I spend my days as a lowly, back-office corporate attorney and as much of the rest of my time as possible in various creative endeavors. I try not to let my lack of talent get in the way of my love of songwriting, and I have been writing songs since before I had any kind of musical instruments or any recording gear, just writing lyrics and singing Beatles-esque oohs and aahs. But once I got a four track cassette recorder I was off to the races. I “upgraded” to a Korg digital recorder in the 1990s and eventually discovered Logic.

I set up my first semi-legit home studio in the early 2000s and dubbed it Squirrel Haven. Years later, I moved, and built Squirrel Haven 2 in my new residence. Quite recently I moved again and so Squirrel Haven Studios 3 is not yet properly set up, but I do the best I can out of my home office.

I discovered the Immersion Composition Society after its web-presence had mostly faded away, but was fortunate enough to be around for its facebook group resurgence during Covid. I participated in 10 or 11 ICS day sessions and you can find the songs I created during those sessions on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-850450512/tracks

I play many instruments with low proficiency but am almost competent on guitar and bass. I do what I can with virtual instruments. I’ve written sea shanties, funk and jazz instrumentals, reggae, and folk tunes, but most of my songs are in a pop or rock style, if they manage to rise to the level of being in a recognizable genre at all.

I use he/him pronouns.

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