Thank you for the interest in my music. I am an architect by day and musician by night in the Boston area.

The earliest memories I have of music were listening to my mother and grandmother playing the piano. I used to lay my heard against the piano and feel the strings vibrating inside. My not so successful early forays in to that instrument were not met with great acclaim as I drove my Matchbox cars up and down the keyboard to my continual amusement.

Many years later, in kindergarten, apparently being somewhat of a young rebel, my seemingly constant reprimands led to numerous "time outs" away from the rest of the class... and as punishment, relegated to solitary confinement... behind the piano.

Many years after that, in the third grade, it was a family "requirement" that my older sister and myself take piano lessons. My sister, always being the dutiful one, excelled at this form of musical structure. I on the other hand, who would rather be outside playing with my friends building go carts, rebelled against the way my piano teacher insisted Brahms should be played. I would always ask her (and probably in an effort to divert attention away from my less than practiced lessons for that week) "How do YOU know?"

My first experience that there might actually be something redeeming to this music thing came in the 5th grade when I obtained the sheet music to Henry Mancini's "The Pink Panther"... Well, I learned that piece front to back and realized, hey... "I rock..."

Sadly, (apparently for everyone else but not for me) after 3 years of musical "training" and rudimentary musical skills at best, I retired from formal music education.

I wanted to go back to playing outside and building homemade go carts.

However, it was at that point that something changed... I really started to LOVE music... I always sort of improvised over the top all the greats that I was studying in my formal lessons anyway... but now I was free to "noodle" around on the piano unfettered by anyones rules... all to my heart's content.

And that was how the madness all started. In college, I took an electronic music course as an elective and that introduced me to the early Moog and Arp synthesizers. I was hooked... the sounds~! the colors~!

Slowly, as starving college student funds permitted, I started buying electronic keyboards... and played and played and composed and composed. I bought one of the early Tascam 4 track cassette recorders and that's when I started studying recording and mixing techniques... I could not get enough.

Fast forward to today... my how everything has changed... but the passionate reasons for making music in the first place have not.

I still have all those early keyboards, drum machines, mixers, outboard effects, speakers, amps... etc., etc... Why? I don't know... I just like them even though I never use them much any more... they just remain as part of my musical journey I guess...

Everything in my Studio today is recorded on an iMac running MOTU Digital Performer 6.0 software. My first computer was a Mac Plus that I wrote my Master's thesis on and after that I had one of the early versions of MOTU MIDI recording and transcribing software. That was 24 years ago... boy, talk about brand loyalty~!

Even though I have a multitude of vintage synthesizers around me (which I do keep fit and running) most of the music I record today is played off a Yamaha MOTIF rack and an Alesis QS8 or one of the various soft synths within Digital Performer itself.

Thank you for taking the time to read these words and listen to the music.

All the best,
David

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