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When I recorded Contra la Puerta, I never really thought out doing the material live. Mostly because I haven't really seen any electronic music performed live in an interesting way.

I've had a lot of highs in my life and a lot of lows, some pivotal experiences, and in ways I feel like I've already lived a couple of lives.

For electronica music, David Linton has been doing this series called Unity Gain, which is pretty cool.

But that's something that I like about scoring film: it makes me reach out of the parameters of my self, it requires me to do things musically that I wouldn't normally do left to my own devices.

And when that's working, the sum can be greater than the parts.

And I don't know where I'm heading. I mean, I've got a pretty good idea of what I want in life.

But Contra la Puerta was done mostly in the opposite way, starting with sounds and melodies.

If the finest hour is now, then I'll always be in it.

I grew up outside of DC, New York state, and Connecticut.

And I think that I'd be a natural for scoring horror movies.

With Frat House, at times I needed to make music that would reflect what these fraternity brothers might actually listen to, but still keep it within the realm of a score; it still had to lead the viewer through the scene, or just help create the mood.

Then I took 8 years of French Horn, first jazz, and then classical.

As a kid, I used to go see all the jazz players, Oscar Peterson, Stan Kenton, Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespe.

I think that one of the strengths of Cop Shoot Cop lay in the different, and at times, clashing personalities, Ideally, I want to have both ways of working in my life.

In scoring, I usually start with a sound or group of sounds, searching out what feels right.

I do remember being in high school and trying to go to an Outlaws concert, but I was too drunk and ended up in trouble with the police at some truck stop on 95 in Connecticut.

Also, differences of opinion can be creatively stimulating as well as frustrating.

I'm from all over the Northeast.

But things can happen in a band, or any type of collaboration, that would not otherwise happen.

I actually went to film school and was making experimental films for a short time, so it wasn't such a leap.