After graduating, he studied jazz guitar at the Musician's Institute in Hollywood, California, where he met subthunk co-founder Alex U'Ren.
[6][7] Neely has been called "a creative and progressively thinking artist",[8] whose eclectic style incorporates everything from electronica[9] to "John Barry-like orchestral atmospherics".
[10] His Creative Commons released album, Not Fit For Human Consumption,[11] contains elements of Morse Code, old educational film clips (courtesy of the Prelinger Archives) and is part of a Geotracking experiment.
[13] Neely co-produced, wrote the screenplay and scored the feature film Dimensions.
An early fascination with sound developed when his father gave him his old reel-to-reel tape machine, with which he made his first experiments in ambient noise.