User:NOgden/sandbox

Neon Gnats is an electronic dance musician born in 1988. He currently resides in Rock Springs, Wyoming where he works as an IT Help Desk Analyst for the hospital there. He currently has a pile of "albums" and "EP's" that he has independently wrote, produced, and released.

Early Life
Nathaniel was born April 26, 1988 to Diana and Harold Ogden in Rock Springs, Wyoming and grew up in neighboring Green River. He attended school there and graduated from Green River High School in 2006. In 2007, he married Brittany Ogden.

Music Background
"Nat" was introduced to the guitar at a young age, as his father regularly played guitar. He started taking lessons when he was in middle school for the instrument, but was never able to get the hang of reading music from sheets, and often stuck with learning songs from guitar tabs.

While working at a local hardware store, Nathaniel was introduced to music production by a coworker who had their own private home studio. He first started with using the software Sony Acid, but would later go on to learn other software. He most notably uses Ableton Live for all his recording and production, with a variety of hardware MIDI controllers to operate.

Although not having any formal training for any instruments other than the six-string guitar, Nathaniel plays a wide variety of instruments semi-comfortably, including Bass, Drums, Piano and Keyed instruments (Synth, Organ, Melodica), Harmonica, and Ukulele. Most of these were all self taught.

After years of contemplating a name to release his music under, he settled on the name Neon Gnats. He states he came up with the name by a dream he had, stating: "There was a person in the dream that was introducing me to others and called me Neon. Nat was added to that, but with a G in the front as it was a common nickname for me from others."

The name has since stuck and is also used as a primary identifying tag for anything he can.

Personal Life
Nat has been married since 2007. He is a fan of video games, especially classic games and the Pokemon franchise. Nat also enjoys ripping crap apart and building whatever he can. Apparently he thought he would take a shot at making a wiki page about himself.

I just want to see how this looks, ok?