Donny

For as long as he can remember Donny has had an interest in music. From his humble beginnings playing itsy-bitsy spider on the severely out of tune upright piano in his parents basement, to the clarinet as part of his high school band, and finally settling in with MIDI based sequencing. He’d always been fascinated how so many different elements that in general don’t sound all that good by themselves, can come together in harmony to cause a specific and usually planned response, or emotional reaction.

Early on his tastes in music varied greatly. Everything from Country to Death Metal seemed to be “music to his ears”. However in 1994 he was introduced to a whole new style of music that he had until then never even heard of before. Specifically two albums changed his entire musical outlook. First was Skinny Puppy’s: Too Dark Park which seemed to have the uncanny ability to make him feel eerie by using sound combinations and rhythms so completely foreign to him than it almost seemed inhuman.  Secondly was Frontline Assembly’s: Tactical Neural Implant. He fell in love with the complexity of managing a seemingly infinite number of textural layers, each doing a specific job within the composition and each placed precisely where it needed to be never too much or too little.

Later that year Donny partnered with Phillip Stringer to create a project that would, (after several name changes), be known as Nightside Eclipse. It was this rough and humble beginning where he was learning everything he could about sound design, sound engineering and song writing. After completing and releasing a full length album he left NSE to begin working with Pete Greko on DeLIEN’s second album, “Rust”. Shortly thereafter he settled in with Marc to create Siegemachine.