BETAGEIST is emotional electronica, produced entirely by humans, drawing in an eclectic mix of electronic and rock genres. The name might be interpreted as “preparing to be a ghost” and is the ghost project of Kevin Heber, audio software engineer and product of the University of Miami’s Music Engineering program.

I’ve spent a long career in audio signal processing and tuning the factory sound of popular vehicles in the US, Europe and Asia. The sound I reach for blends other-worldly synthetic instruments with tangible instruments and human voice, analogous to how we might experience the world at its best, caught somewhere between the tenderness of imagination and the starkness of reality.

Influences for the ethereal sound span a colorful spectrum of genres and decades - classic ambient electronica (Tangerine Dream, David Helpling, Carbon Based Lifeforms), instrumental post-rock (All India Radio, Tycho, The American Dollar, Lights Out Asia), organic electronica (Schiller, Helios, Enya), neo-classical (Nils Frahm, Ben Lukas Boysen), and progressive rock (Mike Oldfield, Marillion, Porcupine Tree).