So many different styles of music move me. My mother would sometimes play boogie-woogie on piano. I grew up singing with my brothers and sister: songs of Kingston Trio, Peter Paul & Mary, Harry Belafonte, etc. As the youngest, I often sang high harmonies. Around 8th grade, friends & I formed a rock band. Andy knew guitar, Peter knew keyboards, Walter liked banging on things, so I played bass. Thus began Badger, Badger, Badger, & Carruthers. I played in several bands since. As a bass player, I quickly learned about chords, scales, and rhythms. I grew up enjoying folk, rock, jazz, pop, and what little classical music I heard.
A pivotal moment for me came (c. 1973) when my friends Rick and Carol turned me on to a Primer by Lou Harrison and Harry Partch's Genesis of a Music. These are about Just Intonation (JI), that is, using musical intervals that occur naturally in the harmonic series (the harmonic overtones of flexible strings and many wind instruments). This made a whole lot of sense to me, the physics was clear, and so I began exploring these musical systems, shunning the modern standard compromise of equal temperament.
Of course, this rendered music-making much more difficult, in that standard instruments could not (or not easily) play in JI. For a short period I had access to Harry Partch's unique instruments, and wrote a short piece "Rosier Sands" for them. (The form of that piece was later refined to become the third movement of Fibonacci Suite.) I have two guitars that I have refretted for JI, and a fretless electric bass. Recently, I was fortunate enough to have a wonderful cello player as a friend, who was willing to try playing in JI with me.
The distinct highlight of my JI composing was Fibonacci Suite, for retuned piano, 7 hands, performed in 2001 by 4 friends (I conducted) at MicroFest in Los Angeles, with Lou Harrison in the audience. I had a chance to talk with him afterwards, and said, "I treated the piano as a percussion ensemble," and he replied, "No, you treated the piano as a symphony orchestra!"
Most of my more recent works came about due to the Monterey County Composers' Forum (MCCF). When Steve Ettinger founded MCCF, I joined this varied group of local composers and songwriters. We put on three concerts each year. The performers often include members of the group; many are fine instrumentalists and/or singers. This combination of knowing players willing to perform, and knowing a performance is upcoming, and being encouraged to contribute, has been a great motivator for me to compose. Also, hearing the beautiful compositions of the other group members has inspired me. Without MCCF, I would probably have composed little to nothing over the past many years.
Some recordings of my works can be heard on SoundCloud.
That page shows a chronological  list of pieces (links to SoundCloud) with durations (most are around 3 minutes) and short descriptions.
Scores are available by request.