Bill has been a key figure in the development of the emerging style of action drumming. He left his hometown of Niagara Falls, Ontario, to pursue an art education at Fanshawe College in London, Ontario. While there he was an Apprentice Sculptor for Patrick Tiebert and was a regular DJ on the University of Western Ontario's radio art show, Turbulence. He went on to study video, sound, critical theory and ceramics, earning his BFA in Intermedia at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. At The School of the Art Institute of Chicago he received his MFA in Sculpture studying metal casting, performance art, kinetics and robotics. His commissioned permanent installations include the Earth Wheel, a massive interactive mechanical music box for the playground of the Sir Frederick Fraser School for the Visually Impaired in Halifax; and The Wild Ones, three interactive musical totems for the Chicago Children's Museum. While living in Chicago, Bill designed and built instruments for the troupes Bipedal Herd, Mass and Jellyeye, as well as collaborating on the compositions and the choreography. He also designed and built the percussive industrial skyline for Steppenwolf Theater's production of A Clockwork Orange. Since moving to Vancouver, Bill has merged his sculptural background, performance experience, and his unique vision to form SWARM. By bringing together unexpected combinations of materials, methods and media, Bill is creating a new interdisciplinary performance language aimed at the simultaneity of music, movement and mass.

Bill has been a key figure in the development of the emerging style of action drumming. He left his hometown of Niagara Falls, Ontario, to pursue an art education at Fanshawe College in London, Ontario. While there he was an Apprentice Sculptor for Patrick Tiebert and was a regular DJ on the University of Western Ontario's radio art show, Turbulence. He went on to study video, sound, critical theory and ceramics, earning his BFA in Intermedia at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. At The School of the Art Institute of Chicago he received his MFA in Sculpture studying metal casting, performance art, kinetics and robotics. His commissioned permanent installations include the Earth Wheel, a massive interactive mechanical music box for the playground of the Sir Frederick Fraser School for the Visually Impaired in Halifax; and The Wild Ones, three interactive musical totems for the Chicago Children's Museum. While living in Chicago, Bill designed and built instruments for the troupes Bipedal Herd, Mass and Jellyeye, as well as collaborating on the compositions and the choreography. He also designed and built the percussive industrial skyline for Steppenwolf Theater's production of A Clockwork Orange. Since moving to Vancouver, Bill has merged his sculptural background, performance experience, and his unique vision to form SWARM. By bringing together unexpected combinations of materials, methods and media, Bill is creating a new interdisciplinary performance language aimed at the simultaneity of music, movement and mass.