He started recording music at the age of 15, after the loan of a beaten Tascam tape deck cracked open the world of multi-track recording. Rough mix tapes followed, looping degraded swatches of guitar and keys over cheap drum machines. The Skytree name found its way onto mixes by accident, yet remained, suggesting a sound both old and new, at once rooted in the Earth and lost in the clouds.
Ten years later, Snyder is still actively crafting that sound (though Tascam has given way to Ableton). Mix tapes have shifted into full EPs, LPs and remixes through labels such as Herb, Benbecula, Earstroke, Tympanik Audio, and Boltfish Recordings. After several relocations, the studio has expanded from old keyboards to an array of instruments that Snyder plays "within varying degrees of mediocrity", including the dulcimer, guitar, bass, pan flute, penny whistle, harp, zither, didgeridoo, djembe, harmonica and the star of the show: a battered toy tambourine he's had since he was three.
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