I have been composing Electronic Music since 1989 when I bought my first music computer - an Atari 1040st - but I have been playing music for much longer than that. I first started playing keyboards in a Punk band in 1978. Since then I have been in various bands playing all different styles, from Rock to Country to New Wave... but mostly Rock. I have been a solo act since 1988 when I moved from the stage to the studio and started getting more involved in the composing and recording end of things.
Some of the people who have influenced me musically are: Philip Corner, Henri Pousseur, Dick Raaijmakers, Iannis Xenakis, John Cage, Pierre Schaeffer (the father of musique concrète), Pierre Henry, and a host of other "tape music" pioneers from the 40s, 50s, and 60s have always blown me away. I also hold a lot of the modern electronic pioneers like, Tangerine Dream, Faust, Neu!, Brian Eno, Main, Autechre, FSOL, Clock DVA, Steve Reich, Klaus Schulze, Alan Parsons, Pink Floyd, Miles Davis, Chick Corea and Can as influences as well.
Of course I grew up listening to a lot of Detroit Radio, and so have groups like Supertramp, Led Zep, AC DC, Ted Nugent, Aerosmith, Rush, Deep Purple, Blue Oyster Cult, Nazareth and many others.
I seriously love all kinds of music and have worked with a lot of different people in the area where I live. I have even helped some of them put together "demos".
I currently have two artist pages... Tranceversions and (((stereofect))).
The music featured on these pages easily falls into the Ambient, Atmospheric, Trance and Abstract genres and are what I call "sonic psychedelic". They are never boring as they go through many timing and tempo changes to keep you interested and wondering what will happen next.
In the last ten years the ability to record in your own home has become easier and a lot more economical. And with the WWW now being so popular, it's become a great vehicle for making music available and gaining an audience that just wasn't possible, even a few short years ago. It's only in the last year that I have been able to turn my 'hobby' into a full blown presence on the 'web', making my music available to anyone in the world with access to the internet. This page is the starting place for you to be able to access, download, listen and purchase music composed and recorded in my home studio in Stratford,
Canada.