewired an old electric guitar I had found. After some practice, I knocked around in various bands of the day playing everything from Hardcore to Fifties music and almost everything in between, all with little or no real success. It wasn't until college that I bought my first analog synth... a Roland Juno 60, then a Moog Source, then an Arp Solus, then an Arp 2600, then a Korg Poly 6, Casio CZ1, Roland SH101 and the list just kept going. Sadly, they were sold off long before we moved to the islands. The last one to go was a very old Arp String Ensemble. Island life is great for humans but hard on electronics. Down here virtual synths are the way to go. You get most of the sound of the "real" synth, in zero physical space and you don't have to watch them rust.

In the 90's I was active in the Baltimore / Washington D.C. electronic music scene as DJ Dave-G and briefly (1995-1996) as a record label owner. I have had the privilege of playing with such electronic luminaries as Matt Ducasse of Skylab, Alex Patterson of the Orb, Autechure, Jonah Sharp, Spooky, Terre Thaemlitz, LTJ Bukem, Damon Wild, Dubtribe and many more. Personal highlights include a massive 10 hour set at a Cloudwatch event playing the room opposite to Mixmaster Morris, playing a few tracks with Alex Patterson of the Orb at the HFStival, playing Fever and Bassrush and just about every Cloudwatch event (thanks LG) in Baltimore, the Dragonfly and Rumpus in D.C. and the now legendary micro-raves at Goucher College.

Lately, I've been writing music and doing an occasional voiceover for TV and radio commercials, recording authors and other professional voiceover artists for audio books and film. I have written music for commercials and short films.

I work in Pro Tools 7.4 for audio recording/editing, Logic Studio for midi programming/sequencing and Ableton Live 7 for sketching ideas.

Check out my "Podcast from Paradise" on iTunes!

I was recently asked about some of the synths that I used to make my music, so here goes:
Absynth
Albino
Alpha
Battery
Blue
EXSP24
EZDrummer
Massive
Orca
Structure
Tassman
Ultra Analog VA-1
ZebraCM