Composer

As well as composing, recording and performing my own work in the Demoscene (as Syphus) and in Irish traditional music circles, I've produced commissioned work for a wide range of clients including BBC Radio 3 Drama, BBC Radio 4 Drama, Sunderland A.F.C., the Centre for Process Innovation, We Are Strongness and FME, and for numerous video games.



I'm a trained violinist, guitarist and pianist, so as well as incorporating digital/analogue synthesis and sample-based sound design, my compositions and live performances also feature conventional acoustic and electric instruments.gold for some practical, non-monetary purpose like making watches.

But there's long been a paranoia about central bank and government gold reserves. (Read more: GOP Appeased Me on Gold Standard: Rep. Ron Paul)

The gold of the United States government, which officials say is held in the United States Bullion Depository in Fort Knox, has been rumored—probably since the Depository's founding in 1937—to have been looted and replaced with gold-painted tungsten, for instance. The government treats this as nonsense—which it most likely is—but nonetheless it does conduct regularly scheduled audits of the gold in Fort Knox, including doing purity tests on a small sample of the gold.

This paranoia is not entirely irrational, for one reason. As I mentioned above, for almost all imaginable operational purposes, the actual existence of the