I want to focus on simplicity.  The simplicity of the sine wave, the simplicity of the straight line, the simplicity of a non-complex space.  Simplicity is actually quite difficult.  Simplicity, compounded by the oppressive notion of ‘art’ can be over whelming at times.  To put it simply, simple is hard.

I like working with basic materials, materials that are available to anyone; wire, wood, sound, light.   These materials are things we encounter every day, but we encounter them on extremely complex levels, especially sound.  The sounds we hear and make are so very difficult, so very complex, that it is not all that easy to distinguish exactly the components that we are hearing.  This one of the reasons I like to work with sine waves in my music.  Theoretically, they are the most basic of sounds, and can be utilized to create any sound.   In this way, they are often the most over looked in electronic music.  They are the sound that is hidden, that which is forgotten.  By many composers and sound artists, the sine wave is considered too basic, to dull, to disinteresting to even touch.  It is banal.   

There are lines we over look ever day, the edge of a roof, the straight line of a telephone pole, the myriad of lines that we find in all of our larger kitchen appliances.  We take these lines as a given, and overlook their beauty.  There are other lines that remain hidden as well - the line of transmission of information to a satellite, the line of light beaming through to nowhere.  It is only when we frame these many lines that we begin to notice them.  They are the basic tools of everyday life, and we have filed them to the background of our notion of living.

As for the Theremin, that can be summed up quite quickly- it asks the question: what of obsoletion?  What happens when things become old, out of date, and hold years of baggage that may or may not apply to what it can do now?  Again, I put forth the notion of simplicity.  By taking on the archaic, the simplicity present in two antennas.

Where does ExO SkeL fit into this?  Well, that brings in another set of questions.  With this instrument, I ask the question as to the nature of the performer, the roll they take on stage.  When the possibilities are endless, when an instrument no longer transmits sound but information, and can create any illusion desired by its performer, what is left?  What is the purpose of having a person on stage, illuminated by video, flooded with light, and immersed in sound that does not come from anything on or near the performer.  Where is reality in this equation?  To create simplicity from illusion, this is the current track in my art.