Past | Present | Future

Music's story begins before civilization, through songs passed from generation to generation, before the advent of written language. Later accompanied by instruments, music found a home through the church in Europe, ushering in the era of notation.

The rise of technology dominates our current milieu. The creation of new dramatic settings, like film, television, or video games, changed and expanded the role music plays in our lives.

The knowledge of classical music holds a foundational understanding of generative music principles, an understanding of which offers musicians a variety of opportunities. Organizational principles of music serve as a foundation for creation. Large-scale structures self-generated by pattern-based development are the results.

It's my understanding that an intrinsic understanding and balancing in the creative act of the expressive underlying meaning of a variety of sounds, gestures, and organizational principles is calibrated through a musicians' innate proclivities and instincts, their culture, the depth of their knowledge, the thoroughness of their training, and a certain receptivity.

An experiential knowledge and ability to communicate functional emotive content through music in live settings is an accurate reflection of the concepts above.