The music I make might best be described as eclectica. On some pieces, I use my mac powerbook for making strange sounds, while other pieces are composed for traditional instruments, and yet others are rock songs and yet more are improvised performances using computer, guitar, voice, toys, found objects, and homemade electronics.

I started playing music fairly young, and was even labelled gifted. They said I had perfect pitch. I don't think anyone who listens to the tape I made for my grandmother at the age of nine, playing violin and singing would recognize either of these labels. Yet this didn't deter me from making music and recordings with my little one-speaker cassette deck.

When I visited in my teens, the villagers said "Ah, the musician."
Between my playing and singing such classics as "Little Bunny Foo-Foo" and "London Bridge is Falling Down," each of which was rendered almost unidentifiable, I didn't win over any new audiences in the old world. However, even this didn't deter me from pursuing the art of music, learning cello, guitar, then piano, and finally ending up at Mills
College where I earned a Master's degree in Electronic Music &
Recording Media.

I've spent years recording, though my self-made and released tapes were met with much indifference from Teen-Beat and their ilk. I first played with Richard Bundy (yes, Ted's little brother) and Keith Thomas (no relation to Dave), in the groups Freaks in Heat and The Lost Adventurers, while also performing some solo shows and recording on the four track. My output during this time was weird retro-style rock songs, largely influenced by the likes of The Doors, Pink Floyd, Frank Zappa, The Beatles, and the Velvet Underground. From 1994 to 1997, I conducted an anti-tour, which was an unadvertised effort to not play for several years, and this was also met with widespread indifference from the Teeny Bop magazines, as well as the serious press.

While attending Evergreen and living in Olympia, Washington, I once again began making music, this time informed by studies of 20th Century music composition. This also served as a springboard to going to Mills. Most recently I played on and off with Jonathan Segel (of Camper van Beethoven) and Jen Baker, and I've appeared over the past few years at Acme Observatory in Berkeley, The Luggage Store Music Series in San Francisco, 21 Grand in Oakland, and the Cognitive Dissidents Series at Coffee Messiah in Seattle.

Check out my work here: http://www.alchemusick.com