I make melodic, analog, thickly textured electronic music. Often, I play several instruments at the same time, like a live orchestra of electronic music. The music is musical - no blips and bloops - and relies on complex but pleasant harmonies. I want you to like my music and to keep liking it after the first ten seconds and after the first play, so I try to make it beautiful and interesting at the same time. I try to express meaning through the music: The reason I use mostly old, analog electronic instruments, is that I find that they create the electric tension that I see between humans and their environment, in empty spaces like the prairie and the arctic - but also between the individual and the concrete urban voids. It is in that void we find the human voice. To me, it is interesting how these thick bonds between humans and their environment seem to be the same whether in the city, surrounded by people, or on the plains or ice sheets, surrounded by rock, ice, and skies. This is where I get the music from. I go to the prairie, the high north, and the cities around the globe, I look at the people in their world, and I try to put music to those connections that we can’t see but that we can feel are there; the echo of the meetings between humans and their space. Voice is nothing if it can't resonate. The music is also defined by what it is not. There are no loops, playing over and over. No “programming”, where a computer plays the music. No repetitive beats. Drums are mostly played by hand, and the tempo varies - this is music played by humans, not by computers. I use old instruments from before the time of "machine music" to try to make the music engaging and interesting - to me, music is a constant interaction between the instruments, the musician, and the listener.