DEREK VAN CHOICE:

Picking up guitar at age four, Derek has spent more than three decades writing, composing, performing, and exploring the sonic depths of most every instrument crossing his path, being most intrigued by those from the East. In the 1990's, his main focus was commercial score and studio guitar work, while still continuing to produce and release his own, independent CD's.

In 1999, he founded "Funk Logic", a company based in northern coastal San Diego County, manufacturing an eclectic line of studio rack filler panels, which he continues to operate today. In 2001, he founded the radio controlled model aircraft company "North County Flying Machines", which was recently acquired by another, local R/C manufacturing company.

A constant throughout, has been all things music and visual arts, with underlying influences heavily rooted in Asia and Africa. His artwork has been displayed in local galleries, in addition to a number of private commission works, as time allowed. More recently, has been a deep immersion into the ever-humbling instrument known as the "shakuhachi", an end-blown, Japanese bamboo flute. The shakuhachi is, arguably, one of the most difficult instruments on the planet to master (if ever), and equally as hard to build. Nonetheless, the journey had begun, and Inga Shakuhachi was born.

Ironically, mutual interest in the shakuhachi was the original conduit to Rhythmlake coming into existence. Also being rooted in "water, wood and stone", it has allowed projects of similar elements to materialize, and the opportunity to combine that essence with the audible and visual art of videography, and everything that Rhythmlake Media encompasses.