About The Musician
I, Shane Carey, am a dude. I live in Surprise, AZ, near but not near enough to the Phoenix Metropolitan area, with my lovely wife Kim and three cats: Killer Space Monkey Cat (Kismic), El Chupacabra (Chupy), and Life, The Universe, and Everything (Evvie). I am the accompanist for two Phoenix improv troupes: long-form troupe Apollo 12 and improvised musical troupe The Remainders. I am a recovering IT worker and an aspiring professional musician. I like soup, but not as much as you’d expect.
About The Music
I played the bass guitar throughout the 1990s, and developed a two-handed tapping style that quite naturally led me to the Chapman Stick in 1999. There are numerous models of and features for the Stick; mine is a twelve-string Grand Stick in the Matched Reciprocal tuning, with a PASV-4 pickup block and a GK-2A MIDI pickup on the melody side. On the bass, I played intricate, carefully composed music in a progressive rock vein, but, on the Stick, my M.O. has drastically shifted toward improvisation, which has been my main pursuit since 2001. My early improvisation used only the clean sound of the Stick, but I have gradually added equipment to create more sounds and to add more layers. The music on this website is created with the Stick, using a Digitech GNX3 for melody-side guitar effects and looping, and a Roland GI-20 and XV2020 for synth sounds.