Listening is my central practice and acousmatic composition is the inevitable result. I did my PhD research at De Montfort University, in Leicester, England, studying with the composer, John Young.
I'm from all over the southeastern United States, but lived more than half my life in Birmingham, Alabama. My undergraduate studies at UAB include composition and technology with Michael Angell, and I studied composition privately with Charles Norman Mason. My main classical guitar teachers were Larry Frings and Karlo Senasi.
I earned a BSc in psychology, gaining an interest in behavioural biology as a possible path to a coherent aesthetic theory. Much of what I learned there in biological and ecological psychology helps shape my ideas on form and heavily influenced my PhD research.
I was introduced to free improvisation by Trans Museq. My first public gig was organized by Wally Shoup, playing with Glenn Engstrand and Keith Collins.
I did a residency at BEAST in 1997, then went on to pursue independant research in acousmatics and free improv at my own studios in Alabama. I landed on the shores of the UK in Bangor, Wales, to study with Andrew Lewis. There I made The Transatlantic Half-Pipe and continued development on This is Not a Model.
As a free improvisational trumpet player and guitarist, I've performed (and listened) with Trans Museq, Davey Williams, LaDonna Smith, Craig Hultgren, Susan Heffner, and PhantomLimb. As a composer, I've written scores for modern dance, animation, video and multi-speaker diffusion.