Mike Swinchoski Mike Swinchoski is a composer, music theorist, arranager, and musician. His musical roots stem from American blues, pop, soul, and gospel, however most of his compositions have been heavily influenced by the experimental aesthetics found in the progressive rock of the 1960's and 70's as well as jazz from bebop to the present. Primarily a self-taught musician, he began playing solo jazz guitar in Austin, Texas as well as composing his music of many styles in the early 1980's before becoming the bassist in a band called "Left of Center". The band moved to Boston in the mid 80's where he began supplementing his income working as a security guard at the New England Conservatory. There he exchanged musical ideas with other composers and found that they both had a lot in common. In addition, his cousin Don, a conductor and teacher helped Mike learn more about the formal aspects of contemporary composition. This helped him provide context to the many constructs and theories he had developed in his own works. After the band broke up in late 1989, he continued writing for other bands and produced a solo album "Hold" in 1994. The album combined straight-ahead progressive rock with a number of his non-pop compositional devices. While writing this more accessible music, he continued to gravitate toward experimental pieces that were concerned with reshaping various aspects of musical form. He began recording examples of his more abstract material, releasing the albums "Tomorrow" in 1999, "Drawing Board" in 2003 and "Waves" in 2004 (all available on his label Swinco Records). The subject of many of Swinchoski's pieces are abstractions of patterns he finds in nature, society, and technology. He currently works in the computer support field to make ends meet while continuing to refine his ideas and write new material.

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