Mark Rownd

If there's a musician who's experienced bringing music alive, it's Mark Rownd. As a composer, Rownd has a distinct style of creating pieces that, much like the sounds in nature, flow together in ever-changing and unpredictable rhythms. Rownd compares his composing technique to abstract painting. "As you start working on the blank canvas, soon the work begins to speak to you," he said. "Once you've created something that speaks on many levels, you've got a piece of art." Like painting, Rownd's music comes alive first as improvisations as he allows the energy and feelings of the moment extend into sounds creating ambient textures and poly-rhythmic percussion. The result is a unique sound that may be fully appreciated only by the deep listener of Rownd's work as he produces rhythms some have described as rising out of the air like heat distortions.