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• UnauthorizedBiography: Bruce is a technical writer by trade, and a music addict by admission. He is also a MIDI hobbyist with abiding interests in composition and timbral exploration. Bruce's earliest pieces, which date back to his teenage years, involved the distorted plucking and clangings of office supplies and kitchen utensils played back on cassette decks at different speeds. These experiments, in what he calls 'conceptual noise', would sometimes form standalone sound collages. Other times, he would use them as novel backdrops over which a friend would play rhythm guitar while Bruce recited 'nonsense' poetry. His formal training in music is limited to the single introductory theory class he took in college. Since then, Bruce has studied classical harmony and counterpoint; jazz, atonal, algorithmic, and aleatoric approaches, and Schillinger's techniques. He says he has mastered none of these, but has incorporated elements of all of them into his work at various times. Since his adolescent sonic travesties, he has continued to acquire more sophisticated tools—samplers, drum machines, sequencing software—and to exploit their aural possibilities. But, says Bruce, none of these tools holds as much promise as Kyma. As a new user, he looks forward with excitement to designing and processing new sounds and finding interesting ways to compose and combine them.

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