I'm a (L-plate) programmer, hardware hacker and musician currently living around abouts South Wales. I have a particular interest in toys, video games and music - especially the combination of these three things. At the moment I'm spending most of my time developing a project under the title "The Cyclic Series" which are a series of softwares designed to approach electronic music composition with new methods. You can download the latest version of Cyclic for Mac OS X (intel recommended) from my website www.sinehackermedia.co.uk
I spent some time researching video game music, how it is composed, how it functions but more predominantly how it is experienced and engaged with by the player. This has had a large influence on the way I approach my music based soft and hardware projects.
I have played a couple of gigs using my laptop and various bits and bobs, I'm looking at setting up a band in the near future with some of my friends and musicians I have a lot of respect for :) I really enjoy improvisation, particularly involving live electronics and hardware hacks, I'm kinda getting into this myself at the moment (check the tracks above and vids below) I have been a rocker and a dj (and still am a bit of both!). I also created and promoted Newport's first dub-step night 'Bonus Level Bass' which brought some interesting names to Wales last year.
some of my fav music (check them out!): Susuma Yokota, Kangding Ray, OOIOO, Merz Bow, Shuttle 358, Kplecraft, Leafcutter John, Hrvatski, Ryoji Ikeda
some of my fav games: Zelda, Super Mario World, Elektroplankton, Sid Meirs 'Pirates!', Eldar Scrolls IV 'Oblivion', Fallout 3, Loco-Roco and PATAPON!!
my fav toys (!) - Yamaha PSS-790, Yamaha VSS-200, Speak and Spell, the original Dot Matrix Gameboy!!, the Buddha Machine, the Music From Outer Space Weird Sound Generator, and last but not least the iPhone and iPod touch
please visit my new website: www.sinehackermedia.co.uk
