Born and raised in the deserts of Arizona, Voris found himself adept at learning new instruments from a young age. After acquiring skills in a handful of wind and brass (trumpet, trombone, flute, saxophone), and adding the guitar to his repertoire, he finally settled on piano as his instrument of choice. On his debut album, The Strange Particle, released in 2010, Voris combined his multi-instrumental abilities with a longtime passion for computing (he learned CBASIC as a child on his grandfather's old portable Osborne 1). By utilizing samples and field recordings through his own computed processes he achieved a very modern multiple-format approach to music, where any sound source was an instrument. Ink 19 described it like this: "As I'm listening to this saucer full of electronic secrets, one thought sticks in my head: "This sounds like some sort of avant-garde soundtrack" ...odd noises and children's toys take us on an amazing journey." The album gained Voris critical acclaim for his composition and recording methods, and won him erudite radio support in the US and the UK. "Sounds so cool..." Nick Luscombe, BBC Radio 3, Late Junction