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In Groups: Amnesia Quartet, The , Creator Dad , Dali's Daughter , Life Garden , Maybe Mental , Zangpo
I was born in Columbus, Ohio Feb. 9 1957, lived in this area until 1966, then moving to Phoenix, Arizona where I still live today. I spent my youth believing I would someday become successful in visual arts. By my late teens I realized this wasn’t a particularly satisfying activity, my true creative love being sounds and visions. By 1978 I began experimenting with reel to reel tape recorders, tape loops and ‘found sounds’. I was also an avid music fan and was familiar with a wide variety contemporary and experimental music's done up through this time. (World music, electronic i.e. John Cage, Stockhausen etc, jazz, progressive and so on.) During the summer of 1979 I took an independent study course in synthesizers and then began what has been my on and off obsession for the last 25 years, experimental music. I have worked in a variety of ways, as a solo artist, in groups, purely electronic, purely acoustic, but always first and foremost using the studio as my one real instrument. I claim no actual musical talent, nor do I claim any real creative success. I have released a number of cassettes and cd’s, and played live hundreds of times, none of which was ever to a very large audience. All puns intended, my timing was always just a little off, either too soon or too late to be of interest to more than a handful of people at the time. All this is fine with me now, although it was quite frustrating when I was yo0unger. I have done what I enjoy the most, the act of creating sounds and visions, and have both provided some entertainment and influenced a few people along the way. W. David Oliphant
