e o
Composer
EO began composing in his early teens, creating scores for brass quintet and chamber orchestra. Around the same time (circa 1984) he began experimenting with a Roland Juno 106 synthesizer and an MSQ-100 hardware MIDI sequencer. Two dozen years, many bands and a couple degrees later, these two trends endure - intertwined, contrasted, hybridized, mutated. In many ways this interrelationship of acoustic and electronic music mirrors his interest in the merging of natural and synthetic evolutionary processes in the potential technological singularity - as written about eloquently by Ray Kurzweil (who also incidentally gets credit for inventing the sampler).
To listen to samples and collages of EO’s work, please visit soundsliketree.com.
EO’s recent work includes explorations of and collisions between Indonesian and Balkan musics and their wild-eyed offspring with Gamelan X and Brass Menazeri. In his work with UV-light dance-theater troupe ArcheDream for Humankind he is actively exploring interactive, multi-media, surround-sound, immersive environments and taking another look at the American Dream.
