Confluence Music is a term I invented to describe my music, because I knew of no other term in existence that was appropriate otherwise. My music has no particular roots nor is it a rebellion against any music or musical philosophy. I am interested primarily in the places where different cultures meet, and variety is very important to me. I approach each performance as a unique event sometimes with much silence or none at all, completely improvised or completely composed, solo piano, or with an ensemble, and/or many combinations in between.

At any given point in a performance I may move from something resembling Latin Jazz, to Free Jazz, to something resembling East European or Arabic Folk Tunes, to Minimalism, to a Punck waltz, to Polyphonic Serialism, to Bi-Tonal Blues. I say 'something resembling' because I am not copying, or trying to emulate these styles, but incorporating many of my own, as well as others ideas and approaches and attitudes, and weaving them together in new and unique ways.

It's my intention to make music that stimulates the mind and the body, that's intellectual and sexy and meditative and ferocious and poetic and athletic and revolutionary and spiritual and political and humorous and loving and that will shake people awake, starting with me first.

In a solo performance I primarily play comprovisations (free improvisation, compositions, and improvisations based on pre-composed material). Each performance can be approached in a variety of ways; a free improvisation can be completely spontaneous with the intention of not relying at all on anything preconceived; or several improvisations from a single seed that is preconceived or not; or a composition played note for note and a second section improvised from material or concept of the composed piece; or a full performance with or without pause that foreshadows and afterglows composed material through quotes that is fully realized earlier or later in the performance respectively; or tiny improvisations/compositions with space between each, moving from one type of musical material to the next which may or not be radically different from what was just heard.

There are, of course, many more possibilities, but the most important criteria for me is that I approach each performance as a unique event. I have many hours of potential material at my fingertips/synapses. One performance may include snippets of almost everything I have or, on the other hand, it may be one long improvisation based entirely on one motif. All of these possibilities could be completely saturated in dissonance approaching 'noise', or favoring original comprovisations based on world musics, or a combination of both which is the most integrative, and I believe, the strangest and inspiring of all.

This musical approach I have developed gives me an almost infinite flexibility, allowing me to reach many types of audiences, confront the problems of the world, and offer a challenging sonic response. By both critics and audience members, my music has been described as absolutely unique but also compared to musicians as diverse as Bela Bartok, Gamelan music, Cecil Taylor, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Captain Beefheart, Hindustani music, Thelonious Monk, and Conlan Nancarrow, among many others. However, all maintain that it is it's own thing. I am honored that my music conjures sonic images of all these people/groups, but this diversity of relations is what's most important to me. Of course none of us live in a vacuum, we are all influenced by each other, and also by so much more than just people. What's necessary to me is that I make an authentic contribution to the world of music and humanity.

Finally, I have performed in concert halls, warehouses, libraries, jazz and rock clubs, as the soloist in piano concertos, in a West-african drumming troupe, in the desert surrounding the Nevada nuclear test site on Shoshone land, on t.v., radio and in riots, punk bands, many free improv ensembles, with famous people, infamous people, unknowns, old masters, and eager youngsters, academics and hippies, for modern dance and opera, sometimes only for myself, and sometimes only in my mind.