What's my music like? I'm not sure. For me, music has always been a coping mechanism, a stress relief. I play music when I don't have any other way to express my thoughts. I have very jumbled up thoughts sometimes -- it's a medical condition called "scrambled egg brains" -- and music is often the only thing that makes sense to me when I'm really scrambled up. My main instrument is piano, and it has been ever since I was a kid. I would listen to my mom play the upright piano in our basement when I was too little to talk yet, and it brought me endless joy and fascination then. It still does to this day, and I find myself playing piano for at least an hour every day.
As I grew older, I became interested in other instruments, too. When you play as many instruments as I do, you'll notice a strange phenomenon start creeping across the creative parts of your meat-brain. You'd think that all the different instruments would all start to blend together (and in some ways, they do -- I still conceptualize melodies as a combination of piano and trombone technique in a sort of synesthesic twitch), but for the most part, you find yourself thinking of each instrument as more and more different from each other. It informs how I approach arranging -- each instrument is great at a specific thing, and has specific things that only it can do. Things that make it unique. Things that are unmistakable. I strive to bring out the character of each instrument -- it's not that I'm just "playing music" on a french horn, for instance -- rather I am playing french horn.
So how many instruments can I play? You'll have to listen to my music and find out for yourself :)
I've released more music than I know what to do with (literally) and I have more albums than I can count (again, literally). If you know what you're looking for, and you snoop around on the internet long enough, you could probably find about 30-40 different albums I worked on under various names and with various projects. Some of them probably don't exist online anymore, though.
My best attempt at a chronological discography of just my solo music:
Space King Battery
Six or Seven Songs, Volume 1
Six or Seven Songs, Volume 2
Severed Head
Six or Seven Songs, Volume 3
The Day Has Come
The Sunrise Club Goes to Sleep
The B-Sides Club Goes to Side B
The Wonderful Things I'll Do
Purgatory Sounds
Sympathizer
Sit and Wait
Stand and Act
We Hold Hands and We Jump
Sheridan
Bizarro World
Take Up Space
Arcana, Vol. 1
Little Hints of Light
Rabbits
Arcana Continua
