Obvious stuff first I suppose. I write Electronica music. Chillout, Techno, Dance, Trance, heck I'd write music for every genre - electronic or not - if I could! lol I write music because it comes to me to be written and I know from experience that if I don't "create" something, I get very very depressed. lol So for me, I write music that I enjoy listening to. period. If other people find it nice to listen to as well, all the better! but my driving need to write music stems simply from the desire to enjoy the moment of creation itself.

I took 8 years of piano as a kid (my folks "made" me) and honestly, I was never really that good at it. I discovered by chance that I had a knack for sequencers and MIDI. My piano teacher at the time had a computer and synth which we learned from (record and playback were handy teaching tools), and eventually I was showing him how to do things using the software instead. After that, I begged cajoled and pleaded my folks to get me a keyboard - which they eventually did (an Ensoniq SQ2), and I started using a program called Cakewalk (version 1.0 on the monochrome screens if you can believe it!). Very little of those early days of creation remain, but it instilled in me the desire to get professional training in audio engineering - which I eventually did during my college years.

My artist name Soul Summation came about when I tried to succinctly label the style of music I write. I write from a very personal standpoint, and I usually write with the utmost care given to the mood, the emotion, the feeling.. the general aura I suppose, of my own state of mind. Interestingly, this has had some very intriguing consequences - I wrote the song Genesis around the time my daughter was conceived (1 month before we knew), followed almost immediately by the song Taking Flight. You do the math on that one....

My interests are in philosophy, metaphysics, and good ol' classical science fiction. So many of my songs are philosophical in nature - though I gotta admit a hankerin for some solid dance floor grooves occasionally too! lol

For a recent recap of my songs, I'd say read up on my artist site blog (click the link under the player to the right). I would love to hear from you and will certainly try to return the favor!

Ben