Born December 8th 1965 in Springfield Massachusetts. At the age of about five he moved to Indianapolis, Indiana where he began playing clarinet around the age of ten as well as anything else he could get his hands on, in local blues, punk, rap, gospel, folk, and jazz groups through his teenage years. A strong interest in records and films led to hundreds of hours lost in libraries and a developing fascination with avant -garde art and composition. From 82-84 he studied music at the School of Performing Arts in Indianapolis though most of the compositional studies and early record collages were self-taught explorations. This led to a year at the Oberlin Conservatory where fanatical studying and a heavy dose of Duchamp, Cage, Fluxus, Xenakis with introductions to computer music produced a mass of pieces soon to be lost after leaving what he felt was a closed and cynical environment.

The next pieces written after this short and difficult period at the conservatory, were solo vocal improvisations upon arriving in New York in '85. Through this he met and worked with many of the people involved in the downtown NY free improvisation scene of the early 80s who became important influences. As the pieces became more collage oriented, cassette and record sources became more prevalent which led to a pragmatic choice of working with turntables in '88. He began working regularly in various projects of John Zorn's and writing for dance, video, film and other collaborations and first began to tour with Zorn in Europe. The turntable playing was split between improvisations, scored pieces and club DJ gigs at many NY clubs. The split between club work and experimental work ended in the early 90s when the first CD was released, Shock Corridor in '92 on Zorn's Avant label, replacing the turntables with samplers. Then, as now, Zorn was a supportive friend and strong influence particularly from the Spillane, Godard, and Elegy works as well as the community involving people such as Anthony Coleman, Mark Ribot, Zeena Parkins, Jim Pugliese, David Weinstein, Tom Cora, and many others from the NY scenes, although his concentration on electronic collage, working in club culture and the fact he was ten to fifteen years younger than most led to a mixed and somewhat isolated development. The larger community came through recordings, films, visual works and contact with many choreographers, visual artists and writers. As both solo sampler and ensemble works progressed he began touring extensively in Europe and releasing several CDs a year with one or two being major works.

Through out the mid and late nineties he spent most of his time either recording or touring spending less and less time in the East Village (NY). In '99 the touring was taking its toll both physically and in terms of new work. So between 1999-2001 he temporarily based himself in Brussels-Belgium, creating and touring extensively. David now has residency in Melbourne, Australia and shares a home with wife, visual artist Kristi Monfries with whom he has started the record label Metta Editions.

The last four years have seen a greater shift to a wide range of projects with classical musicians, folk musicians, video pieces, collaborations with electronic dance music makers, and solo sampler work both in performance and recording and commissioned works for dance and film. The time Europe included short stints of lectures, radio programming, teaching, children's program's and touring in Australia.

Now since the shift to Australia and the Asian region, the most recent projects are following the second chamber symphony and a continuing series of solo instrument/sampler duos (based on Berio's Sequenza series) is a work based on the Javanese version of the Hindu epic the Ramayana. Similar to the Tower of Mirrors and Satyricon approach, the original text is followed creating an independent narrative collage of acoustic and electronic scored music, samples of old recordings and arrangements of sound effects, language, and various sampler created ensembles. Planned recording in Australia, Java and in Europe will supply a huge range of source material for an eventual CD and performance of live sampler and live video sampler work. He is also presently working on the design of a new sampler NAJO both for sound and image at IRCAM the Paris based music research center.