Alex Temple's lyrics & chords

Bio: I was born in 1983 and started composing when I was 11, on a family trip to Italy. My earliest interest was Bach, and after that, Hindemith, Prokofiev and Bartók. When I was 15 I discovered rock (by means of "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "I Am The Walrus"), and when I was 17 I discovered the experimental rock underground (by means of The Olivia Tremor Control, Kukl, Mr. Bungle and Thinking Plague). Those two discoveries got me interested in combining ideas from the scored-music world and ideas from the rock world, and since then I've b...read more