Mark Sheeky for Eclectic

I began composing and producing music in the late 1990s, initially inspired by the need to create music for the games which I developed. My earliest musical experiences were the 1960s pop music of my parents, and Catholic hymns, but Jean-Michel Jarre, and particularly the music of the Commodore 64 were my prevailing influences on my first work. In 2002 I began development of my music software, Prometheus. All of my music since has been created and produced using this.

I became a full time artist at around 2010, and this changed my musical output. I began to perform piano live, and collaborate with visual artists to stage small contemporary art performances involving music. Influences at this time included avant-garde and fringe artists, from Scott Walker and Nick Drake, to The Shaggs, Legendary Stardust Cowboy and other music which I played for ArtsLab, a radio show which I produced and presented from 2016. In 2017 I began performing music with Deborah Edgeley to form the poetry group, Fall in Green.

In 2019 I conceived artist Marius Fate to explore pop/rock music. My current influences are wide ranging. Music, like all art, is about human to human emotional communication. A music machine can teach us nothing about what it means to be human, so in this digital era, great effort should be made to craft our human stories and feelings. I have been making music of various sorts for most of my life, but, for me, the journey is just beginning, and the greatest art is yet to come.