Using inherited aesthetic categories in the attempt to define oneself, and what one “does”, is usually bound to disappoint. As a composer, song-writer, arranger and orchestrator, I am interested not so much in transgressing boundaries as I am in exploring the creative tension along the lines of genre and style. My intent is for this process to become less and less self-conscious even as I hope to arrive at a more authentic expression of my “self”, paradoxical as this ambition might seem. Composition for me, at its most honest, is the ultimate mode of living with and learning from without fixing; simultaneously humoring and honoring the distinctions and differences that give life its movement and music.