The Department of Continual Decay started as a home-recording project with several home tape decks, a Y-splitter, several 'toy' keyboards and a couple of Digitech effects processors in 1987. Since then, DOCD has been through a number of different phases. Since 1995 or thereabouts, most music has been produced inside of a laptop with various inexpensive and/or Open Source software. Stylistically I like to experiment, like polyrhythms, and have a general penchant for melody. Other than that I go all over the place from conventional composition to cut-and-paste noise/ambient collage.