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Crystal Awareness Website

Hopefully this page will provide an adequate
look at my interests and lead to positive and creative interactions.

a quick synopsis: reading (non-fiction mostly), aromatics (perfumery, essential oils and incense), music, electronics,

art, gems and minerals, sound for video

Music

i have been creating electroacoustic music since 1981. my main instrument for many years was the electric bass
played through successively larger and larger amplifiers and lotsa FX pedals.
i play small percussion such as bells, hand drums,shakers, chimes, tibetan and quartz crystal bowls, and
synthesizers and effects devices some of which i built.
Recently, i am creating sounds primarily with computers
until i set up a proper hardware jamspace.
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my musical creations are electro-acoustic, space, drone, psych*delic,
trance inducing, improvisational, noise & sound sculptures.
I'm mostly involved in very loosely structured improvisational jamming and novel uses of new sounds.

Essential Oils and other Aromatics

Since 1994 i have
been involved professionally in the trade of aromatics, essential oil
blends and perfumes.  my original interest in aromatics began
with incense which i sampled extensively from the time i was 14 years
old.  in the summer of 1994 i started making custom blended
massage oils and selling them at concerts and music festivals from 1995 until 2009.
I entered the essential oil trade with about 12 oils,then 20, and then 100s.
Extensive study of essential oils, perfumery, and aromatherapy became part of my daily life.
I am still studying and formulating, and started work in natural perfumery in the early 2000s. GOSD

Gemstones and mineral specimens

i was very much involved in gems and mineral trading, buying, selling, and gifting and receiving pieces.
I became interested in minerals in the summer of 1994. i'm still somewhat puzzled by how deeply into them i am.
GEMS and Minerals page i'm redoing this whole section

Art

As a preteen i spent a lot of time drawing, coloring, and painting.
Space-aliens, witches,mushrooms, ufos,and dragons were common themes in my early drawings.
Many years later i started to do mandalas with ink, colored pencil and some watercolor.
My memories of going into the city for supplies and scoring a few more pencils still makes me smile.

Breathwork, gemstones, yoga, psych*delics, meditating, hiking, and watching the sun and moon
rise almost every day contributed to my artist vision at this point of my life. ART