User:Seanphorton

I grew up in the Detroit area and gained exposure to underground electronic music working at an import record store on Woodward Ave. In 1990, I discovered that the Motor City's post-industrial urban decay created an ideal environment for warehouse parties. I began deejaying and going to regular events in Detroit, most notably the initial Plus 8 parties, which helped catapult Detroit Techno globally in the early 90s.

I moved to Seattle in 1996 and ended up on a fishing boat heading to Dutch Harbor. I made enough money fishing in Alaska and Russia, that I was able to put myself through college. I studied audio engineering and marketing at Evergreen State in Olympia Washington (graduated from with a BA in 1999). Evergreen is where I first began creating music using a computer. It is also were I began producing and curating multimedia concerts. Go Geoducks!

In 2002 I took a job offer at the media/branding company PlayNetwork in Redmond Washington (10 miles from Seattle). Over the past decade I've been a catalyst for positive change at PlayNetwork, which has more than tripled in growth over that time. In addition to my roles as technology advisor and brand consultant, I've taken creative lead as music supervisor on dozens of key international clients. In the fall of 2011 I was promoted to Director of Music Services.

Simultaneously, I founded the Decibel International Festival of Electronic Music and Visual Art in 2003. Under my direction as CEO and curator, Decibel has become a unique platform for exposing attendees to leading-edge multimedia art. We celebrated our inaugural festival in 2004 and drew in a modest 2,500 attendance. Each year the Decibel has grown substantially and in 2011 the festival celebrated it's most successful edition to date. Between the festival program and the conference, we brought in over 23,000 attendees over the five-day program (up from 5,000 in 2010).

I love music, film, visual art and technology like only a blue collar, Detroit native living in Seattle during a tech boom could.