Zen comes from a Tech Background, having worked as a software developer/engineer focused mainly on multimedia development and support. Ive worked with multiple platforms , everything from database design/administration to senior support for Sprint, GTE, IBM, Marconi, Franklin Templeton, and others. Ive also run an organic Heritage Turkey farm , and graphic and web design business in Alamosa Colorado, and had a restaurant/catering business in Denver, back in the day.He always had a love for music, growing up with piano lessons, playing trombone, and drums. I set music aside for many years, returning to playing briefly in the mid 90s , when he was working in Multimedia, focusing on coding in general midi c, preferring roland, mark of the unicorn,korg and Avid platforms. "This is my first Main focus on writing and playing creatively, and not doing everything in low level languages, or scripting. Ive watched in anticipation and waited until technology hit a good threshold of price, quality, design, and ease of use, before really getting serious about content creation. Im loving this particular focus, and had forgotten the inner joy and satisfaction in self expression. I only resumed music because I was so torn up inside with PTSD , and a couple of other physical injuries, I became so miserable and had to do something to alleviate, and heal. The V.A. gave me a guitar, which i traded for a banjo, but couldnt play it due to nerve damage in my left arm, so I traded that for a m-audio 69 controller and picked up a recycled mac laptop from the thrift store, installed garageband, and started playing, and here I am today". The m audio, and the old mac being long gone, He isnow using Native Instruments, Akai Professional, and PreSonus for hardware and software platforms, and using VSTs and creative sampling to create tracks." Ive been doing my own artwork and video, but havent focused at all on the visual part of my production, choosing to narrow my focus to finding the most expediant/cost effective/ intuitive way of creating content, and learning how to bring my vison of music and vibration to my friends all around the world. I am currently working on associating an image and a face to my music".
Music is life. Everything vibrates, and has a resonant frequency, a song. Music is literally alive, and i try to create visions i have as a shaman.
to express my self, and to heal my self and others ....
my self
house of the rising sun
Ministry, Tinlicker, Above and beyond, Lords of Acid, The Crystal Method, Orbital, Front 242, Cocteau twins, Love and Rockets,Public Enemy, Bootsy Collins, George Clinton, Funkadelic, Janes Addiction, Chemical Brothers, Prodigy, Skinny puppy
as a veteran, i suffer from PTSD, and i became so miserable, i had to find a way to begin healing inside, or i was going to self destruct, and music helps beyond anything else. I quit playing piano, and drums in my early teen years, and didnt play again for slmost 30 years, now, it is my life, my passion, and all i do,
be the change you want to see, and as Plato once said, "physician, heal thy self".
electric
today, it seems like music is all about the money, and becoming famous, i play and make music because it was locked up inside of me for so long, i have no alternative, but to let it out, and let it be.
what do i think of drooble? i dont know yet, i just joined.
getting the sounds to correlate with what i hear in my minds eye
yes, i try and promote other musicians, and their music
persistence, discipline, good karma
VXD, look him up on soundcloud, he is an amazing artist from Spain, and just released a fabulous single called reconcile. he is really talented