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music has saved my life more times than
I can count whether it comes down to
listening to great records or going to
see all their artists perform or
performing your own music either by
yourself or with others
music can create a connection that
stimulates both your heart and mind and
when it’s really good it can give you
goosebumps and make your hair stand on
end well I grew up playing guitar the
main instrument I play now is the dull
sitar it’s a combination of a
traditional Appalachian mountain
dulcimer and a guitar and while I see
music as a fairly limitless art form I
somehow manage to adopt one of the more
limited instruments there is compared to
a guitar it’s actually missing strings
and it’s missing frets and therefore
it’s missing notes but I found it within
those limitations I’ve been able to
create more interesting things that I
may have never ever created on a guitar
I first found this acoustic guitar in
2007 by complete accident it was one of
those moments that just felt like fate I
began working it into my live
performances and eventually I became so
enamored with it and audiences were
always so fascinated with it that it
became my primary instrument it had the
ability to be simple but within that
simplicity it inspired music that felt
so genuine and new to me while still
having a familiar and nostalgic sound it
was capable of creating more of a
but it was also capable of producing a
I figured out ways that I could use
electronics with the instrument to
broaden its sonic palette and I use
looping to make solar performance more
interesting but I still wanted more I
have sounds and music in my head that I
wanted to hear but I didn’t have the
instrument that was like fully capable
of doing it I wanted something that was
set up like the original acoustic doll
sitar but built more in the style of an
electric guitar but you can’t just go
down to this local music store and buy
an electric guitar so I had to figure
out how to design and build it this
first one I built in 2012 and it picked
up where the limitations of the acoustic
guitar left off but I had to figure out
new ways to process and amplify it in
order to achieve the sounds that I was
dreaming up slowly I gathered a lot of
equipment it took lots of time and money
to get there but I’ve always felt that
when it comes down to what you’re
passionate about there’s no such thing
as too much and then one should never
compromise when it comes to your art
eventually I built two more electric
guitars each time experimenting with a
little bit more different features so
that I could fully achieve the sounds
that I was dreaming of I’d always read
about some of the pioneers of early
electronic music and how when they had
new ideas they had to actually create
their own instruments and their own
equipment because it didn’t exist and
sometimes I feel like that spirit is
gone you always have people telling you
that everything has already been done
but I really feel like that that’s just
not true I think that even if you were
doing something that’s just ever so
slightly different than what’s been done
before it can still be groundbreaking
especially if it’s meaningful to you
personally I really feel lucky anytime I
get to feel just a fraction of that
spirit I play music and I build
instruments to keep my head straight and
my heart beating I do it because I feel
like I couldn’t breathe if I didn’t but
what makes it really really worthwhile
is way
and others happen to connect with the
sounds that you’re pushing through the
air and that’s the best feeling in the
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music has saved my life more times than
I can count whether it comes down to
listening to great records or going to
see all their artists perform or
performing your own music either by
yourself or with others
music can create a connection that
stimulates both your heart and mind and
when it’s really good it can give you
goosebumps and make your hair stand on
end well I grew up playing guitar the
main instrument I play now is the dull
sitar it’s a combination of a
traditional Appalachian mountain
dulcimer and a guitar and while I see
music as a fairly limitless art form I
somehow manage to adopt one of the more
limited instruments there is compared to
a guitar it’s actually missing strings
and it’s missing frets and therefore
it’s missing notes but I found it within
those limitations I’ve been able to
create more interesting things that I
may have never ever created on a guitar
I first found this acoustic guitar in
2007 by complete accident it was one of
those moments that just felt like fate I
began working it into my live
performances and eventually I became so
enamored with it and audiences were
always so fascinated with it that it
became my primary instrument it had the
ability to be simple but within that
simplicity it inspired music that felt
so genuine and new to me while still
having a familiar and nostalgic sound it
was capable of creating more of a
but it was also capable of producing a
I figured out ways that I could use
electronics with the instrument to
broaden its sonic palette and I use
looping to make solar performance more
interesting but I still wanted more I
have sounds and music in my head that I
wanted to hear but I didn’t have the
instrument that was like fully capable
of doing it I wanted something that was
set up like the original acoustic doll
sitar but built more in the style of an
electric guitar but you can’t just go
down to this local music store and buy
an electric guitar so I had to figure
out how to design and build it this
first one I built in 2012 and it picked
up where the limitations of the acoustic
guitar left off but I had to figure out
new ways to process and amplify it in
order to achieve the sounds that I was
dreaming up slowly I gathered a lot of
equipment it took lots of time and money
to get there but I’ve always felt that
when it comes down to what you’re
passionate about there’s no such thing
as too much and then one should never
compromise when it comes to your art
eventually I built two more electric
guitars each time experimenting with a
little bit more different features so
that I could fully achieve the sounds
that I was dreaming of I’d always read
about some of the pioneers of early
electronic music and how when they had
new ideas they had to actually create
their own instruments and their own
equipment because it didn’t exist and
sometimes I feel like that spirit is
gone you always have people telling you
that everything has already been done
but I really feel like that that’s just
not true I think that even if you were
doing something that’s just ever so
slightly different than what’s been done
before it can still be groundbreaking
especially if it’s meaningful to you
personally I really feel lucky anytime I
get to feel just a fraction of that
spirit I play music and I build
instruments to keep my head straight and
my heart beating I do it because I feel
like I couldn’t breathe if I didn’t but
what makes it really really worthwhile
is way
and others happen to connect with the
sounds that you’re pushing through the
air and that’s the best feeling in the
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