Sullivan is a trained musician and sound engineer who hails from New York City.

He arrived in July 2003 after 6 months making a record in New Zealand, prior to which he had travelled widely in France, Holland, Germany and Italy as well as a brief sojourn in South America ("not a girl" he assures us, "a mountain...").

Having washed up on Fukuoka`s gentle shores, he appears to have settled down, temporarily at least. He claims to be developing a detailed if entirely unwanted knowledge of the local transport systems and maintains he spends most of his waking life aboard trains and buses that fling him among a dizzying array of workplaces.

"Finding time for the good stuff is the hard part" he says "and vice versa..."

Sullivan`s formative years were spent in the powerful cultural force field that is New York`s art culture. He dived headlong into its underground art, film and music scene. His college (he studied Music and Sound Recording) playgrounds were the Washington and Union Squares in Manhattan followed by a year living next to Wall Street, in what was then the shadow of the World Trade Center Twin Towers.

His exposure to things Japanese began in junior high school, watching English-subtitled versions of the "Bubblegum Crisis" series. This electrified him and triggered a wider interest in all things Japanese.

He is one of the two foreign members of "Art Space Tetra" (an independent arts collective). An active musician, he runs "Escalator Audio" a freelance recording venture. He is currently working on his first Japanese CD and LP releases in both solo and collaborative projects.

Train timetables permitting....