Zemi music is highly adaptable. It is reliant on its intentions to juristic its form. Inspiration is often sourced from observations of the accidental audio composition of the animal kingdom and urban white noise.

Recent forms span from a fully robotic Indonesian Gamelan, to 8 discreet point sound installations. Zemi musik encompasses the dance floor by pioneering the electronic musical genre Space Haus which combines minimal techno, ambient soundscapes and indigenous rhythmic schemes. It also extends into remote geographical areas through the use of Cicada FM installations which utilizing radio transmitters and portable receivers to form an audio environment.

Instrumentation varies widely within each project and composition. The Instrument pallet includes percussion sets made from household objects, tenor and alto sax with custom effect processing patches, Akai ewi 4000 breath midi controller, ancient hanging gongs and xylophones, bamboo flutes, small stringed instruments from Sulawesi and the Philippians to the Ukraine, and custom made scrap metal instruments. Often Zemi musik incorporates sample-based material. For the better part of 2 decades Zemi17 has compiled a sound archive of recordings from down the street to around the world. He often captures bytes of audio with binaural microphones like a vacationer does photographs. The bytes are refined into building block samples that are manipulated and syncopated. Sample sources range from a diverse collection of cicadas, insect, bird and animal calls to idling engines, shutting doors, objects in transit, and micro cuts of various found noises.

The product of all these forms, methods and instrumentations often is a set of disembodied parts woven together into seamless lush undulating compositions often sprinkled with surprise indefinable ingredients. Some pieces are tossed like salads as shapes maintain their uniqueness in contrast to their counter points, while others pieces become alchemic soups of sound melding diverse elements into unified movements.