I’m a musician and fine artist working diligently on getting more real about who I am. Although I enjoy making a living as a graphic and web designer at Raven’s Eye Design, I feel myself evolving eventually into a career that includes musical recording and live performance. Surreal painting and other forms of artistic expression also entice me, but I’ve mostly set those aside for the past few years in order to focus my energy.

I’ve played saxophone for more than 30 years, and I’ve taken up several other instruments as well: piano, various wooden flutes, guitar, various hand drums, didgeridoo, vocals, synthesizers, bagpipes and whatever else I’ve been able to coax music out of. In the past few years, I’ve been learning the ins and outs of studio recording and basic audio engineering, and I see the recording studio as a vital part of the whole packaging of creative sound, and sort of as an instrument in its own right.

I’ve been performing sporadically — as a solo entertainer and with a diverse assortment of bands, circuses and other performance troupes — for decades. Lately, however, I’ve been digging gently and ever more deeply into my soul for creativity that springs from a more authentic place. I also am in an electro-acoustic space music duo with Rick Davies called Simple Question, which plays sporadically, but which has yet to be able to support itself even though the music is quite good.

Along with the free songs I’ve been posting to this website, I’m working on a growing repertoire of more polished and structured alternative rock songs, none of which is ready for release, but all of which are teaching me about myself and the creative process. The songs available for free download here are all improvisations in the studio.

Aside from my career aspirations, I enjoy hiking and communing with nature, yoga as fitness, bicycling as transportation and fun, watching and talking with crows and ravens, and finding myself in surreal experiences reminiscent of David Lynch movies. I walk a spiritual path, but have no interest at all in religion or dogma of any flavor.