well, in a word, yes, i do.

hey, that's a fair question.

one thing that makes me a little unique, i guess, is that i seem to really dislike being tied down to just one musical style. i play in a bluegrass band, my solo acts (which are described below) are, well, difficult to describe, and i've gotten some other types of music recorded and performed.

my band is called 'the harmony creek string band.' i'm working on creating a page for us. let me know if you are in urgent need of a bluegrass band in the central missouri region. mostly, we work for food.

yeah. i play hammered dulcimer pretty well, and do so at least once a month at the artisan, for lunch. i have always felt that the relaxing sound of a hammered dulcimer helps digestion and stimulates critical thinking. but i do other solo stuff, too, and that's where it gets a little more interesting. first, a story.

yeah, probably.

alright, so, i took the couple of years that everyone took. i was in the early grade-school years at the time. i had no desire to focus or put in the effort that is required when one cares to be a quality pianist, and accordingly, i quit. more correctly, i was quit by my folks--i think they were just tired of putting up with my lack of practice. again, this is a normal tale repeated across the country in countless households. (it probably takes place in other countries, too, but i wouldn't know about that.)

anyway, i sang in choirs and stuff, and my junior year in high school, some time after a very brief flirtation with electric bass, i got an acoustic guitar. i learned it without really taking any lessons, and started leading worship for a high school group i was a part of (k-life of columbia). went to college, and quickly realized that there would always be a better guitar player than me (in my case, josh shive and jason herbig). a nice thing, though, was that these two individuals, as well as some other absurdly talented musicians allowed me to play with them.

so the point of that part of the story is that i was motivated to expand horizontally, instead of vertically. i figured, 'hey, if i'm never going to be the best guitar player, maybe i can be the best guitar player/mandolin player.' well, i tried that, and got sort of good at mandolin, then started playing hammered dulcimer (thanks to the absurdly gifted ben shive, and the uber-talented ross cowart), then dobro, then bouzouki, then penny whistle, accordion, harmonica, bass, and whatever else was laying around. singing, too.

i bought a boomerang. i then run a bunch of mics and instruments into it, and it records me, there in person, and then i go about building a tune. and, if i successfully stay in tune, then everyone wins and has a nice time.

probably not. and i still come cheap, 'cause i'm not famous.

well, to make a long story short, we have these things called encounter services at my youth group. very basically, they are just dedicated worship services of an hour or so long, designed to strip away all the other parts of a 'worship service,' and leave, well, only the worship, mostly through music, but through whatever else is appropriate, too. being a creature of choirs all through my life, i always put some gentle, choral music on (barber's agnus dei, golovanov's otche nash, biebl's ave maria, purcell's hear my prayer, o lord, lauridsen's o, magnum mysterium, that sort of thing). anyway, i thought that was a very worshipful way to start a service, but after a few of these, my youth pastor respectfully said "um, do you have anything else there?"

so, i said, "hey, i wonder if i could make some ambient techno." so, i did. it's all over on this page.