Damian Taylor

Damian created a Max MSP patch called Woodpecker via the Cycling 74 website. The patch was designed after conversations with Arcade Fire, and it creates fast 16th note midi sequences from keyboard input. It allows the performer to bring a very electronic feel into a live ensemble, free of set tempos and click tracks. There are options to allow performers to vary the feel of the sequence, play triplets, and explore various arpeggiation styles.

Taylor's family relocated to New Zealand in 1987. Taylor moved to London in 1997. He spent a decade based in the UK where he established his career as an engineer and programmer, working with producers and mixers such as Guy Sigsworth, Neil McLellan, Adrian Bushby, Pascal Gabriel, Al Clay, Jim Abiss, Steve Osborne, Cameron Craig, and Tom Elmhirst, and artists such as UNKLE, Adam Freeland, and The Prodigy. Taylor regularly worked at studios such as Strongroom, Olympic, Whitfield Street, Metropolis, The Townhouse, Chiswick Reach, Rockfield, and The Pierce Rooms.

Taylor worked as a co-producer on the film soundtrack for Jonathan Glazer's first feature film, Sexy Beast (2000).

Taylor's Grammy-nominated projects include Best Alternative Album for Björk's Vespertine (2001) and Volta (2007), Best Dance Album for The Prodigy's Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned (2004), and Best Remix for Sarah Vaughan's "Fever" Adam Freeland Remix (2005).

After working and travelling full-time with the Icelandic singer Björk from 2005 and 2011 on two albums and an extended world tour, Taylor settled in Montreal, where he custom-built his own studio, Golden Ratio, in the city's Mile-End neighbourhood. The studio was designed with acoustician John Brandt.