Oddly enough, Endeavour began as a sort of "one-man-band" musical concept.  I loved to improvise ever since I learned to play the piano.  This was more compositional improvisation than "Jazz" improvisation.  I decided that I wanted to make a demo tape in 1994.  So, I began practicing much more to improve my fluidity and timing.  I always had a little difficulty keeping a steady tempo.  At the time, I had three compositions that I had been working on.  All of them were largely improvisational.  Though, at the same time, all of them had some set sequences of notes and chords.  My goal was to end up with about 45 minutes of music.  Those three songs came to about 17-20 minutes.  By March of 1995, I had worked on a few other songs.  So, I decided to start recording.  I finished recording in early April 1995.  I mailed the tape to several friends and family members --some of which who said they enjoyed it.  But I didn't take it any further.  If anyone is interested, I can make a copy for you.  It does include a song that was composed in a very unique way.  I composed the entire song "visually".  All of the tracks were written note-by-note using sequencer software.  In other words, I never physically played the notes.  In fact, it's the only multi-track recording on the tape.

    At the other end of the spectrum, I had taken interest in fractal designs during my college years --initially around 1992.  However, I didn't do any serious work with them until the spring of 1998.  I was working with a program called Fractint.  It's a great program, but it didn't have all of the features that I wanted.  So, I searched the Internet and found Iterations.  This program had the features I wanted and more!  Later that summer, I was doing a search on Infoseek and stumbled upon something that I found astonishing!  One of the sites in the search results claimed that it could produce music from fractal designs!  I immediately went to that site and began to read about this amazing discovery.  Though there were several programs on the site for creating music from fractal designs, one stood out above the rest --Artsong. Why?  Unlike the others, this program uses RGB values and iterative patterns to produce the music.  So, I downloaded Artsong and began experimenting with it.  Though it may not produce a multi-platinum selling album --at least not until fractal music becomes a popular genre-- it does produce coherent sequences of notes.  I was totally amazed!  Therefore, soon after the new Artsong 4.0 becomes available I will make my compositions available on this site.

    Tying all of this together along with my interest in progressive music and several well known "visual" artists I decided to create The Endeavour Experiment.  I picked that title because I feel that all of these artists are striving for something unique by exploring beyond the horizons.