It’s one of the interviewer’s standard questions: if you could have been something else, what would it have been? Well, I would like to have been a musician, painting instead with the geometric sound that moves people in a deep and mysteriously primal way. In my naïve younger years, I wanted to understand the magic of it and taught myself to play the piano and the guitar, and read books on music theory, hoping that I too could perhaps create my own inscrutable, wonderful noise.

It turns out that it takes quite a bit more than a dabbler’s interest to be good musician, but it is a joy to compose - even poorly - and so music has been a constant companion to my other creative activities. It was not until 2007, however, that I was able to cobble together a small recording studio where I could craft my own (rather less than perfect) recordings of my many compositions. Composition and recording are time-consuming endeavors; I can dedicate less time than I'd like (although more time than I should) to my beloved hobby, and so additions to this page will be intermittent. But I humbly offer them here for those that might be interested: musical interpretations of the themes of Mythic Naturalism...