Dave's love of electronic music started as a teenager when he first heard Tangerine Dream's Cloudburst Flight.
During the early 80's he played synthesiser in a number of rock bands, as well as simultaneously composing his own solo music.
In 2003 he had sold all of his synthesisers and had moved over almost completely to a virtual instrument environment using Cubase SX3, only using the guitar as a "real" instrument.
Since 2006 he has issued a number of albums on his own label "Terrainflight".
His music has been likened to "Berliner Schule/Berlin School style jazz-rock".
Bruce Gall of ARFMs "Sunday Synth" has remarked on the crossover style of his playing, invoking comparisons to electronic artists Tangerine Dream, Jean-Michel Jarre, Klaus Schulze, Kraftwerk, and the progressive sounds of Pink Floyd and David Gilmour solo work, Ash Ra Tempel, Mike Oldfield, Steve Hackett, Brian Eno and King Crimson.
His debut album, "atmospheric", was released on his own label on the 7th January 2007, after taking just over 6 months to complete.
His second album "icon one" was released on the 1st January 2008, and by this time was already attracting the attention of podcasts such as the Tangerine Dream Fan Zone.
During April 2008, SynGate started producing re-issues of the first two albums, however the agreement was short-lived and SynGate ceased production of the SynGate re-issues in June 2009, however the original terrainflight editions are still available.
"landform" followed afterwards on the 19th December 2008, and was notable for the first time a guest musician, Robin Hayes on cello, had played on a computerchemist album.
"aqual measure" was released on the 14th November 2009. Uwe Cremer, otherwise know as Level Pi was the guest musician for this album and played guitar on the title track.
By now, computerchemist was getting airplay on ARFM (UK) - including two hour long special interview shows, Harborough FM (UK) Terry Hawke - including live telephone interview, KPFK and WDIY (US FM radio), Radio WAF (Germany) and podcasts TDFZ (Tangerine Dream Fan Zone), Hypnagogue, Kozmik Ken Experience (Aural Innovations) amongst others.
A collaboration project started in July 2010 between Computerchemist and "Nemesis", ex-Hawkwind dancer and singer has produced several tracks, some of which were initially released for free under Creative Commons licencing which is available on the computerchemist website for free download, with the prospect of a full album at a later date entitled "Chronicles of Future Present".
Computerchemist was featured on WDIY's Galactic Travels show with Bill Fox, as the August 2010 "Special Focus", where each album was consecutively played back-to-back each week.
His latest project is taking shape and involves the conversion of seismograph readings into musical form. Entitled "Music for Earthquakes", it was inspired by the 4.8 richter scale earthquake in Hungary in early 2011, and featured on the national Hungarian news channel Hir24 and Hungarian English Language news site pestiside.hu shortly afterwards.
bio info from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computerchemist
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