Rhizomorph is a self-taught guitarist, keyboardist and producer raised in the region known as the beach cities area of southern California and now living in northern California.  His parents, Robert and Marilyn, were fairly unmusical folks and thus it was somewhat of a surprise when young Rhizomorph began showing remarkable musical aptitude at a very young age.  Along with his twin brother, Brian (now deceased, sadly), he would play Beatles and other songs, harmonizing the Lennon and McCartney vocal parts and playing guitar and piano, much to the amusement of their parents and parents' friends at many cocktail and bridge parties so common to that era.

Mid-childhood was spent absorbing not only Beatles but other highly influential late 60s and early 70s rock, as well as much of the wonderful soul, pop and R&B music then populating the Los Angeles AM-radio airwaves.

Later, as a teenager, Rhizomorph would go on to play guitar in rock bands. First came cover bands, but by the time he was 18, he was pushing his bandmates to do more originals and showing precocious writing and arranging chops. He was influenced during this period by many of the great bands flourishing at the time:  Blue Oyster Cult, Kiss, UFO, Boston, the list goes on and on. Young Rhizomorph's taste was eclectic, however, and he was just as indelibly influenced by the fabulous jazz-rock of that period (Return To Forever, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Frank Zappa, Tony Williams Lifetime, etc.)

During the 1980s, Rhizomorph enjoyed participating in the "metal craze" that swept the nation, leading a band called Axis (among other names) as guitarist, main songwriter and lead vocalist. But even before that decade came to its cocaine-addled, spasmodic end, he sensed that there were other ways to skin the musical cat, and around this time is when he began to tire of the complexities inherent in being dependent upon other musicians, and started to experiment with the then-embryonic MIDI-incarnated electronic gear: sequencers, synthesizers, baby Macintosh computers, and samplers.

He had heard some of Brian Eno's pioneering ambient efforts in the early 1980s, but it was not until the mid-1990s that Rhizomorph became seriously gripped by the psycho-cinematic charms of the various forms of ambient and other electronic music rapidly developing at that time. An affection for Indian music dating back to the Beatles' experimentation with it also paved the way for his enjoyment of the emerging electronic forms such as Goa which fused classical Indian music elements onto sequenced synthesized parts.

That journey down the path of electronic experimentation which began for Rhizomorph in the mid-1980s continues to this day, evolving along with the technology itself. Part of that evolution includes the marriage of acoustic and organic sounds with synthesizer sounds, an approach that he is a firm believer in, due to the humanizing and balancing effect that he believes the former has on the latter when they are combined together. He feels that synthesizer-only music is always interesting at first, but can wear people down fairly quickly. When synth-based sounds are combined at about a 50-50 ratio with organic sounds, he says, it is easier to listen to without fatigue and also makes for an infinitely more varied musical palette.

The launch of this website marks the release of Rhizomorph's debut CD of ethno-ambient electronic music entitled Xenofilika. Soon to follow will be the site for Neurochemical Records, the micro label entity which he has formed to facilitate his releases in the electronic genre. Also soon to be launched is Serious Soundscapes, a boutique audio production venture aimed at creating a library of unique licensable musical segments for the film, television, music and multimedia industries.