The short version: Born in Altona/Melbourne/Australia. Grew up in Lara. Went to school in Geelong. Started playing the drums at the age of 10, inspired by his rock'n roll drumming dad. Studied drums/percussion at The Victorian College of the Arts. Sewed his musical oats in down town Melborune. Moved to Amsterdam in '95 to live in a room too small (the dog box) for too long but made some great musical and creative friends whilest also completing an advanced study in performance at DasArts. Now since 2000 lives, loves and plays in sunny Mitte, Berlin. Current music projects include: The understand brown (Classis Rock with Thomas Meadowcroft, Boris Hauf), Mrs conception (Graphic Jazz with Axel Doerner, Jan Roder and Toby Delius), Dairy (Experimental Impro Electronica and Film with Andy Moor, Yannis Kyrialides, Joe Williamson), Ruby (minimal jazz with Margareth Kamerrer and Derek Shirly), Heaven and... (free rock with tony Buck, Martin Siewert and Zeitblom), Half wolf (experimental country with Matrin Siewert and Bois Hauf), Efzeg (viennese masters of improv), Tone Dialing (electro acoustic impro with Jorrit Dijkstra and Paul Pallesen. ) Booklet ("Free Lounge Jazz" with Toby Delius, Joe Williamson), SXS Enterprise (multi media performance with Siegmar Zacharias & Xander de Boer) and solo performances rarely as Electric Bongo Bongo. Steve composes, sound designs and performs regularly in the fields of dance, theatre, film new media performance.
"One of Australia's foremost performers in improvised music and structured sound." Ross Haseldine, Roadhouse Press.
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