Rick Coates
@rickcoates
Saint Stephen, NB, Canada
I started playing music when I traded my first bicycle for my first guitar. I'm still not a good bike rider, but I am a decent guitarist. I first discovered electronic music at Dalhousie University’s Experimental Music Studio in the ’70s, where they had a Theremin, a Minimoog, and an ARP 2600, which they actually let students use. I couldn’t afford to own those instruments then, or now for that matter but, fortunately, virtual instruments running on personal computers have become affordable in recent years and I came back to electronic music. Of late, my music has focused on Deep Listening and spontaneously improvised soundscapes intended to augment other art forms, such as poetry/fiction readings, painting, drawing, photography, dance, and film.