One With The Computer

One With The Computer, a one-man MIDI-recording virtuoso heralding from Baltimore, Maryland, introduces a new and different breed of electronically produced videogame-influenced instrumental progressive rock for the masses. Using nothing but his own home computer, various pieces of installed software, outboard reverb effects, and his creative ingenuity, One With The Computer creates music reminiscent of many different styles with a sound like no other. One With The Computer aspires to use his music to broaden the horizons of others and to take them beyond the limits of their imaginations. "There is beauty in simplicity."

One With The Computer, whose actual name is Kirk Bradford Myers, has had a long running interest in music and all genres of which nearly his entire life. He is an avid and dedicated fan of the music of other artists, and is often spotted in the crowd at shows in the Mid-Atlantic area around his hometown of Baltimore, Maryland. A self-taught keyboard and piano player, he has been writing and recording his own instrumental music since the age of 14, involving himself in several short-lived self-created solo projects. In 2003, he envisioned and created the studio project 'One With The Computer' as a way to consolidate and release much of the progressive instrumental musical material he had written since 1987. He has his own label, KBMyers Records, under which he is releasing the One With The Computer material as well as that of several other solo projects, including 'Prog X', another progressive rock project yet to be re-invented, and 'Stinkhole Messiah', an up-and-coming comedy rock project.

"I usually don't play my music from this particular project live, although I remain open-minded to the idea. I consider myself a much better music composer than a performer. However, I do attempt to play my recorded music to as many people as I can, and really get a charge out people's reactions when they hear it, be they positive, negative, or otherwise. Music that elicits any reaction at all, no matter what that is, is much better than music that elicits none, and is music worth writing and listening to for whatever reason."

"My influences mostly encompass progressive, instrumental, electronic, and videogame music, and any combination thereof. I also listen to jazz, blues, and classical music. The bands and musicians that have influenced me most are: Ozric Tentacles, Rick Richards, Joe Satriani, Nine Inch Nails, Rush, Robert Plant, Genesis, Led Zeppelin, Smashing Pumpkins, Queen, The Alan Parsons Project, Steve Vai, Yes, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. My tastes is music are quite variegated..."

Hardware: Compaq Presario PC with Creative SoundBlaster 128 installed running SBPCI Synthesizer at 8MB as it's sound source. Alesis Microverb III rack-mount unit for overall atmospheric reverb effects. --- Software: Jazz++ 4.0 MIDI-sequencing software for recording, multitracking, and mixing. Goldwave 4.26 sound-editing software for sampling, final mastering, and soundfile editing and manipulation. This is all, of course, subject to change...

"The use of computers to make music has often been frowned upon by outsiders and an industry hungry for talent. Talent, in my opinion, is not a measure simply of the actual tools one uses to create his/her music, but of his/her proficiency at that tool or musical instrument. Musical instruments can be defined as anything at all that a person can express themselves musically through, and computers, much like guitars, keyboards, basses, and drums, are legitimate musical instruments people may choose for this purpose. In the right hands, much like other musical instruments, computers can become tools for unlimited and boundless creativity and musical freedom, and I stand behind their use entirely."