[3] Between 1987 and 1997, he played bass guitar in local Blues, Reggae, Funk, and Punk bands in Moscow, Idaho (where he earned a B.F.A.

After releasing a solo industrial CD, AnthroPile: Take (1999), he began an audio engineering internship at Binary Recording Studio in Bellingham.

The music is reminiscent of early Electronic New Age in that it contains many common synthesizer sounds (such as arpeggio beeps and bass pads), yet has an exotic presence due to the use of orchestral and ethnic instruments (such as violins, pipe organs, and African percussion).

Jim Brenholts of Ambient Visions referred to Memories of the Elder as a "hybrid", describing it as possessing "...elements of the Berlin school, pastoral new age, dark ambience and droning minimalism.

"[5] Beginning with the 2020 EP Deep Variants, the AeTopus sound departed from its new-age and pastoral roots, taking on a more experimental, urban feel.