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BIOGRAPHY David was raised in suburban Christchurch, New Zealand. As a small child he showed an interest in learning the piano, and was dutifully enrolled in lessons by his mum. These continued until age 15, when he abandoned the piano after discovering the music of Hawkwind, Can and Future Sound of London. Some time later David and some friends began to play punk gigs around Christchurch as ‘The Bains’, but eventually he left the band to study Audio Engineering in the lush and elemental surroundings of the South Island’s West Coast. His pre-occupation with MIDI and synthesisers led predictably to techno music, and he was involved in throwing possibly the first Rave ever witnessed in the remote coastal town of Greymouth. He produced dance music under the moniker ‘Akira’, playing live sets subsequently at two of the legendary ‘Gathering’ dance-parties at Takaka in the South Island. Afterwards, however, he would grow disillusioned with the so-called ‘techno’ and ‘IDM’ genres. Using the name ‘Dirac’, his music began to explore drones and layered electronic treatments, largely eschewing percussion sounds in favour of guitar, synthesis and recorded (miked) sources. In 2003 the ‘Asymmetry’ album was completed following a 12-month gestation, to the muted applause of the half-dozen or so people who were to hear it at the time. Over the next few years he began to improvise computer-music at various art-gatherings in Wellington, the bohemian capital city of New Zealand. Audiences responded well (in small numbers) to his sometimes subtle, sometimes harsh melding of textures and library recordings, live-inputs and computer-drones. There coincided a highly productive period of musical output, although no new album was to surface. In 2006 he moved to London UK, where he continues to reside, slowly assembling his studio piece by piece and struggling to hear his monitors over the traffic, sirens and long-haul flights on approach to Heathrow. An album and live-appearances are expected in 2008- see 'news' for updates.