I am an avant garde musicmaker, composer etc. I never compose anything based on a perception of what's hot or anything like that, but follow the creative impulses of spirit, soul and body whether composing a composed piece of freejamming to see what comes out. Some of the things, well, a lot of the things, I do are unclassifiable to me. I do tend toward the kinds of sounds used in heavy metal (Black Sabbath was one of my earliest influences and favorite bands), progressive and punk rock, and my technique inclines toward blues. This is generally true whether I'm playing the electric mandolin, which is my primary instrument nowadays, bass guitar, my first instrument and primary for most of my musical career, or guitar. Most of my compositions are lyricless because I possess no words or language to express what I put into sound.