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And how did this all begin?
 
A good question and the answer takes us a few years back to around 2003 in a rehearsal room in Berlin.  I had been playing rhythm guitar for the band that used the room but the band had broken up and the room was still being shared among the former bandmates for our own individual projects.  I was working out some song ideas in the singer/songwriter vein and finally getting to the point of actually finishing some of my own ideas in an acoustic guitar with vocals kind of form.  All fine and good, but something was definitely lacking, I just couldn't figure out what it was.

One day, while working alone in the room, I got a bit distracted and the old Yamaha organ in the corner caught my eye.  I went over, turned it on and started fiddling around with the numerous knobs and buttons.  After a short while I realized I had actually created something pretty interesting.  To call it a song would be going a bit far, but it was definitely something and this new experimentation stirred something deep inside me.  I continued my experiments with the organ for a few more months before the rehearsal room was given up and everyone went their separate ways - including the organ which belonged to someone else.  And so, almost before it was started, my new project was over - for the time being anyway.

Many years, songs and bands later, I have found my way back to this idea - at least in spirit.  There is no more Yamaha organ to fiddle with so instead I use my trusty laptop and some really great software and then combine it with "real" elements such as acoustic or electric guitar, keyboards and of course, vocals.  As was the original intention, the first few releases were not songs in the classic sense but rather audio "pieces" or "tracks" often containing very sparse vocals and no definable chorus or refrain.  But as the experiments continued things metamporphosed even further and kind of went full circle. I found the songwriter in me showing through more often and melding with the new mad scientist side of me and the results started to become more like songs but with a very different sound and feel than anyting I had produced before.

If you really need to categorize, think of it something like this:

Singer/Songwriter meets Post Rock meets Experimental meets Film Score
meets Ambient meets New Wave meets Industrial...

I think you get the idea.