The work of Edge Effect is an attempt to blend high-art sensibilities with Punk Rock's do-it-yourself ethic. My main focus is dark-ambient electronic music, but I'm also engaged in video work & other artistic projects.

Since the widespread application of electronics in music, the music that has been produced has become something that producers painstakingy create in a piecemeal fashion in private, without ever entering into a direct dialogue with their listeners. As much as possible, I want to return to the "pure" state of live performance, to create true interaction between myself, my work & the audience.

Even in this "golden age" of music, there was a stage in the creation of music where the composer worked on a score in private. This is no different to my vision of how electronic music is created: Edge Effect is partly improvised, but pre-preparation also plays an important part.

My methods of creating electronic music are a blending of avant garde & more traditional techniques. I reject the current academic philosophy of seeking to control every aspect of timbre, & instead act as what could be termed a "synthesiser hacker", allowing sounds to grow organically by a process of improvised adjustment of parameters. I tend to employ conventional scales, chords, keys, & modes rather than abandoning the western even-tempered scale. But my work tends to be devoid of rhythm & melody, focusing instead on evolving, dark-ambient textures that I use to try to evoke eldritch images of inner worlds of dreams & hallucinations.

To me, my work is akin to painting pictures with sound: each work is a window into an imagined landscape, hanging frozen in time. Originally, Edge Effect grew out of my involvement with Thee Temple Ov Psychick Youth, & as such it seeks to act as a gateway from the limits of everyday experience into a magical inner world where dreams can be made real.