I compose music using my own techniques for approaching music technology, in an effort to express the ineffable. I have delved into research on deep listening and am deeply interested in studying how and why the experience of music affects us. Many agree that the experience of live music can be profoundly different due to factors like volume, environment, and surroundings; listening to your favorite song by Modeselektor on an MP3 at home is vastly different from experiencing the same song performed live at a festival.
Why does music and sound evoke emotions in us sometimes, while leaving us indifferent at other times?
What aspects of sound connect to our minds and memories?
What prompts us to enjoy the experience of certain sounds and music, while despising others?
What makes music so nostalgic?
What are we connecting to when we listen to music and sound?
These are all questions I am seeking answers to in my approach to composition. Why have I chosen to dedicate my life to music? Because life itself is inherent rhythm: our heartbeat.
Why do people feel the most connected to the spiritual, the divine, and the sacred when they are having a musical experience? I am interested in how the sound of music can make the mind cause physical reactions from the body and emotions. With my modular synthesizer live set, I focus on it with extreme clarity and without distractions; it is a form of clear mind.