Michael Davis-Yates makes audio stuff that he really likes. He was raised in Benton Harbor, Michigan as an adopted child of two really cool people. Through them, he developed a real love for music. His dad was a jazz guy. And also, he worked with his vocal group. His mom was the president of our church choir for as long as I can remember, music was always a big part of my life.
As a kid, Michael was kind of an oddball nerd, and spent a lot of time alone as an only child, even though I had pretty hardcore group of friends in his neighborhood. He always found time to find things out by breaking electronics by accident and then taking them apart with a screwdriver to see what was inside. He blew up his first speaker with too much power from an amplifier. The smell of the electronic smoking and the impact of the driver blowing out was pretty cool, and he wanted to knkow more and kept at it.
Michael developed his Cstm Math site for his speaker building. A lot of his boombox work now has been based around vector recreations of retro boomboxes, or imagination stuff that pops out. He works with plywood mostly. Laminated plywood is his favorite thing to work with, stacking the layers of Baltic birch to get a really cool edge effect. He also works for a company that builds studio monitor speakers for professional recording studios and DJs at night and on weekends.