Spagirus - "A person  who can seperate the true from the false, the good from the bad, the pure from the impure, yet reject duality and cleave to unity" - Paracelsus

I have been working in the area of experimental musick since the mid nineties. After working mostly in collaboration with others for a few years I began to also create works on my own using various modalities of Digital Signal Processing. My second album, Entelechy Sow (self-released), was the beginning of my processed field recording work. Ever Now Those Before (released on Maritimefist Glee Club), was the result of my computer based composition skills being more fully honed. I continued working with DSP and field recordings with two more albums (The Remaining Leaves Were Not There and A Leaf On Plastic, both self released). I actually began Spagirus playing  the mountain dulcimer and processing it in various ways with digital and analog effects (my dulcimer work can be heard on the albums Quanta Mandala Mundi, Vile Idiot Hunger, and Lose The Mind Altogether and is the substance of my most recent live sets and my new album Shravaka). I have now returned to the dulcimer as my main mode of producing musick because I prefer the physicality of playing this instrument (coupled with various other instruments of the world and small toys) and the range of interesting sounds I can get beyond just using the computer. I have done most of my creative work while going to school in Norman, Oklahoma. However, I recently moved to Austin, Texas to find more performance possibilities than were previously available and to be in a more artistically congenial atmosphere.

Ultimately I am making musick as an offering to potential listeners to give them something aesthetically invigorating and useful. I want to provide an audial experience for people that is both a practice in attentive listening (which can serve as practice for attentiveness in all areas of life) and provides something that they can continue to revisit while discovering something new each time. I use current technology, coupled with acoustic instruments and organic field recordings, because I think these are the best ways to produce sound that is subtle, nuanced, and interestingly challenging. I seek to provide a sonic environment that will help listeners grow and enrich their lives in some way. By providing sound works with minute variations to pay attention to I am inviting people to participate in an exercise in listening and a space that has qualities that may not all be noticed on the first or even second listen. 
"Like meditation, listening gives one an inner strength, and this strength may be accumulated in ever greater quantities as one listens." - Margaret J. Kartomi

A binary coniunctio makes the fusion of audial implementation with transcendant states possible. Audial cut ups for high tech shamans.

Sample .mp3s of my prepared mountain dulcimer work:
Hermit Fire
Lose The Mind Altogether
Path Ov No Distinction (Live at Ok Electric 8-21-04)

Sample .mp3s of my processed field recording work:
Coniunctium Animorum
Cracks in the Puddle