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boston, ma
usa
music is an art that is absolute and true
it cannot lie to its audience
it is pure, universal and around us, all the time.
conveying that universal truth with the music and sound that i create is why i make music.
all my life i've been surrounded by, wrapped up in, and involved with music. as a child, i grew up in a large family and being the youngest of 9, my older brothers and sisters were always listening to the music of the late 70's and early 80's. my mother would listen to an easy listening radio station when she would clean the house and the smell of pledge always brings to mind the sounds of the carpenters, dionne warwick, the 5th dimension, neil diamond and the like. since then i would fall in love with songs i heard on the radio and i would analyze the sounds, the melody, the harmony, memorize every note and lyric.
in school, i pushed my way into music class with no prior experience or knowledge of how to read, let alone write music. my mother's father who i never met was a violin player and i do remember wanting to play the violin in 4th grade and have just recently purchased a violin to fulfill that childhood wish. one of my closest friends in 4th grade who still is to this day was the most talented drummer our school had ever seen. she was obsessed with karen carpenter as a child and she and her brother (who has perfect pitch) were gifted in music. i wanted to play in the band with her, so i crashed band class and basically told our music teacher that i'd learn to play any instrument. the cymbals were my first. then eventually i moved onto other auxiliary percussion instruments like the bass drum, the snare, timpani, xylophone, marimba, glockenspiel, tubular bells, vibraphone and in my last year of school played in an orchestra which was heaven...
i became fixed on getting into that world of playing complex classical music and reading those pages of unintelligible alien writing which is notation.
presently with computer technology at all of our fingertips and ease and fluidity of musical composition software, how could i not dive right back into the never ending world of music and its creation. now i can afford to have thousands of instruments that sound like the real thing. i not only have a violin real and CG, i have an entire orchestra. thank you apple.
all of the music that i've created so far i've done on a 17" apple powerbook g4, with 2gb of memory and a 1.33 ghz powerpc processor, a m-audio radium64 controller, a micro korg synthesizer/vocoder, m-audio firewire recording interface, an m-audio icontrol and one shure microphone. presently, i have just upgrade to a macpro 2x quad-core intel xeon 2.8 ghz and currently i am working on projects for winter 2009.
VOS
Constantly inspired by the following:
tracey thorn
swing out sister
desi
ebtg
goldfrapp
air
the aluminum group
the carpenters
sergio mendes & brasil '66
miguel migs
lisa shaw
hird
saint etienne
zero 7
the weekend players
bent
skye
the fifth dimension
dionne warwick
rufus wainwright
swan dive
röyksöpp
daft punk
the thievery corporation
one two
blue six
kraftwerk
design of boston
More Info:
VOS' MySpace Page
Check out my WebDJ playlist at VOS' Riffin DJ Page
VOS Official Website
More to come...
usa
music is an art that is absolute and true
it cannot lie to its audience
it is pure, universal and around us, all the time.
conveying that universal truth with the music and sound that i create is why i make music.
all my life i've been surrounded by, wrapped up in, and involved with music. as a child, i grew up in a large family and being the youngest of 9, my older brothers and sisters were always listening to the music of the late 70's and early 80's. my mother would listen to an easy listening radio station when she would clean the house and the smell of pledge always brings to mind the sounds of the carpenters, dionne warwick, the 5th dimension, neil diamond and the like. since then i would fall in love with songs i heard on the radio and i would analyze the sounds, the melody, the harmony, memorize every note and lyric.
in school, i pushed my way into music class with no prior experience or knowledge of how to read, let alone write music. my mother's father who i never met was a violin player and i do remember wanting to play the violin in 4th grade and have just recently purchased a violin to fulfill that childhood wish. one of my closest friends in 4th grade who still is to this day was the most talented drummer our school had ever seen. she was obsessed with karen carpenter as a child and she and her brother (who has perfect pitch) were gifted in music. i wanted to play in the band with her, so i crashed band class and basically told our music teacher that i'd learn to play any instrument. the cymbals were my first. then eventually i moved onto other auxiliary percussion instruments like the bass drum, the snare, timpani, xylophone, marimba, glockenspiel, tubular bells, vibraphone and in my last year of school played in an orchestra which was heaven...
i became fixed on getting into that world of playing complex classical music and reading those pages of unintelligible alien writing which is notation.
presently with computer technology at all of our fingertips and ease and fluidity of musical composition software, how could i not dive right back into the never ending world of music and its creation. now i can afford to have thousands of instruments that sound like the real thing. i not only have a violin real and CG, i have an entire orchestra. thank you apple.
all of the music that i've created so far i've done on a 17" apple powerbook g4, with 2gb of memory and a 1.33 ghz powerpc processor, a m-audio radium64 controller, a micro korg synthesizer/vocoder, m-audio firewire recording interface, an m-audio icontrol and one shure microphone. presently, i have just upgrade to a macpro 2x quad-core intel xeon 2.8 ghz and currently i am working on projects for winter 2009.
VOS
Constantly inspired by the following:
tracey thorn
swing out sister
desi
ebtg
goldfrapp
air
the aluminum group
the carpenters
sergio mendes & brasil '66
miguel migs
lisa shaw
hird
saint etienne
zero 7
the weekend players
bent
skye
the fifth dimension
dionne warwick
rufus wainwright
swan dive
röyksöpp
daft punk
the thievery corporation
one two
blue six
kraftwerk
design of boston
More Info:
VOS' MySpace Page
Check out my WebDJ playlist at VOS' Riffin DJ Page
VOS Official Website
More to come...
News 
| Spring Into Summer | May 31, 2007 |
O.k. it's been a while since I've been here...
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| Fall | September 3, 2006 |
I'm getting ready to begin some sessions for the fall and winter...
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| Cleaning Up... | August 20, 2006 |
| Oh boy. | April 26, 2006 |
Hello again... I'm so sorry for those who thought that I've vanished...
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| Work vs. Art | November 22, 2005 |
I've been working like a dog lately and trying to balance business and personal as well as some sort of art life is not easy....
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Music
| Title | Genre | Released | Plays |
| One | Electronica | Feb 27, 2005 | 641 |
| Super Conductor | Electronica | Feb 27, 2005 | 587 |
| Titan Non Stop | Electronica | Feb 27, 2005 | 432 |
| Blue Light | Electronica | Feb 27, 2005 | 491 |
| Transoceanic | Electronica | Feb 27, 2005 | 750 |
| High Road Home | Electronica | Feb 28, 2005 | 748 |
| Space | Electronica | Mar 26, 2005 | 736 |
| Pitch Fall | Electronica | Mar 26, 2005 | 556 |
| Sol | Electronica | Sep 20, 2005 | 477 |
| Intake | Electronica | Sep 23, 2005 | 488 |
| Shifting | Electronica | Oct 11, 2005 | 513 |
| Up Above | Electronica | Oct 20, 2005 | 600 |
| Listen | Electronica | Nov 20, 2005 | 807 |
| Love Is Automatic | Electronica | Aug 30, 2006 | 520 |
| Glamourous Sounds From The Ghettosphere... | Electronica | Mar 20, 2007 | 349 |
| Siva | Electronica | Mar 20, 2007 | 588 |
| Blind | Ambient | Jun 3, 2007 | 302 |
| Project 8 | Ambient | Aug 5, 2007 | 287 |
| Union | Classical | Sep 7, 2007 | 278 |
| Love Is Automatic (featuring Tom Shipp) | Electronica | Oct 13, 2007 | 506 |
Favorites
| Title | Artist | Genre | Plays |
| a legend in tinseltown | Tinseltown | Electronica | 845 |
| Why | DigitalGreyOrchestra | Electronica | 681 |
| breakbeat | gracko | Hip Hop/Rap | 497 |
| three reasons | gracko | World | 473 |
| Possibly Maybe.... | Homebrand | Pop | 945 |
| S O L A R F L A R E DnB | ghost | Electronica | 1479 |
