STYLES:

blues, jazz, world music, accoustic, ambient/soundtrack, TECHNO


PRIMARY INSTRUMENT:

guitar (supportive keyboard dabbling)

INFLUENCES: Beatles, Robben Ford, Johnny Winter, Bruce Hornsby, Mike Bloomfield, Miles Davis, Tommy Emmanuel, Terry Kath, Mike Stern, Jeff Rona, Scott Henderson, Pat Metheny, James Newton Howard, Eric Johnson and Jeff Beck, Massive Attack, Endorphin, Nick Warren, VAST ( Jon Crosby ), Frank Zappa, Air, Jeff Buckley, Chemical Brothers.

AMBITIONS:

composition of music with a unique style that may fit a television drama, website, film or record label requirement.

RECENT PROJECTS :

composition of music for a 2 part satirical (1997-99) series on small business for Video Education Australasia

supply of music for a computer simulation game (the Pretendo Corporation)

supply of music for “World of Style” (Channel 31)

supply of music for showreel for Fran Haarsma Productions

supply of music for Kine Graffiti: 30min Lonely Planet piece “Destination Sydney” recently purchased by the ABC for international distribution; two 59sec pieces for Racing Victoria; Melbourne Uni Undergraduate piece “Degrees of Freedom”; 30min promotional piece for King Island; industrial piece for a fuse company (20min) titled “Options for Circuit Protection”

supply of music ( two 3min pieces - one ambient, one Chemical Bros ) for Management Consulting firm Clark Hummerston (website/ training purposes)

supply of music for Dept of Employment and Training Science Trek series “Lets Rock” ( two 12min pieces)

supply of VCE backing track ( Sisters ) for Wotdot Editions

supply of demo reel for local cover band “after hours”


OTHER EXPERIENCE:

teaching (music technology), writing (educational Business Management text published by MacMillan, 1997), lecturing