When I started writing music for games, I was just using my regular name, but at some point decided it made sense to consolidate my two names for simplicity’s sake. Those experiences were the foundation of my pre-academic music education.Īfter high school, I attended but eventually dropped out of a design program in order to go to music college, and started working on games through a blend of internships, and a bit of luck with having some carryover familiarity from my chipmusic work as Disasterpeace. I spent a few years making guitar recordings before getting more into computer music. It was a great sounding amplifier, and regretfully I decided to sell it years later during an inactive period in my playing. I loved playing pentatonic, odd-metered power chord riffs and I found the sound of a distorted guitar mesmerizing. I took ownership of my grandfather's 1960's Fender Vibrolux Reverb. As a budding guitar player, I was big into bands like Tool, Led Zeppelin, and Rage Against the Machine. I flirted with the guitar growing up but didn't take it up officially until high school, and started writing music shortly thereafter. The money was minimal, usually 20 - 50 dollars per job, but it was a start. eWrestling was where I got my first real taste of what it's like to be a freelancer. ![]() I also did a lot of websites at this time. They would seek me out to make artwork for their wrestlers or logos for events. Being interested in graphic design, I ended up making graphics for a lot of people. ![]() It's essentially a form fan-fiction, where you create a wrestler. It gave me an impetus to get into creative writing. It's not about statistics or roster management, but about writing. I had dabbled in fantasy basketball and football, but eWrestling isn't like other fantasy sports. That evolved into an interest in web design and the internet in general.Īs a teenager, I went through a pretty serious wrestling phase and stumbled into a new hobby, fantasy wrestling (or eWrestling). I used to screw around with Microsoft Word templates and make fake certificates and brochures, all kinds of stuff. I would make fake newsletters for the neighborhood, and fake companies as an excuse to design logos. I spent my childhood drawing, writing stories and experimenting with software. It really started for me with a love for making stuff. My mom's love for Joni Mitchell also rubbed off on me. I really liked the Christian band dcTalk, the music from the Peanuts (Vince Guaraldi), as well as the Beatles, grunge, rap, and a little later on Nü Metal. The music of my early youth was varied but influenced by a religious upbringing. ![]() At eleven or twelve, I started messing around with my mom's Macintosh - she is a graphic designer, so that was around and that was where I started with getting into being creative. ![]() My first real interests were sports, video games, computers and visual design - drawing and making stuff. Despite my behavior it hadn't occurred to me to delve deeper into music. When I was little, I used to love using my hands as percussion, slapping tables, my stomach, and clicking out rhythms on my teeth. My mom sings and plays the piano, and my sister has been singing since she could speak. My step-father was the music director of our church and in a Beatles cover band called 'The Blue Meanies.' He would hold band practice in our basement, and I would go down there to play the drums. I grew up in a musical household in Staten Island, NY. Dropped out of a design program to go to music college, and started working on games through a blend of internships, and a bit of luck with having some carryover familiarity from my chipmusic work as Disasterpeace. I started playing guitar in high school and started writing music around the age of 17 or 18.
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