A Criminal Record Crime stories and music by Keith Snyder, SJ Rozan, Michael Seidman, and Joe Wallace "The last track is SJ Rozan reading from the first chapter of Reflecting the Sky, her newest Lydia Chin novel, with a lovely electronic score that seemed to open up the sky..." —Chris Aldrich, Mystery News	Music for Writing Night Scenes Electronic ambiences that don't get in the way of writing, created for my own use while writing the fourth Jason Keltner book —Keith Snyder	Obediently Self-Entertaining Music, stories, and songs, including "The Wizards," featured at The Blue Moon Review —Keith Snyder with Blake Arnold, C.A. Mobley, Dawn Fratini, and Kathleen Haaversen
Flow of Soul Electronica with operatic vocals —Keith Snyder and Kathleen Haaversen	A Small, Out-of-the-Way Café Live electroacoustic music, sounds, stories, and characters. These tracks are the basis of the new Cybermotion release from Alias Zone, Lucid Dreams.	Heart Arias and art songs by my wife, #1 MP3.com opera singer Kathleen Haaversen
I played with Kadara for three years before the band opened for Alpha Blondie and then broke up. Around that same time, I released Perseids, a cassette album of electronic music that was featured in Keyboard magazine's DISCOVERIES column. A while later, I joined The Cosmic Debris, which consisted, at that time, of electronic flute player Richard Bugg (the founding member) and poet Timothy Trujillo. By the time I left three years later, Timothy was pursuing his own projects and the group included rhythm loop/found sounds guy Chris Meyer, signal processor Richard Zvonar, bassist Lucky Westphal, and actor/writer Blake Arnold (my writing partner, who had no idea why a music group would want an actor/writer). (2001 Update: The Cosmic Debris, remixed and overdubbed, is now Alias Zone, which is getting good reviews and industry buzz.) Scattered in that period were coffeehouse performances with Lee Coltman as an instrumental duo called Kites and Dragons, and later as a sort of funky pop trio (with guitarist Nyema) as Earthquake Weather, performing songs I wrote and a few of Nyema's West African highlife pieces. Along the way, I've scored a few short films, including Session 52, which screened at several international film festivals, and 1 is for Gun, which won a silver award at the Atlantic City Film Festival. Sell in Hell is another, currently in post-production. I also did all the music for Norton Disk Companion (part of Norton Utilities for Windows 95) and almost all the music for Symantec PC Handyman. Recent projects include a big multimedia live event, The Ship That Lies at the Bottom, which incorporated 90 minutes of original fiction by known and unknown authors, integrated with 15-minute live "mini-opera" for two singers, contrabass, electronically altered woodwinds, synthesizer, and digital audio. Just before that, i released CD of crime and music, A Criminal Record, featuring the themes for the 1999 and 2000 World Mystery Conventions and readings-with-music by SJ Rozan and Michael Seidman. Another ongoing project is music for my wife the opera singer to sing, accompanied by synthesizers and percussion. The group name is Flow of Soul. A song cycle based on text from the life of the physicist Richard Feynman, for baritone, soprano, piano, and Kawai K5000S additive synthesizer, premieres May, 2001 at Riverside Church in New York. With Lee Coltman, who plays percussion on the Flow of Soul tracks, I provided the music for a national Tropicana commercial. I now live in Rego Park, where I have a digital music studio with a lot of cables. I don't perform live right now, but I do get the itch sometimes. Stay tuned...

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