The didgeridoo is an ancient Australian Aboriginal wind instrument that is traditionally played to accompany social and ceremonial song and dance. Although simply constructed from termite-hollowed eucalyptus, the didgeridoo is capable of producing a wide variety of sounds, rhythms, and textures utilizing  combinations of complex playing techniques including pursed tones, harmonic manipulation, vocalizations, and rhythmic circular breathing.
 
     Jamie began his study of this unique instrument in 1989 at the University of Washington with world-renowned trombonist/performance-artist Stuart Dempster. In 1990 Jamie and Stuart were joined in their sonic exploration of the didgeridoo by Brian Pertl. Those early sessions in Stuart's office gradually evolved into experimentation with contemporary didgeridoo techniques and multiple didgeridoo performance, eventually resulting in the formation of the group the Didgeri Dudes and two recorded collections of experimental didgeridoo ensemble music, the 1995  debut studio album, Didgeri Dudes: Jamie and Brian, and the 1997 CD, Under the Earth Tones: Ambient Didgeridoo Meditations (with Stuart Dempster). 

Dying Salmon is a solo environmental piece that came to Jamie as he watched a salmon die after spawning in Piper's Creek within the city limits of Seattle, Washington. The instrument played in this recording is a red cedar didgeridoo hand-carved by Jamie. The natural sounds in the background were recorded on DAT by Brian. This song originally appeared on the Didgeri Dudes first album.

     In 1999 as a visiting lecturer at the University of North Texas Jamie began to concentrate on a more soloistic approach to didgeridoo by debuting an ambient spatial performance piece, Stairwell From Heaven in several campus stairwells. He also performed with David Schrader and Tom Clark, both Deans of the College of Music during an Earth Day celebration in the ESAT (Environmental Sciences and Technology) building on the North Texas campus.

    As an Assistant Professor in the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Music at Florida Atlantic University, he has continued to pursue his experimental approach to the didgeridoo with solo performances and new compositions for solo didgeridoo and for didgeridoo with Western instruments. He is currently recording his first solo album as an artist for Florida Atlantic's Wisdom Record Label.

     Jamie is also a didgeridoo maker who views his instrument making as an extension of the compositional process. He has made didgeridoos from bamboo, plastic, and glass, and also hand-carved didgeridoos from a variety of different woods including: red cedar, yellow cedar, maple, and alder. He is also the inventor of the Sewerphone, a tuned saxophone-shaped ABS (sewer pipe) didgeridoo.