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Welcome. My name is Keith; I’m a composer of Live-Electronic & Computer-Music living in Brooklyn. After winding down activities considerably during a domestic sojourn to Australia & the near-contiguous pandemic, I have resumed fielding offers to travel & perform music.

Please get in touch (below) if you have something specific to propose; I’m all ears.

  • Formative experiments in software-based micro-sequencing & generative rhythms coupled with novel digital signal processing techniques (as Hrvatski) gave way to the ongoing exploration of glacially-paced shifts in timbre & tonality (“Playthroughs”) segueing into the pairing of relatively primitive analogue-computing concepts & contemporary sound-tools to yield deceptively complex, self-sustaining musical frameworks (“Generators”, “Occlusions”, & “Redactions”). In parallel, repeat-commissions from the GRM to compose for & diffuse Electroacoustic works on the Acousmonium have brought a childhood fascination with Musique Concrète & Tape-Music full circle.

    While initially concerned primarily with making records (for kranky, Planet µ, Editions Mego, PAN, Nakid, & countless others) in the interim focus has shifted to performing, with over 500 concerts under the belt; many at the world’s most prestigious festivals (CTM, Dokumenta, FAQ, Geometry of Now, LUFF, Mutek, Présences Electroniques, Semibreve, Skaņu Mežs, Sonic Acts, Terraforma) & houses of culture (the Banff Centre, Berghain, Cafe OTO, EMPAC, Fylkingen, the Guggenheim, HEK, L'Auditori, Maison de la Radio, MASS MoCA, Paradiso, Pioneer Works, Podewil, REDCAT, Saint Vitus, Sydney Opera House, Volksbühne).

    Gaining access to the prototype Paperface & SF Tape Music Center 100 systems at HUSEAC kicked off a life-long love affair with “Period” Electronic Instruments, leading to works (“Multiples”) for a litany of obscure & regional designs including those by Buchla, Coupigny, Delta Music Research, EMS, Hordijk, Moog, Publison, Serge, Steiner-Parker, & the Triadex Muse. This interest has culminated in collaborations, residencies, & teaching engagements at the Columbia Univsersity Computer Music Center, Elektronmusikstudion (EMS) Stockholm, Melbourne Electronic Sound Studio (MESS), National Music Centre (NMC), Swiss Museum and Centre for Electronic Music Instruments (SMEM), & Willem Twee.

    In addition to all of this, a side-career working in Music Distribution (first apprenticing at Forced Exposure, then running Mimaroglu Music/Sales, Broken-Music, & now Alpha State NYC) as well as ongoing research projects into the deepest recesses of Early Electronic & Experimental Music (most famously materializing as Creel Pone) & their associated radio programs on Montez Press & The Lot have kept me busy. I’ve been commissioned to write articles & essays on topics ranging from Ambient Music, to the “Ghost In The Machine” phenomenon, to figures such as Roland Kayn, Harry Bertoia, and Don Buchla & Pauline Oliveros. I’ll field the odd request for audio post/production work, beta testing & music hardware/software consulting & development; anything to stay busy.