Bio

celadon, also known as Eric Maia, is an industrial musician in Seattle. He supports himself by programming when he is not wandering around recording sounds and transforming them into music. His wife Thea is an excellent artist.

celadon has been active lately promoting his new CD and performing with his experimental trio In the Deep Museum.

Gear

I use a Powerbook G4 with an MBox and Ableton Live and ProTools LE for composition and editing. I capture the sounds with a minidisc recorder. I also have an ESQ-1, CZ-1000 synth, dbx 266XL compressor, Alesis MEQ230 graphic EQ, Zoom 1201, Digitech RDS 7.2 delay, and some stompboxes for sound production and processing. Software includes Amadeus II, Reason, OhmBoyz and OhmyGod, and a whole slew of SMEX VST plug-ins (particularly Ambience, SupaPhaser, and Crazy Ivan).

Recently I have been having fun with a little electric bass which responds well when attacked with a bow. I'll make noise with just about anything, though - toys, scrap metal, crazy handmade instruments...